Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now we're serious

most restrooms in NYC have only hand dryers, i think?

but really I just light my Bernie Sanders votive candle to ward off sickness

i wash my genitalia after touching it with my hands

Always good to give it a quick rub down

proper hand washing is a more effective antiviral than sanitizer gel

when proper hand washing requires me to make contact with a ton of skanky fomites, I’ll take my chances with the expensive alcohol gel

ideally you apply the sanitizer to your hands and penis, then wash hands, then open door, then use hand sanitizer station directly outside the door

proper hand washing is a more effective antiviral than sanitizer gel

This is misleading, because "proper hand washing" means something like two minutes of sudsing and scrubbing up to your elbows, and no one does that. There was an interesting New Yorker article about Purell (and the like) several years back:

Gojo has never marketed Purell as an anti-soap; indeed, the company also sells some of the most widely used soaps in health care, food service, and other industries. But, starting in the nineteen-nineties, a number of studies demonstrated that alcohol hand rubs could be more effective than ordinary washing. In 2002, the C.D.C., after reviewing the accumulating science, rewrote its “Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings.” The C.D.C.’s report concluded that alcohol-based products were “more effective for standard handwashing or hand antisepsis . . . than soap or antimicrobial soaps,” and that alcohol-based products were better at killing drug-resistant pathogens than even soaps and detergents containing powerful antibacterial agents. Seven years later, the World Health Organization issued similar guidelines, and said that alcohol rubs should now be considered the preferred cleaning agent for all medical workers, including surgeons, whose hands are not visibly soiled.

In 2005, the Army, in conjunction with Gojo, conducted a study of the efficacy of Purell outside health care. (The military is a rich source of subjects for such studies, because it consists of large cohorts of closely matched individuals who do what they’re told.) Historically, illness and infection have felled more soldiers than weapons have. The Army had already imposed a stringent hygiene protocol for new recruits, but illness-related absenteeism during boot camp remained high and was costly. Arbogast, who worked on the study, told me that the Army “didn’t want soldiers to get partway through the training and then get knocked out due to illness.” Gojo installed Purell wall dispensers in mess halls and other strategic locations, and designed a bottle that would fit in a uniform pocket, survive a parachute jump, blend in with camouflage, and not stand out when viewed with a night-vision scope. (It looks like a small green hand grenade.) After thirteen weeks, the Army found that two test battalions had experienced forty per cent less respiratory illness than the control group, forty-eight per cent less gastrointestinal illness, and forty-four per cent less lost training time. The military is now a significant Gojo customer. Michael Dolan, who is the company’s vice-president for science and technology, said, “It’s hard to go through boot camp today without being exposed to Purell.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/04/hands-across-america

Yeah that article is the primary inspiration of our household antimicrobial doctrine

Brb, looking for a reason to use "boy who cried Wolf Blitzer" in conversation somehow

yeah 'proper hand washing' that's how i want to spend a half hour of all my remaining days

you people who kiss another human on a regular basis are missing the forest for the trees

we do a lot more than kiss another human.

I kiss people after I’ve been drinking alcohol

maybe ass eating will fall out of millennial fashion for awhile.

this is the future conservatives want

my understanding is the mouth is filthier than the gentle parts

alcoholism vs coronavirus... kinda like every presidential election

they say some people got a case of the 'sac'lys.

yo bref smells sac'ly like yo behind

the tongue and gums are generally the site of pitched battles between sieging bacteria and the most robust defenses the body has to offer, yes

whatever, I work at a university and students are disgusting animals who presumably are all eating ass now(?), so I do indeed spend a lot of time washing my hands thoroughly

do they put their mouths on their desks a lot?

they fucking fall asleep everywhere and drool all over the place, I am kidding they are basically toddlers

I am NOT kidding

I'm more worried about getting them to vote than wash their hands

stop tossin' salad
start studyin' ballots!

It's just a bunch of Sexual Revolution-era pieces he wrote in alt papers in the early 70s. Imho a nothingburger but who knows what will play with the American public:

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8682503/bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-freeman-sexual-freedom-fluoride/

Rereading that 'rape essay' now, it is clearly a feminist commentary on gender roles. This is so stupid.

Finally -- the thread turns into animal ass-eating and hand washing.

It was inevitable.

final stage of grief iirc

as long as i have a mouth
you'll always have a place to sit

Finally received my first piece of campaign literature in the mail, just gue$$$ who from.

the Monopoly guy?

No, I would piss on Mr. Monopoly if he was on fire.

Don't go nuts, just stop eating butts

This is America, the surest way to ensure those numbers go up is to tell people not to do it.

I respect the fact that, as we learned over the weekend, she scared the hell out of Michael Bloomberg long before she handed him his freshly extracted viscera the other night. (She also makes Mark Zuckerberg nervous, which is a very good thing.) I admire also her ability to see past the end of her nose and to recognize that, if she had managed to sink Sanders, she would be the next target of the people who hate the ideas they share and, for that matter, any progressive renaissance in the running of the country.

feminist commentary on gender roles

people absolutely love feigning ignorance or being actually ignorant when it comes to this type of thing

don't even get me into the entire spurious "these people went to a Marina Abramović show and I have absolutely no idea how art works" crap from recent memory

I mean, it's actually anti-pornography. He should totally own this stuff imo.

bloomberg appears goes straight for the russia/sanders thing

warren seems sunk. her argument against sanders is reduced to "we both believe in the same things, but i would be a better president." which very well may be true! but it's not a winner

Coming in here to seek respite from centrist hell at the debate.

Centrist hell is other people

Biden and Nothingness

lol, asked what exactly he is apologizing for when he apologizes for stop and frisk, bloomberg says that he apologizes that "it got out of control", that he cut it by 95%, and that he has met with people of color to learn about "how i can better position myself" in the future. an inspirational story of how he was told to stop doing things, he's a natural

also EW and BS do not believe in all the same things

Especially in foreign policy

t/s: ew vs B.S.

Bernie getting a good workout.

not watching this but is anyone going after biden, the clear #2 at this point, at all

Nope, not yet

Steyer seems too smart to not support universal healthcare. He doesn't right?