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How Important is Hand Washing?
Does hand washing really make a difference? Can I just use hand sanitizer? Take a look at what Jaralee Metcalf, a Behavior Specialist at a public school did with her students this month.
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Jaralee’s social media post and photos, copied and pasted with permission:
We did a science project in class this last month as flu season was starting. We took fresh bread and touched it. We did one slice untouched. One with unwashed hands. One with hand sanitizer. One with washed hands with warm water and soap. Then we decided to rub a piece on all our classroom Chromebooks.
As somebody who is sick and tired of being sick and tired of being sick and tired. Wash your hands! Remind your kids to wash their hands! And hand sanitizer is not an alternative to washing hands!! At all!
This is so DISGUSTING!!!
**All the students touched each piece (of the touched pieces)**
**Results took 3-4 weeks because of preservatives**
**It was plain white bread**
** Editing again to clarify: The control piece wasn’t fresh when we took this picture. It just wasn’t ever touched with naked hands and it was moved immediately from the bread bag to the zip lock baggie (every piece of bread here is from the same loaf and same day)**
**They’re freezer ziplock bags meant for raw meat and they’re sealed tight****We do sanitize our Chromebooks, obviously we did not do that for this experiment 🙄**
**We are an elementary school. Not a fancy CDC lab, so relax a little and WASH YOUR HANDS**
🚨🚨 Again! This is an elementary school classroom experiment, don’t get you panties in a bunch over it. 🚨🚨
**I am in no way trying to make Google Chromebooks look bad, all laptops have germs, the amount is based on the person/people using them and not the brand (can’t believe I need to specify this)**
**Closeups for those concerned about seeing the results**
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Wow! Thank you, and your students, for this experiment, and for allowing us to share it. What we learned here could literally save a life of an individual living with a compromised immune system–immunodeficiency is a real thing, and everyone knows someone, or will know someone, going through cancer treatment, which knocks out the immune system.
This is a fantastic visual, and the fungus grown on the bread is illustrative of the importance of hand washing. We see the fungus and can just imagine the viral and bacterial load each piece of bread is carrying. Our ClO2 gas-vapor treatment knocks out viruses, mold, bacteria, and spores, and our Germ Shield maintains that pathogen-neutral environment for up to 90 days. Non-toxic, green-certified, USDA/FDA/EPA registered and approved for food-contact surfaces without an additional water rinse (as traditional sanitizing wipes require), we can treat and sanitize your entire facility in a matter of hours.
To all educators–thank you! You do good work in a hazardous environment. If anyone wants to get their kids’ classrooms treated, we will help as much as possible with the school to make that happen. There’s no teacher-appreciation gift quite like a sanitized classroom, and it’s great for your child, too.
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