If you’ve ever used a hand blow dryer in a commercial bathroom anywhere, and you had just a tiny bit of basic common sense, you realized that the thing was blowing crap everywhere. Four years ago the literalness of the word “crap” was fully realized as a study was done showing that the hand dryers blew fecal bacteria everywhere. Interestingly enough, hard core left wing Newsweek published a damning article on the issue.
For some odd reason the article didn’t mention the specific and obvious fact that it’s not just your hands that get the fecal bacteria blasted on them, it’s your entire body including your face. Given the past almost two years of mask wearing, whether mandated or not, and with such zeal and abject fear by many on the left, how is it that all of these things haven’t been replaced everywhere by now???
On top of everything else, hand blow dryers usually also mean that there are no paper towels in the bathroom, so there’s no way to open the door on your way out of the bathroom without touching the handle that all the non hand washing slobs have been touching. Of course physically wiping your hands with a paper towel is much better at removing any residual pathogens and contaminants than a blast of air as well. And both of these facts were blatantly obvious before any airborne virus scares, so how the hell did these things ever get installed to begin with???
The answer to that question is mostly “save the trees” greentard types. The kind of people that have no clue. They have no understanding that of course lumber companies and pulp and paper companies have no desire to go out of business down the road, so of course they are managing forests and replanting trees such that they will have raw materials decades and even centuries down the road. A greentard is blind to that sort of thing, just like they are blind to something so simple as blasting air onto a commercial bathroom floor is going to also blast bacteria and viruses up off that floor and into the air for people to breathe.