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Q: How many times per day do you wash your hands here?
Now let's be honest......I would have to say around 5 or 6 times.
10 years 50 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
As a professional nurse, I learnt a simple rule: Hands not above shoulders.
That means: You should not touch your lips or your nose with your (unwashed) hands. This will avoid smear infection, which is the most common way to catch a disease.
From this background, you know that the respirator masks, which can be frequently seen in China, are rely helpful: They do not prevent that "flying" viruses are breathed in (as many Chinese think), but they prevent that the user will unnoticed touch his mouth 
As my professor said: "Viruses cannot fly, they are no angles"
Greetings from Kärnten
Liese
Hulk:
This guy/gal offers professional advice in response to an idiotic question... and we downvote him in favor of... other idiotic posts. Seems like this site has lost it's purpose.
Never; I wear rubber gloves all the time, and for double safety I have them filled with soapy water and taped to my arms. Not just a pretty face, my friend.
Is it me, or a lot of posts were deleted, but not the original spam one?
There's something fishy going on here.
But here, I'll play by the rules: I would wash my hands a few times a day when I was in China. There.
Traveler:
No. A lot of posts seem to be getting deleted on many threads, but the spam or troll questions remain.
philbravery:
mostly mine
I think somebody cant hack it and went stool pigeon
poor didums
maybe his English teacher will give him a hug
TedDBayer:
I see some of my funniest stuff just gets harmonized and maybe I can be a little insulting, but I do it with humour, no way to really know if I'm kidding. To quote Robin Williams ''If they can't take a F* then joke them.''
At least 40 times a day.
Every time I go to the washroom (and I crap at least 6 times a day in China).
Every time I come home. After I handle cash and always after shaking hands.
And of course after reading one of your dumb questions so I can feel clean again.
Having taken many cross contamination and first aid classes, I do not even open doors without covering my hand with my shirt. You can get hepatitis from sitting on the same place where someone previously urinated and then using your hands to stand back up. Then later you go to scratch your eye........ Depending on the strain hepatitis can live outside of the body anywhere from 16 hours to a week. When living in a toilet always wash your hands.
