having to work within stone’s throw of a vending machine that i have to deal with people complaining about its fucking bullshit all the time, i feel like this sign is similar to the “whatever you do, DON’T go to scihub and download all your articles for free” “warning” that professors tell their students
It’s more,“please don’t put the thing you put in people’s digestive systems into the food dispenser; that’s disgusting.” People have caught c-diff, vre, h-pylori, and the vowel hepatises from improperly cleaned GI-scopes.
Well the patients and families use them too and insurance doesn’t reimburse for hospital acquired infections so a patient catching something from the hospital means their care gets put down as money the hospital won’t get back.