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In reply to the discussion: parents change diaper in starbucks. cops called [View all]susanna
(5,231 posts)I ask because your assertion that the rag was the dirty party in any way is somewhat interesting. As you stated, "those things (our 'eeewwww' triggers) are often quite bad at judging actual danger." Which, oddly enough, is correct, at least in your sense of "eeewwww" at the rag touching the floor. Here's why: most rags, in food service establishments, are immersed until use in a potent cocktail of sanitation chemicals that kill a wide variety of microbes on very short contact. These chemical solutions are designed to be broad-spectrum safety measures in foodservice, and they kill most microbes in very short order.
So, a question to you - are you equating a rag containing a regulated, potent, microbe-killing solution with an unregulated, untreated feces-loaded diaper? Please advise.