Health concerns with entry procedure

[tiggerdad]

Oh I have no doubt that the original poster was a troll, but at least we get a thread for entertainment purposes. For those of you who got pregnant from the turnstiles, I swear I was at another park that day. My two daughters are expensive enough!

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[luvthemouse71]

You're totally right! What about those people who fart on their seats and then you ended up seating on their smelly seat and the bottom half of your clothes ends up smelling and people will think it was YOU who farted*?! Oh the humanity, will someone think of the children??? * this was an actual concern of mine when I was a 5 yo!

Hey! You aren't by chance related to a certain fart obsessed DISer are you ??!!

 

[Sandy Fisher]

I have a close friend who is as sweet as she can be. She and her husband have run very successfully a couple small businesses and can retire in comfort. However, she has just this side of a phobia about germs in public.
She is probably Bath and Body Works best hand sanitizer customer. She carries them with her all the time. If she eats out, she uses it before she eats. If she touches the ketchup bottle or anything like that, she uses it again. And so on.
We carry hand sanitizers too, but I honestly never gave a thought to the finger scan. The bathrooms, yes, and I'm glad that Disney for the most part has the designed hallway entrances to the bathrooms where you don't usually have to touch a door. Likewise the automatic flushing and so on.
There are thousands of surfaces at Disney that people really can't avoid touching. I couldn't believe when I read the original post.
Heavens, don't stop with the finger scan worries. There are many more and they're waiting for you everywhere.

 

[minnie mum]

I agree, and there should be someone in all the restrooms wiping each commode after every use.

This whole thread is hilarious. Brings to mind the old "foot flushing toilet" thread. Anybody else think that the OP is a foot flusher?

 

[Tamiami]

And those aliens abducting guests and conducting medical experiments on them, then putting their shrunken remains on sticks and jamming them into It's a Small World...

BAHAHAHAHA! That just made my day.

 

[Tamiami]

FWIW, I don't think OP is a troll, I think it was a joke, and he/she is sitting reading these and cackling away..... =D

 

[Tamiami]

I have a close friend who is as sweet as she can be. She and her husband have run very successfully a couple small businesses and can retire in comfort. However, she has just this side of a phobia about germs in public.
She is probably Bath and Body Works best hand sanitizer customer. She carries them with her all the time. If she eats out, she uses it before she eats. If she touches the ketchup bottle or anything like that, she uses it again. And so on.

I have a friend AND a co-worker who are like this......And they and their children are the sickest people I know! As in, they are SICK at least once a month. Me, I'm happy go lucky, touch whatever I damn well please, probably (accidently!) put my finger in my eyes a hundred times a day, and I'm rarely ill (knock on Pinocchio). Hmmmmmm......

 

[LucyBC80]

This whole thread is hilarious. Brings to mind the old "foot flushing toilet" thread. Anybody else think that the OP is a foot flusher?

You better believe they are! Or they expect to be followed by a CM whose whole job is to flush they toilet for paying customers, right after they clean the whole cubicle so you can use it with the knowledge that no germs will harm you while you pee.

 

[BadgerGirl84]

FWIW, I don't think OP is a troll, I think it was a joke, and he/she is sitting reading these and cackling away..... =D

Agreed.

 

[sersee05]

Honestly, it crossed my mind when I saw hundreds of people putting their nasty fingers in the fingerprint things. I thought it was gross and was concerned about illness.

The problem is everyone is so selfish and only thinks about themselves. I for one am not that way. If you see me in line....get behind me. I think about others .

After I put my finger on that thing, I lick the sensor clean. Voila!

 

[Brian Noble]

I have a friend AND a co-worker who are like this......And they and their children are the sickest people I know!

This is also why e.g. folks from the US can't drink the water in some other countries without getting sick, but folks who grew up in those countries have no problem drinking it. They've developed immune systems that respond to and fight off those specific pathogens from a lifetime of exposure---starting in the womb. You don't want to over-protect your own immune system.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

As anyone thought about how disgusting it is with the finger scans? People coughing into their hands and wiping and picking their noses. Disney should actually wipe off the scan pad after every guest enters. It seems like a major health hazard to me. Germs can be easily passed from person to person. A person with a cut with AIDS could spread it to someone else unknowingly.

It would not take any additional time for the cast
Member to wipe off the pad with disinfectant after entry.

Very surprised the government hasn't stepped on this.

Just for the record.......these scanners have been in use for YEARS.....YEARS and YEARS...

And not only at Disney, various venues use them.

If your concerned just use a wipe afterward, not to mention also after touching everything else outside your home.

AKK

 

[mrsmorgan]

Yes, I agree the government should get involved.

 

[Maggie7313]

honestly, it crossed my mind when i saw hundreds of people putting their nasty fingers in the fingerprint things. I thought it was gross and was concerned about illness. The problem is everyone is so selfish and only thinks about themselves. I for one am not that way. If you see me in line....get behind me. I think about others . After i put my finger on that thing, i lick the sensor clean. Voila!

Love it!

 

[Iowajes]

Just in case the OP is not a troll, since they mentioned it specifically, I recommend they read up on HIV transmission. A touchpoint will NOT transmit HIV. Heck the annoyed HIV+ person standing in the line behind you waiting for you to sanitize the touchpoint can't even infect you if they spit on you directly- it's not a means of transmission!

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/transmission.html

The flu on the other hand very likely can be transmitted through these touchpoints, or you know, the guy who sneezed in line behind you.

The new touch points will be NO different than the turnstyles. Didn't touch those with your hands? Well, make sure you also don't touch your jeans when you take them off at the end of the day, since those touched the turnstyle. (And you probably touched 1,000 other surfaces too.)

 

[Jennasis]

Just in case the OP is not a troll, since they mentioned it specifically, I recommend they read up on HIV transmission. A touchpoint will NOT transmit HIV. Heck the annoyed HIV+ person standing in the line behind you waiting for you to sanitize the touchpoint can't even infect you if they spit on you directly- it's not a means of transmission!

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/transmission.html

The flu on the other hand very likely can be transmitted through these touchpoints, or you know, the guy who sneezed in line behind you.

The new touch points will be NO different than the turnstyles. Didn't touch those with your hands? Well, make sure you also don't touch your jeans when you take them off at the end of the day, since those touched the turnstyle. (And you probably touched 1,000 other surfaces too.)

The HIV infected person would have to be actively bleeding from their finger and the next person in line would need to have some open cuts (technically microscopic ones would be enough) on the finger they use. Even in such a case, the transmission rate is about 1 in 1000 (according to the infectious disease specialist I spoke to back in September after a particularly frightening health scare).

 

[ShayBells]

I didn't until now!!!! Gross. Good thing I'm hooked to my bottle of Purell.

And now that I keep thinking about it the images are getting worse and worse....

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[ShayBells]

Seriously.. I can picture it now.. A kid goes and picks his nose and than proceeds to scan his finger... That booger gets left behind.. The next person goes and while chatting up the CM doesn't look and sticks it right into that nice slimy big gooy booger from the walking incubator that just left it behind.

Never eat free peanuts from a bar... Just saying.

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[pitterpint23]

Right? I had a major problem with the turnstiles too. They rub on the crotches of millions of people! Talk about getting HIV. Or pregnant!

Be careful.. some of the hot tub water from vista way might be in the air.

Instant twin pregnancy.

 

[LockShockBarrel]

Responding to Bolded part especially: and everyone would then be touching the part to pump/dispense the hand sanitizer...wait a CM could stand there and wipe that off in between each guest....never ending circle

Actually (because I'm just the person that needs to point it out) we have purell dispensers around my work and they're motion activated when you put your hand under them.

Also are we taking bets to see how long it takes Disney to post "Bathroom greeter" and "Flush coordinator" on their jobs website?