Is it safe to use a public restroom?

[123flower]

My husband and I have plans to go to the zoo. We haven’t been anywhere crowded since the coronavirus, but now a lot of places are open again. Then I realised I probably have to use the public restroom in the zoo. I’m scared to get corona on the toilet. Is it safe to go to a public restroom? What if someone before you has corona? My husband who isn’t scared, says we have to wash our hands and also use handgels and then it will be okay. But I’m still worried, but I don’t want to ruin our plans.

 

[Richard T]

I think you have a misconception about COVID. You greatest chance of getting it is from the air. Breathing might exhale some but talking and coughing would put it in the air from anyone infected. So when you go in to the restroom, if it is in the air you might them breathe it in. A mask will help but most are not foolproof. So there is a risk from any indoor space and even less risk from an outdoor space.

Surface contact is possible but wash your hands and you should be free from that. I also generally would change and shower when I get home from any public indoor space I have been.

 

[hluke]

Hello 123flower.

Here are some relevant verses:

Philippians 4:6
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

1 Peter 5:7
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Matthew 6:25
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Psalm 91:3
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
and from the deadly pestilence.


Matthew 10:28
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.


The last verse actually helped with my Arachnophobia.

Enjoy your day!

 

[splish- splash]

The thing with the virus is, you can never tell who has it and who doesn't. I agree with hubby about washing hands and whatnot. Above
all though, never stop trusting in God.

 

[com7fy8]

I put hand sanitizer on toilet paper, I think, and used that to rub a seat, and I looked to make sure that all of the seat's top looked wet so I knew I had put on enough.