Stop Touching Your Face

I use self checkout a lot in part because so many cashiers lick their fingers to help them open plastic bags that aren't opening promptly. This is maybe less of a problem since the pandemic, but some cashiers do this so habitually, they don't notice that they do it and will deny it if you say anything about it to them. And will be offended if you ask them to use the hand sanitizer that most cashiers have at their station since the pandemic. Businesses should expressly make this a policy and work on establishing protocols for how to handle bags that are being difficult to open without licking your fingers as the solution.

In some contexts, untouchable is a high status thing.  Commoners are typically not supposed to touch kings and queens and as someone with a serious, incurable medical condition and compromised immune system, I've often thought that my life would be vastly better if ordinary people got their bodily autonomy respected similar to kings and queens.  We don't actually need servants to handle THAT.  Most Walmart bathrooms have no doors and are spacious and provide a public space where strangers can avoid touching each other for germ control reasons.  1. You need space designed to serve that goal.  2. And you need social and cultural practices that support that, such as bowing to show respect instead of shaking hands to greet people.  Multiple older cultures with dense populations bow in greeting (instead of shaking hands), have spicy cuisine and other practices in line with my views of germ control. I'm guessing morons like MERIKA get a Darwin Award at some poin...