Some people are afraid to use potentially germ-filled public restrooms as stay-at-home restrictions begin lifting. That's boosting sales of products that offer creative alternatives.
Loath to risk the germs in a public restroom, if they can even find one that's open, many are limiting their outings while others are getting creative.
"I can't imagine it would be popular if someone saw me leaving my presumed viral sheddings somewhere in their petunias," he said with a laugh. So he changed his route and finally found a hospital that did let him in. "I woke up early one morning and all of a sudden, ding, it occurred to me. Ick! Nasty!!" she recalled."There are hundreds of people going through there every day, and I didn't want to do that.""It's miserable. Disgustingly miserable," said Dr. Greg Poland, professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Some businesses are trying to adapt by installing touch-free doors, faucets and hand dryers, for example. Or they're switching to touch-free paper towel dispensers to avoid the possibility of hand dryers blowing coronavirus through the air — another potential, though not yet proven, risk. But that would take more money than many businesses would want to invest, and more time than many people can wait, including Cheryl Bowlan.Bowlan is one of a growing number of women who have bought a portable urinal called the Feminal. It's an ergonomically correct canister with a screw cap, designed by urology nurse Linda Asta. Once a niche product for outdoorsy types or bedridden patients, it's now a mass-market, high-demand item.
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