r/Glasgow Tools

I’m not suggesting people carry on regardless - I’m suggesting people take extra precautions and follow guidelines, sanitize, don’t hug, kiss, shake hands, avoid sharing food, don’t order salad or anything raw, and generally behave as though infectious microorganisms are around - as they literally always have been from the beginning of human civilisation. There is no industry where people spend so much time training how to avoid cross contamination. How often do office workers sanitise their keyboards? In any kitchen worth its salt, people are trained to constantly sanitise, clean, use different coloured boards and knives for different produce, wash hands constantly. We also learn what temperatures kill microbes effectively, how to use salt, vinegar, pressure to preserve and protect foodstuffs from harmful organisms, all as a matter of standard training for hospitality workers. We have checklists and inspections and procedures constantly in place to avoid making people sick, pandemic or not, and now there are extra measures in place. To suggest that people are putting their own lives and those of others at risk because they go outside is exaggerated. Hygiene is one of the pillars hospitality is built upon, and with added vigilance and help from customers I think a complete boycott of the industry even at a time like this does far more harm than good.