Norovirus in a wilderness setting

[ST911]

Noro/GI/etc is a bigger topic of wems conversation recently. Basically, more people overall, newcomers in general or c19-people avoiding others, low trail skills and awareness, "but nature is clean", lots of trail-nice.

[Cory]

I remember hearing there were wipes to use after bjj/grappling to prevent ringworm and staph. Anyone know what those are?

In my youth the nastiest bathrooms were usually at horse auction houses and the county fair. Dirty rooms with a piss trough and walls covered in ancient whitewash. Similarly both places has greasy burger joints.

I wonder if viruses were rampant then as well, or if our constituion was somehow hardier with less nonsense in our diet. Maybe both.

[JHC]

and other venues with porta-potties

EF that. I don't believe in them!

[Cookie Monster]

Not all hand sanitizers are created equal: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles...22.869087/full

Nothing besides bleach beats straight ethanol as a general disinfectant. And even then I prefer ethanol, because it has less chemical reactions with stuff, rapid evaporation times, and the fumes dissipate quickly.

I just found 15 gallons of 190 proof ethanol from the 1990’s cleaning out a shed a work.

No current uses so it might follow me home, probably used in processing water quality/fecal coliform samples back in the day.

Found an old husky 288 and 266 chainsaws as well.