Having hand washing products in public spaces ensures that your hands do not have any bad microbes. The main reason people do not use these products so many times per day is the main concept that it is not within arm’s reach. If you are in a public space and there would be more Hand Sanitizer stations, people would be able to disinfect their hands from these terrible microbes. 

We all know of someone who has gotten sick, either a virus, a cold, or the flu. Usually people may not show initial symptoms but they are sick. If a sick person were to go to a park to meet a friend and there were an abundance of hand sanitizer stations there, the less risk that the transmission of viruses and the flu can spread. These viruses can be spread through human interaction so hand shaking, etc.

Hand Washing is something that we all need to do. To keep people’s hands clean more public advertising needs to be made. People need to know to always wash their hands for 20 seconds at the minimum but also know that they need to be using the proper products. While using a scented hand sanitizer may have a nice smell it may not help at all. People should be aware of which products are recommended for hand washing. This may be a small solution but more needs to be made. When you walk through New York City streets you do not really find any place where you can sanitize your hands unless you are indoors. Having hand washing products in many streets can dramatically decrease your chances of getting any unwanted microbes in your hands.

While having more accessibility to these hand washing products are necessary it is important that people also consider sanitizing their hands multiple times per day. Of course 100 percent of people will not be sanitizing their hands multiple times per day but if more people did the chances of people interaction such as handshakes can lead to the chances of exchanges of unwanted microbes through the hands. Remember these microbes are in people’s hands but they can not be visually seen with the human eye. 

Today, we don’t even need to think about washing our hands, it has become a thing we do everyday. Public Spaces are the most important setting in which hand washing should be more implemented as there is more interaction with people and surface microbes.  The necessity of washing your hands is largely regarded as common knowledge now, but in many communities and, shockingly in many public spaces you can not find a place to sanitize your hands. This may be due to lack of plumbing but other hand washing products are available to ensure cleaning in the hands. 

Hand Washing products are always recommended to be used to sanitize hands by the Center for Disease Control. Another problem among people is what type of hand washing product they should use. The CDC recommends that hand washing products should have 70 percent of rubbing alcohol when using sanitizers and using unscented products. The CDC did a study in which they compared different brands of unscented hand sanitizer with scented ones and they found that the unscented had more percentage of rubbing alcohol them the brands with scented hand sanitizers.