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Apr

2012

Grotty cravats and microbial stats: taking aim at "functionless clothing items" in British hospitals - Gossypiboma

The discomfort of the necktie, or the girdle, as a form of attire, is its very significance. As with snaffle bits and hackamores, light but continuous pressure is applied to a region of the body — a constant reminder of your place in the social hierarchy. Are not such functionless clothing items really just tired symbols that are better undone? The cravat when your luck is good: the slipknot when luck runs out. Perhaps we can hope that the hospital ban on the necktie might be extended to other areas, like the increasing restrictions on smoking. We have had great success undermining the noisome reign of tobacco; and gone are the awful stays, bustles and petticoats once imposed on women. Will the cravat's mystique finally be unravelled? Now there's something to take aim at.

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Clothes Hygiene Fashion Bacteria

. "Being well dressed adds to an aura of professionalism and has been correlated with higher patient confidence. Senior physicians and hospital administrators often encourage staff to wear neckties in order to help promote this valuable relationship; but in so doing, they may also be facilitating the spread of infectious organisms." Nurkin added: "While there is no direct evidence to implicate neckties in the transmission of infection to patients, the link between contaminated neckties and the potential for transmission must be considered."
Common items like lanyards, mobile phones and handhelds that medical staff wear or carry with them can spread germs.
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- "The reason people are picking on ties is they tend not to go into the laundry. If you took them home and washed them the way you do your shirt, there wouldn't be any problem." (Obviously Dr. McGeer has not seen what happens to a pure silk jacquard weave Charvet cravat after being thrown into a washing machine.) I
- attaining universal suffrage without an accompanying social revolution prevented ordinary people from achieving their freedom. Instead it forced the ruling elites to make their own depravity universal. The theme is pursued by Theodor Adorno in his Minima moralia: "This is the state to which the ruling consciousness has come — the shameless avowals of the pursuit of extravagant waste and champagne-sipping good times, which were previously the preserve of bemedalled attachés in Hungarian operettas, are now elevated in deadly earnest to a maxim of right living." Hence our tawdry universe of easy money and bored, vicious distraction: voodoo mortgages, video addiction, ridiculous spectacle, mall-formation, and manipulable political apathy. Hence also the snobbery and pitiless conformism of tight cravats and high heels, lavish vacations, real estate, oenophilia, food fads, and, worst of all, liposuction.

Jul

2011

Why Dirty Socks May Be The Answer to Fighting Malaria | The Utopianist - Think Bigger

Dr. Okumu has discovered that malaria-carrying mosquitoes gather on dirty-sock-smell four times more than they gather on humans. So putting in some old socks — or a synthetic equivalent — will make this mosquito-trapping device really effective. Okumu says that feet are one of the key sources of the odor which allows mosquitoes to identify humans.

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Malaria Hygiene Health