One study estimated that in 2015, just 26.2% of global bathroom visits with potential “faecal contact” were followed by hand washing with soap. While 10 years is hopefully some kind of record, observant bathroom-users everywhere will already have noticed that non-hand-washers are alarmingly widespread. That same year, the Republican Senator for North Carolina suggested that requiring restaurant employees to wash their hands was a classic example of over-regulation. (They both later said they had been joking). Then he said: “ I don’t think I’ve washed my hands for 10 years.” Cue a collective wrinkling of noses, and a frenzy of articles about what might be on your hands after a decade.ĭisconcertingly, Hegseth is in good company in 2015 the actress Jennifer Lawrence dropped the bombshell that she almost never washes her hands after going to the bathroom. 'My 2019 resolution is to say things on air that I say off air…' – the famous last words of Pete Hegseth last year, just before he revealed a secret that set the internet alight.Īt the time, Hegseth was best known as a Fox News presenter who had a sprinkling of controversial views.
