Infographics I wish people would make publicly available:
- How to sanitize a personal blender.
- How to sanitize an air fryer.
- How to disinfect a personal blender.
- How to disinfect an air fryer.
- How to disinfect various electronic devices and peripheries (keyboard, mouse, gamepad, controllers).
Sanitize and disinfect are two different things: Sanitize is to clean, disinfect is to kill all the germs and bacteria.
Sanitize = Make clean.
Disinfect = Kill the germs and bacteria.
I would like a safe to use disinfectant.
Cats are very susceptible to accidental poisonings caused by people using the wrong cleaning agents. Dogs too are vulnerable to things humans are not. And then there’s the lack of long-term testing performed on some publicly available products. (Scary when once popular widespread products disappear, and then you find out years later they were sued into oblivion because of all the cancer they caused.)
I firmly believe there are some things that should not be available to the public. Not without some safety warnings being given.
You can buy a big jug of poison AT THE GROCERY STORE. And that stuff will be sold in the aisle containing household cleaning products. It might be right next to the dish soap. It will have a danger message on the back, but the font will be super tiny and most consumers won’t even realize that it’s a dangerous product.
When something spills and I just want to pull out a biodegradable environmentally safe wipe, I don’t want to find out afterward that I should have been wearing thick rubber gloves, there should have been a follow-up wipe with a wet cloth or sponge, and nobody should have used that surface for the next thirty minutes.
When something spills, I want to be able to wipe it up and move on with my life. I don’t even want to have to wash my hands afterward if I don’t want to,
I believe people should have the freedom to make horrible life-altering decisions if they have all the information necessary. If someone wants to go wrestle sharks or crocodiles or bears, as long as the animals are enthusiastic to be there, the animals aren’t getting hurt, and the animals don’t face reprisals if they kill a human, then I don’t care.
Someone wants to stay in a hotel? Someone wants to eat at a restaurant? Someone wants to rent a plane? Someone wants to visit a haunted house? Someone wants to go sky diving? Not my business. Whatever happens happens. People take risks with their lives when they cross the street.
What I care about is if the place they go to is dangerous. The airplane is missing a landing gear. The restaurant hasn’t had a visit from competent health inspectors for years. The cook doesn’t know there’s a difference between sodium chloride, potassium chloride, and sodium bromide.
A man consulted a chatbot about replacing table salt (sodium chloride) from his diet and asked for substitutions. It suggested sodium bromide, which led to him suffering bromide toxicity, because sodium bromide is not a viable salt substitute. You want to use potassium chloride. Or if you want an umami flavor and you’re not sensitive to it, you could just sprinkle a little MSG on top.
Sodium bromide is not considered a food. It is used for disinfecting pools and is bought to be mixed with other chemicals.
You would have to go to like a science supply store to get sodium bromide. That or you could buy it from a pool supply store or from like some careless dude selling it in baggies off the Internet.
And yes. The very famous chatbot offered incredibly terrible and nearly deadly advice. But the guy didn’t double check anything. Didn’t follow up by reading the articles cited. Didn’t make a correlation between his weird negative health stuff happening to the big diet change he recently made in his life.
And I’m like a frog in a well. I can only see the sky far above me and imagine what’s on the outside. The methods and motivations of people sending out signals from their own wells and their own origins. Why someone would do what they would do, and why I would do something different.
I would think "I need to cut salt out of my diet" and realize that it’s the sodium that is harmful. And I would switch to potassium chloride–though some people say it has a metallic aftertaste, and maybe I wouldn’t use it for long–while also searching for other salt substitutes. Ensuring that all of them were food.
I would never consider that anything I have to buy from the cleaning section of the store is safe to eat.
Even if it were really food-grade, being stored around chemicals would make it not for safe consumption. Who knows if that bag of road salt wasn’t doused in spilled cleaning liquid? Even if the road salt was untouched inside, handling the bag on your kitchen counter could result in diarrhea at the least.
Ordering things I plan to eat from random people on the Internet is a no go for me. And if it’s bought from a big official Internet store, I would not eat anything that comes from the pools and hot tubs supply section.
Yet there are some people that get told something and they don’t ask any questions. They accept the first thing they are told, and then they’re hopping in the car on the way to the store.
That man ate poison for three months before he went to the doctor.
He never thought "Is it my new salt substitute that’s making me have all these symptoms?"
And that makes me think that he was suffering from so many bodily ills that he was ignoring that he didn’t notice the new symptoms at first. Not until the bromide toxicity got so high he could barely walk, he was having hallucinations, and his skin was breaking out with acne.
That or he buys and uses so many "supplements" that he couldn’t recognize anything weird or new in his diet because everything he ingests is weird or new. Because supplements don’t require FDA approval, which means you could get a bottle of powder as a supplement that might contain things you definitely shouldn’t be ingesting.
People were grinding and pressing their own vitamin pills in their garages. And maybe you bought some bottles of pills from them. And maybe you got below the daily value of vitamin per pill or maybe you got WAY ABOVE the daily value of vitamin per pill.
Some damage is cumulative. And different cumulative damages all gathered together in one body can result in a shortened life span.
I worry my cat will get into something and she will die in my arms. That or she will suffer so badly that I would have to take her to the vet and put down. And that it would be my fault because I used the wrong cleanser, the wrong essential oil, the wrong flower in the tabletop bouquet.
So I get how painful it would be for some family out there to have to go through the grief of losing their wife and mother to a highly aggressive cancer.
And I wonder if it would be even more painful if they found out that the beginning cause of the cancer was some powerful toxic cleaning agent that comes in wipes and that put out TV ads where the person was using the wipes to casually clean up a spill AND THEY WEREN’T WEARING GLOVES. And nobody that ever used the product wore gloves when they used it even though the back of the container says GLOVES MUST BE WORN because the person in the commercial showed them how to use the wipes.
There needs to be more infographics and edutainment because people need it.
And it should be accurate information provided free to the public.
Because people need it.
Some people think that Vitamin K, a necessary vitamin for the human body, is the same thing as potassium chloride because potassium is the "K" element and potassium chloride has "potassium" in it and potassium is K. Therefore they think people should not receive Vitamin K shots because it’s going to kill them because potassium chloride is used in lethal injections.
And they’re not out there being mean people. They just don’t know what they’re talking about.
We can save them from embarrassment (and health damage) by making helpful, useful, plainspoken infographics and making them freely available to everyone.
At least that way their children can look around their houses and not use industrial level cleansers as though they’re bottles of scented water.
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