Cell Phones Less Germs
One of the best ways to pass germs around or get germs (aka swine flu) from others is use shared phones. Viruses can live on surfaces like a phone mouthpiece and can easily be transmitted that way. Today I was doing some corporate consulting and was at a branch office. I received a page to call someone and I called them back on my Lightyear Wireless versus their corporate phone system.
When asked why I used my cell phone rather than use their (expensive) business VOIP based system, I just said I needed to walk around. That was only 1/2 true; the other half of the truth was germs. The phones at the place I was working were publicly used phones. By ‘publicly used’ I mean used by many employees. And I didn’t have my bottle of isopropyl alcohol with me!
I have no idea whether anyone at the place cleans the phones or not and I figured I may as well not take a chance. I know where my phone has been and I know whose mouth has been on it!
