Yes, you are, if you want your point considered seriously. The outside of the diaper (even if we go back to the “without other clothing on”) does not, in the ordinary order of events, contact fecal matter. The inside may, but the outside is not the inside.
Look, if a sterile set of surgical instruments can be wrapped in a nonsterile cloth so that the nonsterile nurse can drop them onto the sterile field, and the sterile instruments touching the “contaminated” cloth are still sterile, then there’s no logical reason why the outside of a diaper should be considered contaminated because the inside may be. E. coli is not tunneling through an inch of padded fluff and paper.
S/he just knows that it’s true. Like how you can get AIDS from a toilet seat or from shaking hands with someone with HIV. It’s, like, common sense. His/her post is the cite.
I see in my absence that you parents are still trying to justify being lazy. I really do hope that somebody else teaches your children consideration for others.
Thats rather a silly argument, sterile sets of surgical instruments dont have flatulence.
Flatulence consists of fluidic particles amongst other things and gets through diapers.
How do we know this ? because buds in our mouths and nostrils detect them when they are released.
Putting it in simple terms when your baby shits itself or even farts we can smell it.(And part of the smelling process believe it or not is taste)
Maybe some of the parents are happy to eat off of a surface that a baby has sat on shitting, pissing and farting whether its wearing a diaper or not.
But the rest of us do mind.
What you do in your own homes is up to you, but hygiene in public is a responsibility that you have even if you do think that your baby is incredibly cute.
The fact that you think your little darling is a gift to mankind doesn’t mean that everyone else has to put up with your poor hygiene and lazy parenting.
Wriggle and writhe as much as you like you know that its the truth of it, and if you don’t then …well what do you think of your competence as a parent?
If you have a valid counterpoint to my statement then by all means tell us it.
But please don’t attribute silly statements like the ones above to me, or otherwise try to put words in my mouth, because this only demonstrates that you have no factual basis whatsoever to counter me.
Although I usually don’t work in the job I am a qualified health and safety proffessional and a member of the Institute of Occupational Health and Safety.
I’m not sure I understand your argument here. Are you saying that farts carry life-threatening bacteria? If so, then doesn’t it stand to reason that, since we can smell adult farts as well, adults can also contaminate everyone?
Or are you simply arguing that, since we can smell farts, that means bacteria can also escape from Baby Ass Island? If that’s what you’re claiming, then I hope you didn’t expect us to overlook the fact that you’ve conflated “farts can escape” with “bacteria can escape.” And I trust you know that the molecules in farts that make them smelly are orders of magnitude smaller than even the smallest bacteria. And, of course, escape from the diaper is just step one in a chain that leads to sickness. You haven’t even attempted to address how many bacteria escape, how many of them cause illness, how long they can survive outside of the moist, warm, and dark environment of the diaper, what effects the residual bleach on the table can have on the bacteria, how long baby has to sit on the table to transmit an appreciable number of bacteria, how long your food or utensils have to touch the table to pick up these bacteria, how many can penetrate the skin or survive in the human mouth, not to mention run the gauntlet of the human immune system…
In short, if the question is “Can babies cause sickness by sitting on a table?” your answer is “Babies fart. QED.”
I’m sorry, but that’s not how this works. You don’t get to make up nonsense (see “colonic bacteria around its ass region,” for example) and have it stand as proven until I disprove it. You have to actually prove, or at least give some evidence, for the ridiculous stuff you make up.
I know the usual line is “Don’t quit your day job,” but… maybe you should quit your day job. Try stand-up, perhaps. Or maybe become a palm-reader, where your facility with making shit up might get you somewhere.
putting aside all the business about germs and disease, if it’s inappropriate for an adult to sit on a table (and I say it is) then it’s inappropriate for a child to sit on a table.
There isn’t some magic age where you start teaching children how to behave appropriately, these things should be modeled by the parent from the very beginning.
If I came across an adult wearing Depends and sitting on a table, I would call the authorities to have the person returned to his or her care facility.
Your standard is that from the very beginning, the only behavior appropriate for children is that which is appropriate for adults? Really? I’m afraid those of you on the other side on this whole issue are living in some crazy alternate reality, where Mr. Spock has a goatee and hates kids.
