Amen, sister (or brother)! Most of the squat toilets I saw in multi-stall public bathrooms were disgusting. Gross, disgusting, wet, boggy. I couldn’t wait to get back to the hotel room for a good washlet.
Back to the OP: Yeah, I don’t understand, either. Wipe the seat off if it looks wet or recently wet. Schmear it with alcohol rub from your personal bottle if you’re that worried about germs. What? If you’re THAT worried about germs and you were logical, you’d be carrying your own bottle of alcohol rub. You don’t want to catch someone else’s germs while trying to disinfect your own hands, right? They may have just touched a naked toilet seat.
would you prefer to step or sit on where turds used to be?
nearly all public toilets here include a stall designed for the disabled.
like i said, while that may be the ostensible reason for washing your hands, the actual reason would be something else. i don’t know what it is exactly, but let’s look at people with long fingernails mentioned above. they may be conscientious about washing their hands but they might not exactly be worried about what’s under the fingernails so long as it looks clean. they probably aren’t worried about kissing strangers at all.
One day in the future the stalls will be watertight and after you leave and shut the door, the entire stall will flush, dousing everything with a rush of water that escapes through the floor.
Of course it will be amusing when a stall occasionally malfunctions and soaks someone to the bone.