Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by BradC

Think of it like training wheels. Supposedly some large proportion of blokes don't even wash their hands after going to the loo (and I've seen it a lot at large events). This might just be a case of "in sight and in mind" and help promote some hand hygiene.

Or it could be a complete waste of time. It probably won't *hurt* though.

You watch blokes at large events???

Of course it won't *hurt*. But will it help? Maybe, but my question has yet to be answered. Doesn't matter, it was simply a question.

Originally Posted by Eevo

i have answered it.

No, you only think you have.

Originally Posted by johntins

No, you only think you have.

good enough for me.

On the way home from work this afternoon I went into our local Aldi. I expected there to not be toilet paper etc but the locusts had moved on to other goods and about half of the shelves were completely bare, including, for some reason, all of the washing machine powder.

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While I was staring in disbelief one of the other customers came up and told me that the freezers were all empty - and they were, other than odds and ends.

What appears to have happened is that a whole bunch of people went out on Saturday and bought deep freezers and on Sunday they stripped Aldi filling them.

I then wandered into the nearby Bunnings and they confirmed that not only was all hand cleaner and sanitiser gone, so was all of the methylated spirits. Including one guy who walked out with 20 litres ....that gels with something I was told at a barbecue last night, where someone was telling me how to make hand sanitiser using metho and vaseline. The Bunnings staff were saying that metho would wreck your skin, give you excema-like cracks and actually make you more susceptible to infections and I said yes, and it's toxic because of the methanol added to it to make it non-drinkable. And methanol can be absorbed through the skin ...

Originally Posted by johntins

No, you only think you have.

Recommend you reread post 682.

"... And methanol can be absorbed through the skin .....

'Darwin Awards' strike again ?

Originally Posted by Arapiles

and it's toxic because of the methanol added to it to make it non-drinkable. And methanol can be absorbed through the skin ...

Nah, check the MSDS for Diggers "Metho" (the stuff sold at Bunnings). It hasn't been denatured by methyl alcohol for years. These days it's generally denatonium.

Still, the stuff you really want is Isopropyl. I probably shouldn't make sanitiser from the 20L of Methyl I have in the garage, but the Isopropyl is fine. Methyl metabolizes to formaldehyde but the Isopropyl mostly metabolizes to Acetone.

Originally Posted by BradC

Nah, check the MSDS for Diggers "Metho" (the stuff sold at Bunnings). It hasn't been denatured by methyl alcohol for years. These days it's generally denatonium.

Still, the stuff you really want is Isopropyl. I probably shouldn't make sanitiser from the 20L of Methyl I have in the garage, but the Isopropyl is fine. Methyl metabolizes to formaldehyde but the Isopropyl mostly metabolizes to Acetone.

The Isopropyl was all gone too.

Even if metho isn't poisonous it really isn't going to be good for your skin.