Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Stupid Red Eye reader and L rider

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CTA scrubs?
You should do a story about all the hospital workers I see on the Red Line with their scrubs on. This cannot be sanitary or healthy for the commuters or [their] patients.
--Luke Wrobrew, Streeterville


Some jackass (Luke Wrobrew, Streeterville) made a comment about people wearing hospital scrubs who sit on the L.
I would be one of these "unsanitary" people according to this guy. I ride the Red Line.

This is all from a pediatric nurse's perspective.

True, the seats are dirty and you would not want to rub your face in the fabric. I think it's lucky for the patient that we don't use the ass part of our scrub pants to take care of them! With working 12 hour shifts, it's common to not sit for more than 30 minutes a day...and that's not 30 minutes in a row. We're on our feet a lot. So maybe we're sitting down before our shift begins just because it's a long ride in and we're getting ready for a long day on our feet. Or maybe it's the end of the shift and we're filthy and spreading germs for the likes of Luke to touch and rub into their eyes. (Wash your hand you dumb fuck). Hand washing is the key to halting the spread of germs. It's not avoiding the seat on the L.

I'm a nurse. I wash my hands maybe a hundred times during a twelve hour shift. This is just an estimate. It's probably more.

Luke, you're a jackass.

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