First they came for my straws...
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...but coming after my spork is a bridge too far.
Of course, by 2032, I'll probably be eating through a tube in my nose, so for me it's not that big a deal.
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Case-in-point (maybe not government, but Joint)...For years, hospitals used metal cutlery and real plates in hospital cafeterias. Cutlery was washed and put in holders and placed on the cafeteria line. You grabbed a fork, knife and spoon before you got your plate.
Well, that's not sanitary enough. We must use plastic. So they put plastic cutlery in the bins. No, that's not good, either. So, they went to individual wraps, with fork,spoon,knife and napkin in one package. Ah, but that's too expensive. So, now they've gone to individually wrapped plastic cutlery, wrapped in plastic, where you choose what you need from a dispenser.
I'm just a dumb old country boy, but I don't remember any lowering of staff illness rates through the years, no matter which system of cutlery was used. But we were addressing the non-existent problem.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Case-in-point (maybe not government, but Joint)...For years, hospitals used metal cutlery and real plates in hospital cafeterias. Cutlery was washed and put in holders and placed on the cafeteria line. You grabbed a fork, knife and spoon before you got your plate.
Well, that's not sanitary enough. We must use plastic. So they put plastic cutlery in the bins. No, that's not good, either. So, they went to individual wraps, with fork,spoon,knife and napkin in one package. Ah, but that's too expensive. So, now they've gone to individually wrapped plastic cutlery, wrapped in plastic, where you choose what you need from a dispenser.
I'm just a dumb old country boy, but I don't remember any lowering of staff illness rates through the years, no matter which system of cutlery was used. But we were addressing the non-existent problem.
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Case-in-point (maybe not government, but Joint)...For years, hospitals used metal cutlery and real plates in hospital cafeterias. Cutlery was washed and put in holders and placed on the cafeteria line. You grabbed a fork, knife and spoon before you got your plate.
Well, that's not sanitary enough. We must use plastic. So they put plastic cutlery in the bins. No, that's not good, either. So, they went to individual wraps, with fork,spoon,knife and napkin in one package. Ah, but that's too expensive. So, now they've gone to individually wrapped plastic cutlery, wrapped in plastic, where you choose what you need from a dispenser.
I'm just a dumb old country boy, but I don't remember any lowering of staff illness rates through the years, no matter which system of cutlery was used. But we were addressing the non-existent problem.
@Jolly said in First they came for my straws...:
I'm just a dumb old country boy, ...
As if you being a dumb old country boy has any relevance to the issue at hand.
... but I don't remember any lowering of staff illness rates through the years, no matter which system of cutlery was used.
Don't go by memory. Cite actual statistics. Let the data do the talking.
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I think it comes down to money (like most things LOL). I was talking to someone in a US hotel that served the basic breakfast on throwaway silverware, plates, cups etc.
If they wanted to wash it and reuse it, they would require a special dishwasher machine that would be acceptable for commercial usage, different/additional certification for the workers, extra space required for all of this, etc. So, in the end, they figured it was just cheaper and easier to use disposable.
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@Jolly said in First they came for my straws...:
I'm just a dumb old country boy, ...
As if you being a dumb old country boy has any relevance to the issue at hand.
... but I don't remember any lowering of staff illness rates through the years, no matter which system of cutlery was used.
Don't go by memory. Cite actual statistics. Let the data do the talking.
@Axtremus said in First they came for my straws...:
@Jolly said in First they came for my straws...:
I'm just a dumb old country boy, ...
As if you being a dumb old country boy has any relevance to the issue at hand.
... but I don't remember any lowering of staff illness rates through the years, no matter which system of cutlery was used.
Don't go by memory. Cite actual statistics. Let the data do the talking.
- Self-deprecation is an art form, not subject to quantification. Fraught with meaning to those with more than passing knowledge of social interaction, it would of course be like muddy water to your non-existent social palate.
- I do many things by memory. Life is too short - and you are too insignificant - to waste time quantifying speech for normal social discourse.
