Danger of suffocation

Danger of suffocation. Do you remember that warning that always used to be printed on plastic bags, telling you not to pull the bag over your head or let small children play with it? Perhaps you didn't notice, but during Covid, you know, the plandemic, that warning was no longer printed on plastic bags. Plastic bags that were supposed to disappear to protect the earth and still are to this day. Only now you have to pay for the plastic carrier bag, and that carrier bag is of much poorer quality than in previous years. Incidentally, I still use those plastic bags, and some of them are already about 20 years old.

Returning to the subject of pulling a bag over your head, or at least the risk of suffocation when you do this, which gives some people a wonderful thrill, that warning is back on plastic packaging. Yet I keep thinking about the C19 period when videos were shown of people literally having a bag pulled over their heads and being taken to hospital or driven away. Thanks to the foolishness of the media, or rather the intention to scare everyone, it suddenly became perfectly normal to pull plastic bags over the heads of patients labelled with covid to protect the rest of the world. I wonder how the medical staff at that hospital feels today. Ashamed? And what about all the other people who lashed out and despised others, or have they all died by now?
I don't like hypocrites, and what I saw happening during this period was hypocrisy of the highest order. How is it possible that all these aggressive, downright hostile people, full of hatred and sowing hatred, simply carried on as if nothing had happened?

Even all those ridiculous cleaning measures have completely disappeared. The average person is dirtier and more unhygienic than ever. A good example is public toilets. Those in schools have always been downright filthy and often there isn't even any toilet paper, soap and water available. But I won't even get started on airports and train stations, which are getting worse and worse. Toilets that barely have enough water to flush don't keep things cleaner. There is nothing environmentally conscious about a toilet that cannot be flushed and where someone has left their business. There is also nothing economical about taps that barely dispense any water; you just stand there longer or think out something else, and the average owner won't be happy about that either. Or is it stinginess that prevents toilet users from drinking a sip of water? Which immediately reminds me of the now ex-chief executive of Nestlé, who wants everyone to pay for a drip of water?

At Eindhoven Airport, I only saw small icons on the mirrors above a plateau. That plateau represents the sink, but it is flat, like a worktop, and there are only a few tiny holes in it nearby the wall for the dirty water to drain away. There are three icons on the mirror: one is a tap, one is a bar of soap and one is a dryer to dry your hands. Of course, there is no soap. There is so little water that you can barely wash your fingertips. And the dryer is ice cold, just like those few drops of water, which is "lovely" in winter.

What is the idea behind this? In any case, it cannot be to maintain general hygiene and prevent people from getting sick, since every week there is another region in the Netherlands where drinking water has to be boiled because faecal bacteria are present in the water and, of course, the water company can never find the cause quickly. Strange... when it comes to public toilets or facilities, it doesn't matter much if faecal bacteria are spread, and the door handle will still be the winner and a lot dirtier than the toilet bowl.

P.S. Of course, these wet wipes can help keep your hands clean, but I wouldn't count on them disinfecting them. This is obviously not good for the environment, but it is good for the manufacturer's wallet, which continues to fill up. One bag that does not say that anyone who uses it runs the risk of suffocating.

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4-2-2026}