COVID-19 Question.....................

[Caballus]

Vacation planning map? That looks like a house plan. <grin>

Decided on the CV19 wine tour...

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[Vlad Soare]

Speaking of gas station filler nozzles...the wife stared at me for a moment when I suggested she use a glove when pumping gas. This is a practice I believed in years before this Wutang debacle.

I do this all the time, but not because of viruses. It's because I can't stand the smell of gasoline on my hands, and besides, gasoline is harmful to the skin and most likely carcinogenic. I keep a few disposable nitrile gloves in my car, just in case the gas station doesn't offer some (though most seem to do nowadays, at least in Europe). It has nothing to do with the Corona virus; I've been doing it for years.

Speaking of that, life's so unfair sometimes. You pay a lot of money for a top class perfume, and by noon its smell is already gone. But get a drop of gasoline on your hand, and you reek for days.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

gasoline is harmful to the skin and most likely carcinogenic. I keep a few disposable nitrile gloves in my car

I'm not fully understanding how you get gas on your hands (or gloves) putting gas in the car.

 

[Vlad Soare]

There are traces of gas (oftentimes even more than just 'traces') on the handle and hose. Just touching those is guaranteed to make your hand stink. A lot of people use that pump, and many of them don't know how to operate it correctly. I've seen enough fools getting gasoline everywhere while removing the nozzle from the filler neck..

 

[Caballus]

European gas stations have disposable glove dispensers. They are normally marked "diesel gloves" or something like that. Never figured out if they are required by law--or cared. Few people tend to use them, though that probably changed recently.

 

[kilobravo]

I just see that Glove Dispenser down here. It'd be empty in ten minutes. <chuckling> Never happen.

FWIW, I don't get the smell of gasoline or diesel on my hands if my I'm careful. Whatever is on the handle itself never seems to make my hands smell, only the spillage when I'm stupid.

 

[Epiphany]

I'm not fully understanding how you get gas on your hands (or gloves) putting gas in the car.

Where I am in NY our pump nozzles look like this....

No vapor collection, no shield, etc. So often times at shutoff you'll get blowback and a nice dousing of gas when the tank is full - if you aren't careful to ease off on a hot day when the tank is vapor prone. So your hand, forearm, the car, etc, get gasoline on them.

Or you could just stand there for complete body coverage when a line fails like this guy...

 

[kilobravo]

Brutha here's a suggestion I adopted not long ago after becoming a bit more informed on the subject of refueling.

I've read, and I believe this source, that it's not advisable to "top off" the tank after it auto terminates. One should cease fueling then and hang the pump up. That would save a lot of spillage and splashing.

 

[Epiphany]

I'm talking about the first time shutoff, not subsequent bursts to add more fuel.

 

[kilobravo]

You get splash during the auto shutoff that flies on to the handle, Tob?

It's not real windy up there in Shuffle Off to Buffalo, is it?

 

[kilobravo]

Figured I'd throw in some humor amongst the gloom.

 

[Epiphany]

Not on the 500 but on other cars I have in the past.

 

[kilobravo]

Ah, OK...yep, I too have had automatic shutoffs throw fuel on other vehicles but those were all some time in the past.

 

[kilobravo]

For those who perhaps haven't seen this "Ted" episode from 2015, it is worth a watch.

Bill Gates is the speaker and the title is,

"The Next Outbreak, We're Not Ready"

 

[Vlad Soare]

What scares me is that this madness is going to set a precedent. If they get away now with shutting down entire countries (actually, they don't just get away with it, but the majority of the population seems to be more than happy to see them do that), then what's to stop them from doing it again and again with each outbreak of a new kind of flu? Shall we expect to see such massive shutdowns every fall and spring from now on?

Whenever I saw something like this in movies I always thought that's science fiction, that thing can never, ever happen in real life. But it is happening. It's not a dream. It's for real. So, how often will it happen from now on?

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