Its to cold to smoke outside, and I have a smoke detector in my apartment. What can I do beside taping up the smoke detector?
Fast food employees should have to wear gloves any time they are involved in handling a customers food. There is no reason they can't wear clear plastic gloves while they are making sandwiches or any food to serve customers.
I too get paranoid when I see straight pins or safety pins in fitting rooms. I always want to put on latex gloves and pick them up. But then what do you do with them? However, HIV does not survive long on most surfaces. The issue with HIV (and STDs) and needles is that needles are hollow and provide a protected, moist, environment for viruses. Straight pins and safety pins are not hollow. And while Hepatitis B and C are capable of surviving in dried blood, the chances that an infected person deliberately contaminated and dropped a straight pin in a dressing room is infinitesimal (very, very, very small). The same applies to STDs as well. I certainly understand your paranoia. If I'm in public and I get a scratch from something (such as the sharp corner of a display shelf) I immediately worry that it was deliberately contaminated with a deadly virus. Someone once accidentally kicked me with a pointy-toed shoe in a theater, and I started worrying that she had put something contagious on the shoe, then kicked me. Yes, I'm paranoid, and it's a little funny sometimes when I stop and think about it. You are much, much more likely to get the common cold virus (rhinovirus) from a surface than you are to get HIV or STDs from the same surface.
