From the beloved NYT:
Excerpts:
"When you go to the gym, do you wash your hands before and after using the equipment? Bring your own regularly cleaned mat for floor exercises? Shower with antibacterial soap and put on clean clothes immediately after your workout? Use only your own towels, razors, bar soap, water bottles? If you answered "no" to any of the above, you could wind up with one of the many skin infections that can spread like wildfire in athletic settings."
"(A wrestler) noticed a pimple on his arm last winter but thought little of it. He competed in a match on a Saturday, but by the next morning the pimple had grown to the size of his biceps and had become very painful.... Two days later, he learned he had MRSA, the potentially deadly staphylococcus infection that is resistant to most antibiotics."
Gee. This brings to mind several questions.
1. Does this make *any* difference to ogling shapely women at the gym? The correct answer is "No". That is never a crime, under any circumstance, including if the shapely woman is god.
2. How can a pimple become as big as a bicep? I don't know the answer to this.
3. If a pimple is as big as a wrestler's bicep, can it still be called a pimple? Should it not be called something else, more worthy of its bad-ass status?
4. Does the pimple-and-acne cream industry know about this? I smell a stampede.
5. Forget about your own towels, how can people use gym-provided apparel? Yech. This happens at my gym.
And outside of the gym, does your partner wash her / his hands before she / he gets it on with you? Holy crap!! MRSA on your @#$*!!!
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