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CMV: Doors to public restrooms should open outwards instead of inwards

I'm talking about the doors to get in and out of the larger restroom itself, NOT stalls. There are *a lot* of people including myself who will do everything to avoid touching bathroom door handles, because they're disgusting. In an ideal world everyone cleans their hands adequately before leaving a public restroom but we all know that's not the case. 

**It's** **Unsanitary:**

Door handles are highly-touched surfaces that provide an excellent method of transmission for viruses and bacteria if not cleaned, and given what restrooms are for, door handles are now the perfect surface for nastier bacteria and viruses to get transmitted. There are very few surfaces in most recently-built public restrooms that a user must touch (given all the automatic toilets, faucets, and paper-towel dispensers), but most still force the user to grab the door handle in order to leave since the doors swing *into* the restroom instead of outwards. This essentially guarantees the user will come into contact with bacteria or viruses lingering on the surface unless they use a barrier. 

**It defeats the purpose of handwashing:**

The purpose of handwashing, is to *sanitize* your hands before handling food, touching a wound, or partaking in some activity that creates a situation with higher-than-normal vulnerability to infections. It's been proven that while sanitizing your hands with rubbing alcohol or some other cleaner *is effective,* handwashing is optimal. You wouldn't want your surgeon just throwing some *Purell* on their hands before operating on you! Forcing the user of a restroom to interact with a highly-touched surface that is extremely dirty *after washing their hands,* even with a barrier like paper towel, just defeats the purpose of handwashing! 

**Why doors that open outwards are superior:**

The user can push the door outwards with their body to leave, instead of being forced to pull the door open using the handle, meaning their hands can stay "clean". Furthermore, since people of all different heights, the **average** concentration of bacteria in one particular spot on the door should theoretically be *less* than on the door handle as the surface area of the door handle is obviously much smaller than the surface area of the entire door, so people who insist on using their hands will be pushing from a larger variety of locations on the door itself.

TLDR: Public restroom doors should open outwards since it's more sanitary.
gpt
Opening outwards could be dangerous to others in the main store who happened to be walking past, and open doors allow people to see in.  There should be no door at all but instead two or three narrow offset walls creating a tiny maze that blocks any visual sight lines into the reatroom but is easily walked out of without touching anything.