Thread by @Ebonyteach, In so many of our cultures, you know the bathroom is clean [...]

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Ebonyteach

In so many of our cultures, you know the bathroom is clean when you can't go in there for a good half hour -- gotta let the fan and/or open window air it out!

Our Big Mamas never trusted organic cleaners in those rooms, and COVID-19 proved them right.

A moment of silence, if you will, for my past self who tried to convince my people otherwise.

Just...

I need a moment.

You can use organic cleaners in the kitchen, but even baking soda and vinegar doesn't do what bleach does in a shared bathroom if someone in the household has stomach flu.

Even if you live in a household of one.

Ask me how I know.

No one loves bleach or other disinfectants (hello, asthmatic here), but the reason the masses began vigorously disinfecting bathrooms in the early 1900s was because of the 1918-1920 epidemic. https://whyy.org/articles/how-a-pandemic-inspired-your-bathroom/

Essay: Thank our last pandemic for the subway tiles and pedestal sink in your bathroom

Before COVID-19, the 1918 pandemic changed our world and with it, home design. This is how a century-old pandemic inspired the modern bathroom.

https://whyy.org/articles/how-a-pandemic-inspired-your-bathroom/

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