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Just had to pull a used PPE glove out of my dogs throat to stop it choking on it. the location...directly at the exit of the open air police garage in the largest police station in Brighton. (and unfortunately <50m from my mums house and on the corner of the only semi quiet road in the area to take the dog to do a shite while observing proper social distancing).
For a while I've been assuming the large amounts of used tissue, gloves and masks around there wasdown to the local population of selfish cunts dropping it but given the wind that comes in off the sea and our location half way up a hill facing seaward and tonight's incident I've realised that the epicentre of this waste is always right where the police are washing their cars.
am fucking livid that I've been forced to come into physical contact with something that is likely from a high risk, high exposure contact situation such as those handled by the police.
typically to take the dog out to go to the bathroom the exhaustive list of things I touch between leaving the house and coming back in are:
on a normal trip the poo bag is the only thing that comes into contact with any outside surfaces and it's inside out over my hand literally formaing a protective barrier and it's tied using the non-contacted side. the bins dont require touching to dispose of it either.
I flagged down a police car as it was leaving and asked them to "tell their colleages" to dispose of their ppe more safely, the looked at me blankly and asked if i saw them drop it directly and then drove off.. might as well be shouting into the void.
so yeah marking this date to see if I get sick now.