Yet another example of the GOP's anti-science philosophy

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COMMENTS:
*  ..and why should doctors be required to scrub up before surgery. When enough of their patients die of infections, the market will take care of that... blah, blah, blah.. idiot.. 
*  The GOP gets dumber and dumber every day.  Yeah, from my a--hole to your dinner would make a great advertisement for any restaurant.
*  Thank you Senator for making that so clear.  Let 'freedumb' ring sir.
*  Want some free fecal matter with your bacon cheeseburger? Vote Republican. These idiots are officially beyond parody.
*  NC restaurant workers, feel free to spit in this yo-yo's food. Freedom to spit. 
*  Washing one's hands is something that benefits both the handwasher and everyone else with zero risk to the washer. There's no controversy over the effectiveness of or the risks associated with handwashing. And FAR more people die from food poisoning in this country than, say, measles (roughly 3,000 per year vs. 0 in over a decade). 
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GOP senator: Don’t make employees wash their hands after going to the bathroom, because freedom

Down with tyrannical hygienic regulations!

By Luke Brinker, February 4, 2015

For much of the past 36 or so hours, we’ve heard from a number of Republicans that risking the occasional measles outbreak is simply the price of liberty.  While Rand Paul and Chris Christie were busy championing the sacred right to expose others to disease, it fell to freshman Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) to take up the next great cause in the fight for freedom from regulatory overreach. We speak, of course, of the right of restaurants not to require their employees to wash their hands after using the restroom.

Speaking during a question-and-answer session at the Bipartisan Policy Center on Monday, Tillis related a story from his tenure in the North Carolina legislature to help explain his overarching philosophy on the finer points of hand-washing.

“I was having this discussion with someone, and we were at a Starbucks in my district, and we were talking about certain regulations where I felt like maybe you should allow businesses to opt out,” Tillis said, in remarks first reported by the District Sentinel. “Let an industry or business opt out as long as they indicate through proper disclosure, through advertising, through employment, literature, whatever else. There’s this level of regulations that maybe they’re on the books, but maybe you can make a market-based decision as to whether or not they should apply to you.”
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