Blankets

[G00r]

Unless I am preparing food for someone else or caring for someone who's sick, my attitude towards is very casual.. No;
- washing clothes in hot water
- hand sanitiser
- shampoo/condit (once you stop washing the oil out of your hair, your body stops producing it. Water is more than sufficient to rinse out any 'dirt)
- alcohol wipes
- worrying about touching surfaces that others have touched
- using a blanket that someone else may or may not have used

The result of this attitude is;
- Being able to confidently eat foods that 'don't smell right'
- eating from street stalls
- flu and cold free
- Not worried about the pending doom that's coming when antibiotics cease to be effective.

Being at the opposite end of the spectrum, the OP/others may think it's a germ infested way to live, whereas I am more concerned about those at the other end, having such (comparatively) weaker immune systems.

 

[Foreigner]

Hmm, quite a number of jaundiced opinions on this thread. My statement is quite clear...my perception of wrapped blankets on airplanes is that they're clean. Period.

 

[jellybelly]

I rembember someone telling me they were on a flight in. group of three travellers. Someone opened a blanket and it was covered in vomit, they called the flight attendant who shrugged, put it back in the plastic bag and gave them another one.

 

[opusman]

Don't lick them and you'll be fine.

 

[njba]

I'd rather have an unbagged clean blanket than the one I received in a bag with a free giveaway very large living tropical insect.
Although I did receive a bottle of wine as an apology for that.

I would have given you a bottle of tequila with one of those wee bugs that are in the bottles (at least on tv) to continue the fantastic joke.