There’ve been lots of song suggestions going around to make sure...

There’ve been lots of song suggestions going around to make sure that you wash your hands for at least twenty seconds, but — as we’re more the bookish types over here — we made a few with a literary spin (inspired by the Wash Your Lyrics generator). Stay safe and healthy by practicing some dramatic readings while you wash your hands, or suggest your favorite 20-second literary readings.

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An infographic labeled “Hand-washing technique with soap and water”, with 13 panels depicting how to thoroughly wash your hands.  

Image #1 includes text beneath the panels from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet:

“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. […]
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy:
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
[…] nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

Image #2 includes text beneath the panels from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

‘My dear Mr. Bennet,’ said his lady to him one day, ‘have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?’”

Image #3 includes text beneath the panels from The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.

“’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
     Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
     And the mome raths outgrabe.

‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
     The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
     The frumious Bandersnatch!’

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
     Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
     And stood awhile in thought.

[…] One, two! One, two!”

Text at the bottom of each image reads: “Adapted from National Health Service, who adapted from the World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Healthcare. Created under the open government license. See http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-lisence/version/3/ for details.”