I work with a few of you, and I've seen dozens more in public. I recognize you from your telltale bottles of hand sanitizer you carry in your purses. You think that you can avoid sickness by avoiding germs alltogether. However, you can't avoid manipulating things with your hands, so you're never without your sanitizer to use immediately after touching anything. This sanitizer (much like the anti-bacterial soaps you probably use) kills. 99.99% of all germs on contact. Have you ever thought about the significance of this number? What happens to this .01% of leftover germs? Well, under normal circumstances, this tiny percentage would naturally be kept in check by the other microscopic entities fighting for survival on the surface of your skin. However, you germophobes have leveled the playing field for this bit of leftover germs. You may have killed 99.99% of the germs on your hands just now, but consider what you've left behind. You are left with an extrenely resistant strain of germs, immune to your anti-bacterial strategies. In essence, all you've really done is kill this super-germs's other competition in the germ world. With no other bacteria to fight with over resources, this super-germ will thrive unchallenged. Through repeated use of these same anti-bacterial soaps and sanitizers, you will be ensuring this super-germ's survival, as well as its eventual take-over of your skin or body. Your hand sanitizers are not going to save you, I'm afraid. There's only one real solution; wear oven mitts wherever you go, to keep anything from coming in contact with your hands.
Disclamer: I am not a dermatologist, nor am I an expert on bacterial cell-growth. I didn't even do any research on the above statements. Truth be told, I just really want to see germophobes wearing oven mitts out on the town.
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I think it's actually even useful to get sick once in a while. The human body learns to fight tough germs by fighting weaker, similar germs. That's the idea behind vaccination, and why you need to get shots before going to a foreign country. People just don't have natural defenses against germs they've never encountered before.
Frantically sanitize yourself all the time, and you're likely to get really sick once you do happen to come in contact with a disease.
Your response is completely gendered, they don't make oven mitts for men.
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