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JJBIRISH
Jul 08, 2014Explorer
Good hygiene is one thing but the paranoia people have today about things like this is not healthy and is ruining their own immune systems and that of their children, creating hard to treat new bacteria’s and diseases…
Antibacterial soaps, lotions and hand sanitizers every few minutes… really the lack of commonsense reaches both ends of the spectrum as seen in the OP and some of the reactions to it…
Almost everything we touch is antibacterial something or the next thing we touch will be antibacterial… antibacterial products has even made it into the food supply… Today more than half of the hand soaps on the market have an antibacterial additive, and virtually all of the hand sanitizers do…
Advertisers have mounted an all-out effort to make us scared of germs so we buy their antimicrobial products. But in reality, our world is meant to contain bacteria and other microbes, and it is the interaction between our immune systems and these microbes that keeps us free of allergies and in good health …
For sure what this lady did was disgusting to see, but odds a in her favor it didn’t kill her or even make her sick, and if she does it this way often she most likely has a better immunity to it than you or I do… and might actually be healthier with a stronger immune system for it…
Plumbers will work in and around worse things for hours at a time and they are not dying in the streets because of their profession, they just get paid well for it…
Antibacterial soaps, lotions and hand sanitizers every few minutes… really the lack of commonsense reaches both ends of the spectrum as seen in the OP and some of the reactions to it…
Almost everything we touch is antibacterial something or the next thing we touch will be antibacterial… antibacterial products has even made it into the food supply… Today more than half of the hand soaps on the market have an antibacterial additive, and virtually all of the hand sanitizers do…
Advertisers have mounted an all-out effort to make us scared of germs so we buy their antimicrobial products. But in reality, our world is meant to contain bacteria and other microbes, and it is the interaction between our immune systems and these microbes that keeps us free of allergies and in good health …
For sure what this lady did was disgusting to see, but odds a in her favor it didn’t kill her or even make her sick, and if she does it this way often she most likely has a better immunity to it than you or I do… and might actually be healthier with a stronger immune system for it…
Plumbers will work in and around worse things for hours at a time and they are not dying in the streets because of their profession, they just get paid well for it…
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