Everything I need to know about germs I learned from War of the Worlds.
I rarely wash my hands, am an avid nail biter, and rarely get sick. I have the immune system of a buzzard.
Overuse of antibacterial soap can kill good bacteria that live on your hands, potentially leading to skin warts. Temporary and not a big deal, but certainly unpleasant.
However, there is no mechanism by which your immune system “gets weaker” based on a lack of exposure to the same number of pathogens. There just isn’t a way for what you describe to happen.
Yes, extremely bad for our immune systems and health. They’re killing us. Same for masks which force us to breathe in our own toxins and suffocate us from oxygen.
Cleaning surfaces decreases infectious disease transmission, such as flu or Wuhan flu.
Your other concern is unnecessary unless you are sterilizing your house, your car etc...
“Let me tell you a true story about immunization okay?
“When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know... to cool off! And at that time, the big fear was polio; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something? In my neighborhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw s**t!”
- George Carlin
We know that Covid and other types of viruses are rarely caught from surfaces like doorhandles. Excessive cleaning and sterilizing of hard surfaces doesn’t matter a bit to your overall health and well-being.
Let ‘em clean.
You clean one thing and then you notice everything else that needs cleaning.
It’s a vicious cycle.
No worries. I keep stuff dirty enough at home to offset all the madness going on in the workplace.
I think its far more likely they’re going to breed something far more nasty, bacteria-wise, especially the places doing a half-a$$ed job.
I also think all this “cleaning” is to make people feel safer but does bugger all to kill the germs. 2 seconds after some one touches that just sanitized door handle (which is cleaned twice a day), it is “contaminated”.
False security.
Sterility creates monoculture. A pathogenic monoculture is instantly deadly. Stronger and stronger bacteriacides produce stronger and stronger bacterial blooms. The most dangerous place for infection is hospitals.
It’s not that you’re killing off the “good” bacteria, it’s that you’re providing a natural selection breeding ground to cultivate the “super bugs” that can survive these sterilization procedures.
Think of it more like attempting to stop a tornado with a wind blower. Not doing much at all.
Apparently you take pride in being an ignorant fool.
What’s next, dirty up the operating rooms so the surgical patient will have an improved immune system.
And by the way, we don’t have to prove your hypothesis wrong, the proponent has to prove their case right. Good luck with that.
What an idiot. The magnet for uneducated, ignorant and clueless people must be on. But then again, FR seems to attract them like a moth to light.
They stopped cleaning carts here in LA.
Went to Orland today - there were workers spraying the door handles of the stores every time someone touched them.
Most of the “good bacteria” in your body is in your digestive system to help you digest your food. You replenish it with the foods you eat, not by breathing it in. The number 1 cause of not enough good bacteria in the body is antibiotics, not overly clean surfaces.
Companies went from never cleaning stuff to doing it properly? You think that’s bad? I guarantee you the credit card machines in most businesses were dirtier than the toilets. The toilets got cleaned occasionally. Now the get routinely cleaned.
Average Americans don’t wash their hands well after going to the bathroom. My guess is 5-10% don’t even try. Common surfaces need to be kept clean.
Dumb vanity in my opinion.