Same thing was found on pay phones back in the day. Somehow we all survived, despite using pay phones often without washing our hands.
Bacteria and viruses are everywhere.
Right. You have to watch out for yourself. And you have to draw the line somewhere.
I probably wash my hands a dozen times a day at least, but I work in Healthcare, and that is a valid place to be doing it. You just have to in order to prevent patients from picking up infections while in the hospital.
Sometimes I think all the allergy stuff we see is due to this obsessive thing with hand wash, cleaners and such. Getting exposure to stuff (to a degree) is important to keep your immune system strong.
To a degree...
But there are more antibiotic resistant germs, plus third world microbes that we haven’t developed immunity to, nowadays.