[Steve_Seattle]

I believe in using sanitary precautions, but you could write a comedy skit about someone taking it so far that are unable to do anything except wash their hands and sanitize objects all day.

You order a book from amazon, and it arrives in a bag on the front porch doormat. You take the book out of the bag and throw the bag in the trash because it might be contaminated. But now you've touched the book that was in the bag! What about it? So you spray the book with some sanitizer. But you set the book on the table! Now you wash the table. But now you've touched the can of sanitizer spray! So you spray it with another can. But you forgot about the doormat which touched the package! So you spray that. Oh, and the doorknob! And so on.

[LostInBayport]

You order a book from amazon, and it arrives in a bag on the front porch doormat. You take the book out of the bag and throw the bag in the trash because it might be contaminated. But now you've touched the book that was in the bag! What about it? So you spray the book with some sanitizer. But you set the book on the table! Now you wash the table. But now you've touched the can of sanitizer spray! So you spray it with another can. But you forgot about the doormat which touched the package! So you spray that. Oh, and the doorknob! And so on.

And...what if the person who picked the book for your order at the Amazon warehouse read a few pages? And coughed while doing so?

Run the book through the dishwasher, that's what I say.

[Cboldt]

-- I believe in using sanitary precautions, but you could write a comedy skit about someone taking it so far that are unable to do anything except wash their hands and sanitize objects all day. --

Monk

[Oatka]

Michael Ironside does a magnificent job of a guy who murders someone and then gets worried about leaving fingerprints:

The last four minutes of The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl". (2:05 and on is priceless).

[redfreedom]

“you could write a comedy skit about someone taking it so far that are unable to do anything except wash their hands and sanitize objects all day.”

I know of someone just like that before the China Virus thing. Almost to the point of being a Howard Hughes.

The funny part is she likes dining out, and will wipe down the menu before reading. The whole time she’s there she does not realize how nasty the server and cooks could potentially be. Things falling from a nose, unwashed hands touching food, body hairs, coughing, etc etc.

As a young man in Arlington, VA my girl friend and I used to love the scrambled eggs at a place called Tuddle House. That is until we watched the cook with snot draining from both nostrils falling onto the frying griddle.