My grocery store had gotten new refrigeration units about a year before Coroba virus panic hit. Door handles everywhere. The sprayers were constantly sanitizing them. For about two weeks. Then, I think people started to catch on that this just wasn’t a terribly virulent bug, novel or not. I was thinking “Oh, great. Now they’re creating superbugs at the grocery store.”
There’s a zillion articles about how the over sanitization craze is slowly creating superbugs and destroying our natural immunity to the world.
When I was kid, I spent all my time around dogs and farm animals, running barefoot through filthy places, sharing sandwiches with my dogs and so forth.
Got a crazy immune system and the last time I had a “flu” was 15 years ago when I got a “flu shot”.
Even if I start to catch a “cold” that is slamming everybody else here, it lasts me maybe one day and that’s a sniffle or two and a couple sneezes.
Every time I see somebody in a store bathroom, frantically scrubbing their paws like they’re about to perform bare handed brain surgery, I think “Welp. There goes your lovely layer of protective bacteria”.
Let your kids go play in the dirt, like I did.
Also, the irony is, unless you marinate surfaces for at least a minute in sanitizers, you have accomplished exactly nothing.
Even 90% alcohol takes at least 30 seconds to do diddly squat.