I cringe at the check out when the customer ahead of me has cloth bags.
I know of someone who picked up a stray dog one day and came by to show him to us. He was in the back seat lying (?)on her cloth shopping bags. Huge patches of missing hair and later vet diagnosed mange.
I’ve been voluntarily using cloth bags off and on for 25 years and haven’t gotten sick from a food borne illness that could be traced to that. The key word is voluntary, though. If I have too many plastic and paper bags accumulated in the drawers and cupboards, I start taking my own. When I start needing them again for garbage or whatever, I stop taking my own. No bag ban in Everett, though there have been noises about a statewide one.