Nothing that radical about this. I’ve been carrying hand sanitiser and using it as a matter of course since a swine flu scare about 10 years ago - it’s always seemed to me common sense to clean your hands after touching frequently-used public surfaces such as door handles in stores etc. As for masks - whatever the rights and wrongs of their effectiveness, regularly wearing them in public as a matter of personal choice has been quite common in some Asian countries for many years.
What does seem crazy to me about public behaviour at the moment is that so many people are diligently wearing masks, but not taking the slightest care over their hands.
Masks were mainly worn in Asian countries due to AIR POLLUTION.
At least in Communist China (and Singapore, thanks to all the lovely Indonesian haze from burning Palm Plantations).
OCD hygiene, disinfection, and germophobia is NOT helpful, unless you are immunocompromised.
I have NEVER carried around a bottle of hand sanitizer for constant use in general public settings and never will.
Incidentally, I am an RN working in a specialty field of critical care and fully understand principles of infection control.
I really wish schools taught people how our own damn bodies work.
And I have no interest whatsoever in adopting the Asian muzzle cultural affectation. Not sorry.
And there is a higher incidencne of suicide on Asia.