Do you think we have become a society where we are afraid of germs and cross contaminations??
And I am not referencing cold season or H1N1.
What I am referring to is this: I have just made a simple hamburger dinner, with most fixings .... and I must have washed (with soap and hotwater) my hands at least 20 times! no lie!! After handling the cracked egg, after unwrapping the meat, before crushing the croutons, etc .... you get my drift. (No wonder I go thru so much damn liquid soap in the kitchen!)
When I grew up - and it wasn't the Depression time or remotely close (and obviously, my siblings and I never died) .... my mom wouldn't have dreamed of doing what I just did in the kitchen, and she was a nurse!!
So .... have we become overly clean do you think? or maybe that isn't the right question .... but I can't be the only one who does this ....
Is it the brainwash of the media/advertising guys, or the health people or what? Who is winning? Maybe I am rambling - but man, I have clean hands!!
Van
Germs can kill you, I believe that, so I don't think it's just a media brainwash. But at the same time, I think we as a society are weakening our immune systems. If we use anti-bacterial soap, and anti-bacterial wipes after everything, our bodies will lose their ability to fight bacteria, and we will be more susceptible to germs. Also, with greater exposure to anti-bacterial sprays, etc, the bacteria develops resistances and becomes stronger as well. When I cook just for myself I am not very worried about cross contamination, but I do respect others, so I am far more careful when someone else will be eating the food too. I've used the same bowl to mix my eggs and milk as I used to have my cooked scrambled eggs in later. And that didn't make me sick. Maybe I get lucky, but I continue to believe that my immune system is better for me not being quite so careful.
Van, I'm a total germaphobe. I wash my hands with soap and scolding water every time I enter my house. I have bottles of Purell on every room. And I wash my hands after I "handle" my own children. My husband makes fun of me all the time, but you know what: I get sick less often than he does.
I am almost always washing my hands, or im sanitizing them. I get sick very easy so i try not to touch a lot of things if i can help it...Its hell at work because of working in retail, but im still always sanitizing and then i put lotion on cause my hands get so dried out..arh!
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the majority of sewer systems eventually return to rivers or lakes after being cleaned. A lot of the chemicals from our soaps end up in those rivers and lakes. I'm not saying to never wash up but that we should avoid the needless over washing when possible. Just a thought.
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I saw a couple of bugs in my noodles the other day and just flicked them out and kept eating. Just protein. But I am a vegetarian so thought I would let the little critters live.
I'm more in your camp, Van. I'm a bit of a clean freak. Heheh, I won't even purchase hamburger as I am fairly certain that those fuckers at the groceries of the world and especially in the slaughterhouses sure don't practice the best sanitation with their 'product' but especially with ground beef.
Anyway...
In my late teens and early twenties, I lived the life of a young slob in community around 22 other young slobs for a few years. Sanitation and cleanliness was on the low rung of the priority ladder. Except on those evenings when I wanted to get laid (but I never, never, ever brought women back to the dorm...lol).
When I am in the kitchen preparing meals anymore, I am just as tediously clean when cooking for myself as I am when I have guests. It is force of habit. I have different cutting boards for different food groups. And all get thoroughly washed. I might wash my hands two to half a dozen times when prepping my food/ingredients.
I think I like clean hands. I live alone and have for most of my adult life, sharing my residences for perhaps a total of ten out of 30 years, with other women. I don't have children, but I have and do have pets and I do sometimes handle them.
I don't want their cat ass or dog nut germs on my fingers when I absent-mindedly rub my eyes, or handle a snack or touch the tv remote or - my keyboards. Ugh - is there anything more unsanitary at the work office, than keyboards, door-knobs, push-plates for entry doors...I can go on.
I wash after every restroom visit and then will use the paper towel I've dried my hands with to grab ahold and open the exit door, tossing the moist towel into a trashcan at my desk, after opening any doors I might need to pass through to my work area.
I get some odd looks, for sure...but none any more odder than those I will sometimes make a point of leering at ... those of you who grab your cock and shake it during your piss or you come out of stalls after wiping...then go over to the mirror/sink and adjust your hair and don't even look at the sink or gasp, the sanitary soap.
Some germs are our friends (we have loads of bacterial colonies inside our digestive systems to help break down food to be easier digested) but some germs, I try to lessen from the fight against my white blood cells.
I haven't been an unsanitary slob (except when rather fucking drunk - and that's not often) since the early 1980s.
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
While going through cancer treatment I was obsessed with washing my hands but now that I am finished with all that I have calmed down. Wash before I eat and shower before bed.
Get on Get in Enjoy the ride From George Carlin:
"I never get sick, never get colds, do you know why? because I've got a good, strong immune system, and it gets a lot of practice. I grew up in New York, and we used to swim in the Hudson River, you know, to cool off, and that river was filthy, with raw sewage floating in it, we were tempered in liquid shit! But no kid I knew got polio or anything else because our immune systems were strong! My immune system is equipped with grenades, automatic weapons, and we've recently added cluster bombs and low yield nuclear warheads. Some unlucky germ shows up in my body and they go out and wax the motherfucker, no Miranda warning, no probation, they wax the fucker and deposit him neatly in my color for removal."
And he's right. I keep a clean house, but I'm not a clean freak with sanitizer everywhere, and we....don't get sick very often. However, a co-worker who avoids germs with an insane level of phobia, when she gets a cold, it lingers for weeks because her system isn't used to working very hard. Ours probably have to kill a few germs every day, so when a tougher one shows up, the system is ready to handle it.
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere." - Groucho Marx
heheh, George Carlin was my God.
But ya gotta realize he was paid to make you cringe and laugh.
I have swam in farm ponds and creeks which run through cattle country, which means cowshit will get washed into said water.
But I stay the fuck out of public pools and I haven't used a pay phone since 1984.
Cowshit in pond water = sufferable.
People poo in rivers (along with all the other garbage we flush down the drain, antibiotics, time of the month waste, hospital garbage, slaughterhouse effluent) = bad, bad, bad
Okay, pardon me while I go find a place to vurp.
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
There is another thing I forgot to mention...Colds are caused by viruses and not bacteria. Anti-bacterial agents will do nothing against the cold virus. But washing your hands will.
And don't sneeze into your hand! This is quite possibly the worst habit that people are guilty of. I am still amazed at how prevalent this practice is...even among health care professionals.
time for a brew now!
