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Originally Posted by WEG Cory
Being exposed to germs can build tolerance actually. I wash my hands after the bathroom, unless its like at a truckstop and everything in there is so disgusting that I rather take a risk with my own germs : )
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Seems all my life, all the germ freaks I have ever known have been the same people that catch everything under the sun. Why? I think its because they have no protection...and they take too many antibiotics...they essentially kill too many germs.
To this day, I don't care if I am around someone that is sick. I grew up the kind of guy that would go over to a sick friends home and help them out, I rarely ever got sick from it.
I think a lot of its a mentality. I tend to not believe I will get sick, so that helps a lot. My only issue is getting coughs. I hate coughs, but that isn't really something you catch as much as it is something you develop from another variable.
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There are plenty of ways and places on the body that bacteria and "germs" can exist. Your hands do not have to be one of them, and shouldn't. Any health care professional will tell you that frequent handwashing every day is healthy and helps prevent the spread of germs, ecoli, staph infections, the rhinovirus (colds) and a host of other ailments.
People that never or rarely wash their hands infect all sorts of things, door handles, salt/pepper shakers, other people's hands during a handshake, even themselves when they happen to rub their eye with their dirty fingers. A lot of people cough into their hands, a couple of handwashings during the day wouldn't kill them. NOT washing them might, or might kill someone else though.
I see your point about building up a tolerance, but it doesn't have to (and shouldn't) include the hands.