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Originally Posted by minusonebit
PleasurePays, the only entry on my ignore list, seems to have found himself off of it with this post. Didn't know this one wrote intelligent posts, must have turned over a new leaf.
The fact of the matter is constant hand washing does not make you safer or more healthy, in fact, it makes you less healthy. Your immune system works because of its exposure to germs. If you wash your hands constantly, and do all of the other stuff that people germ obsessive do like Lysol'ing door knobs and light switches daily and using that soapless anti-bacterial hand wash stuff constantly, your body will no longer be exposed to enough germs to keep your immune system active. Inactive immune systems, like muscles on your body, wither and die if they aren't given something to do.
One Benydryl will halt an allergy attack. Two will halt it quicker. Three will put you to sleep. Taking the whole bottle will cause death. Like most things, too much of one thing is just as bad as not enough.
The people who are Lysol'ing their homes and using handwash all the time are doing so because they believe everything they see on TV, namely ads for Lysol and Purell hand cleaners. If a little cleanliness is good, more must be better is the overall message that these commercials send. Like most things with corporate America, the commercials are to sell products, not inform consumers.
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Who said anything about constant handwashing? You guys keep chirping on about obsessive compulsive behavior yet the only ones I see exhibiting it is you yourselves, by continually arguing a point that isn't even relevant to the discussion. The ONLY thing I've put forth in this thread is the following:
People in general could stand to wash their hands just a few extra times throughout their day.
Which is perfectly right to say, and 100% wrong (not to mention quite stupid) to disagree with.
It's been said repeatedly in this thread and on every link I posted earlier that regular handwashing reduces the spread of disease-causing germs and also lessens your own chances of contracting something nasty. I don't see how that can be disagreed with, it's a fact supported by every health care agency and professional in the modern universe.
But, if you guys in your ignorant wisdom prefer to save your 30 or 40 seconds per day and walk around with urine on your hands and everything else you've collected from door knobs, keyboards, phones, money, handshakes, fridge handles, steering wheels, and a 1000 other things you touched during the course of your day, be my guest. Personally I know it's not asking too much of someone to just shut up and wash your damn hands boys. Not obsessively, just a few extra times a day.
If more people did it there WOULD be far less speading of colds and flu and a host of other illnesses. That's a bad thing how?
Anyone with half a clue knows it isn't, it's a good thing.