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You know, I'm really not going to let this bother me. I figure I've been inhaling flush droplets -- my own and others' -- for over 75 years. If it was going to make me sick, it probably would have before today.
Totally agree. It's a germy world. Just because we can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. I'm sure the germophobes among us would really freak out if they knew what was out there, everywhere, living on and in us, but in reality most are harmless commensals and many are beneficial. These critters exercise our immune systems and that keeps us strong.
All that said, it's still important to maintain good hygiene, wash our hands after doing any of those ",germy" duties
( doody included,), before we eat, touch our faces, etc.:
That could have just as easily come from a door handle you touched to open a door, an elevator button you pushed, a piece of merchandise you picked up that someone else incubating that stomach bug virus also touched.
My toothbrush lives in a basket on the back of the toilet tank. I don't close the lid when I flush and I don't get stomach bugs. Let me know when the CDC is coming to study my fabulously healthy body.
PEOPLE are laden with germs, and yet walk around as if they are worried about cooties from other things.
I laughed so hard the time I went to an aquarium with a friend and her kid. She had grown up in a ratty part of Manhattan exposed to all sorts of filth and vermin. However, when we went to an aquarium at the Jersey shore, she became alarmed when she saw that they had a "touch tank" with sea creatures in them, but then she spied some child-height sinks along the wall and was relieved that her kid would be able to wash his hands after touching those critters in the tank.
We got to the tank, and the woman overseeing it pointed to the sinks and said to her son, "Please go wash your hands before you touch any of the animals." The look on her face was priceless.
I had neighbors that had a baby and never took it outside. I mean never. The kid was always sick. Since the kid have never been exposed to anything and developed an immune system it was always sick. I am sure from the germs the parents bought home.
I remember seeing him finally going outside. He was almost a year old. Mom had to take him somewhere. His skin was translucent, almost like you could see through it. It was so creepy.
Mine don't get flushed much at all my man. Plus i pee in a glass and it goes down the sink or i go outside clyde. I have saved so much water that way over the years.
It can't be as bad as a garderobe in a medieval castle!
Only if you are outside under the garderobe
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