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Do you suffer from OCD? You can do none of these things and be just fine.

Bjartr 8y ago
People routinely get sick when traveling to the point it's basically a trope. Keeping your hands clean is an excellent problem way to reduce your likelihood of getting sick in general. You, personally, may not get sick traveling, but your experience is not a solution for a systemic problem, nor is your proposal of doing nothing.
- markdown 8y ago
  It's possible that people who routinely get sick when traveling are the ones that live their lives in self-made sterile cocoons... a tiny sliver of the air-travelling public. > People routinely get sick when traveling to the point it's basically a trope. The only version of the trope I've heard of before is eating in foreign 3rd world destinations (eg: Delhi belly). I live in a major tourist destination and if tourists were routinely getting sick out here I'd know about it. I mean of course one should be washing their hands after using the bathrooom, but all that other stuff you mentioned.. that's anal to the point of obsessive.
  - Bjartr 8y ago
    >I mean of course one should be washing their hands after using the bathrooom Isn't a large value of washing after using the restroom that it means you'll wash your hands multiple times a day when you wouldn't otherwise? > but all that other stuff you mentioned.. that's anal to the point of obsessive. Arguments similar to this were used against washing your hands at all when we first developed a theory of germs and contamination. Really though, this discussion won't progress until one of us has supporting data.
    - markdown 8y ago
      Fair enough. I don't have data to support my conclusions, but I subscribe to the Hygiene Hypothesis... humans have lived in filth for millennia, and our bodies haven't evolved to live in sterile conditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

People routinely get sick when traveling to the point it's basically a trope. Keeping your hands clean is an excellent problem way to reduce your likelihood of getting sick in general. You, personally, may not get sick traveling, but your experience is not a solution for a systemic problem, nor is your proposal of doing nothing.

markdown 8y ago
It's possible that people who routinely get sick when traveling are the ones that live their lives in self-made sterile cocoons... a tiny sliver of the air-travelling public. > People routinely get sick when traveling to the point it's basically a trope. The only version of the trope I've heard of before is eating in foreign 3rd world destinations (eg: Delhi belly). I live in a major tourist destination and if tourists were routinely getting sick out here I'd know about it. I mean of course one should be washing their hands after using the bathrooom, but all that other stuff you mentioned.. that's anal to the point of obsessive.
- Bjartr 8y ago
  >I mean of course one should be washing their hands after using the bathrooom Isn't a large value of washing after using the restroom that it means you'll wash your hands multiple times a day when you wouldn't otherwise? > but all that other stuff you mentioned.. that's anal to the point of obsessive. Arguments similar to this were used against washing your hands at all when we first developed a theory of germs and contamination. Really though, this discussion won't progress until one of us has supporting data.
  - markdown 8y ago
    Fair enough. I don't have data to support my conclusions, but I subscribe to the Hygiene Hypothesis... humans have lived in filth for millennia, and our bodies haven't evolved to live in sterile conditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis