> And it was pushed by hysterical media and governments as the truth and you better not think anything else. This seems more than a little exaggerated. Even in

> And it was pushed by hysterical media and governments as the truth and you better not think anything else. This seems more than a little exaggerated. Even in the early stuff I saw about cleaning surfaces expressed uncertainty about it. Any time a new disease appears, most of the advice you're going to get will be stuff they thought up in advance. Washing your hands and cleaning more aren't normally going to hurt anything, so you'll probably see that every time some new disease pops up.