Its not about 'risk of cleanliness' that I was talking about, I've been raised also behind Iron curtain during same period in your neighboring state. Nobody bac

Its not about 'risk of cleanliness' that I was talking about, I've been raised also behind Iron curtain during same period in your neighboring state. Nobody back then was saying absolute cleanliness was a way to go. Normal kind of approach had very mild side effects if any and ie kids cleaning their hands or face is overall not a bad approach and agreed upon even today. I really meant some form of fanatical approach to it, which is never a good approach for anything. One didn't need internet for such common sense wisdom (aka middle path is practically always the best approach regardless of topic). But surprisingly high proportion of population suffers from some form of germophobia, so maybe that's what you meant. Without any scientific feedback on good aspects of having them around, I guess some folks went a bit banana with that (since you can never clean way all the bacteria in common household due to their sheer numbers overcoming any approach, so people affected by it can escalate hygiene to extremes)