Even if they did, they still might have ended up catching and eating the bacterium right at your fingertip. (Heck, that's not even an edge-case — fingertips and

Even if they did, they still might have ended up catching and eating the bacterium right at your fingertip. (Heck, that's not even an edge-case — fingertips and other extremeties served by the tiniest of bloodflow channels, get wounded and infected pretty often!) Think of it like: what would civic street sizing regulations look like, if fire trucks — already the longest thing most residential streets need to accommodate — had to rapidly reconfigure and redeploy into an even longer shape, while sitting there on the street, to do their job; and then were stuck in this state until they made it back to the depot?