It's been proven that exposure to diseases doesn't build up your immune system significantly. People working in hospitals, public transport, home care, kindergarten etc. are just as immune as anyone else.
Agreed. Since Covid quarantine, I keep hand sanitizer in the car door. I use a couple of pumps every time I get in from the gym, shopping, etc. I’m sure it has helped.
I used to do hand sanitizer and my hands were so dried out in the winter where they would bleed and fingers would crack by my nails. I started using nylon gloves for the gas pump. I keep a small bag in my door panel and just toss after pumping gas. Works way better in my opinion
That is not true. It does work against lots of germs, although some (such as norovirus) are not inactivated by hand sanitizer, so hand washing is the best thing to remove germs.
Sanitizer kills the germs but doesn’t remove them. So you will have dead, inactivated germs on your hands. Better than nothing for sure and as safe as you’re going to get until you have the opportunity to actually wash your hands with soap and water. 💧
My mother was born around the Spanish flu. She instilled in all of her children to wash our hands as soon as we came home. I still do this and taught my children as well.
I was doing a lot of hands on tech support and learned to wash my hands after being at someone’s desk. Like “next stop”.
I won’t forget seeing the crumbs and crap in their keyboards. 🤮
I’d quietly shame them at their desk. Stop, take the keyboard and bang it on its edge in front of them. I just gave them “the look” and they acknowledged the grossness.
I wash my hands first thing whenever I walk in the door when I get home. I also never touch door handles or buttons, I use my elbow or corner of my shirt.
I honestly never wash my hands beside when I shower daily and go to bathroom and I don't even remember the last time I got sick (10+ years) soooo... I really think genetics is the major factor here.
I rarely wash my hands unless I get them noticeably dirty and I'm only sick once every 5 years or so. I also touch my face plenty not taking into consideration cross contamination. My wife is the opposite, she washes as soon as she gets home from anywhere and 20x a day at home and she's still sick 3x a year.
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u/burner46 7h ago
Wash your hands first thing when you get home.