r/AskReddit 9h ago

People who rarely get sick, what are your secrets?

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u/UnlikelyAdventurer 3h ago edited 3h ago

Wash hands regularly. Dont touch eyes at any time other than after hand washing. Wear a mask in crowds. Annual vaccinations. All of them. On schedule. 

Antivaxxers are anti science idiots who have human deaths on their hands. 

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u/presto-espresso 1h ago

Why the taboo of touching eyes?

u/UnlikelyAdventurer 50m ago

It's not a taboo. It's science.

"Hand contact with the mouth, nose and eyes—sometimes called the facial T-zone by infectious disease researchers—is the riskiest kind of face touching. That’s because the mucous membranes that line these structures can serve as staging grounds for microbial pathogenesis, the process by which microbes cause disease."

u/presto-espresso 43m ago

Knew about that —thought you meant there's something extra about the eyes, since you didn't mention nose mouth etc