That's a load of crap.  

:) Love it Dubbles ...

Crap to the left, germs to the right,

Bacteria looming, scientists glooming.

Diseases are booming, death is ballooning.

Qualify, quantify, a solution we cry,

Wash your hands you great fool,

A very old tool.

No offence intended to anyone, plus the usual disclaimers.

I always wash the top of cans b4 I open them --always wash hands b4 eating or preparing food and I wash down the milk bottles etc b4 I put it in the fridge after buying.

I am very aware that the things mentioned are full of germs, including  Money / the Mobile phone / etc -- always wash hands.   I try very hard not to touch my face while out after touching things.

Also IF at any time I have to cough etc I ALWAYS cough down the front of my clothes NOT INTO MY HAND OR ELBOW

Money is also one the dirtiest things to handle, but I am more than happy to take my chances while on the receiving end.

If we were that cautious the bugs would live on.

My son and his wife were ultra careful ---everything was spotless, disinfected and bleached.

The first time that they took my granddaughter to Fiji she met germs and they had to come home as she was violently ill.

With children it has been proved that baby carseat covers etc. carry a lot of bacteria. It may not be easy remvoing and re-fitting them but the covers on most can be removed and washed.

pb tom, there are some places it pays to carry hand sanitizer. For people who throught no fault of their own who have low immunity - autoimmune diseases for example, they may not have lived in sterile/near sterile conditions who as kids played in the dirt, put all sorts of things all over themselves they were allowed to be kids and bathed or sponge washed at night - lets face it you didn't want that in your beds. I have a nephew who did that as a child, but now has a genetic autoimmune disease. They may not have the right tests orgainsed by Drs. and only have symptoms at odd times. We don't know if his children will develop the same problem or not.

Things like cans of drink often get dusty while sitting in warehouses waiting to be packaged or on shop shelves. 

Aren't germs good for us? Obviously some aren't but there are a hell of a lot of them out there in our environment that we all seem to cope with OK and I've heard that contact with them builds our immune systems. I'm not going to get my nickers in a knot about what I'm touching all day but I am a stickler for washing hands after going to the toilet.

Thank you! My daughter has M.S. And us in a chomo drug. Carry antiseptic all the time for shopping trolleys, money ( all the normal things!) but never once did she think about a Coke can ( never thought about wiping down milk either!). 

Very interesting , thanks!

I was always very clean with my Son when he was a tot -- but he still was allowed to play in the creek and get dirty like normal but was always bathed and had clean clothes after.

Yes I always carry hand cleaner and baby wipes to use b4 I eat out and hate those blower hand dryers,  I take my own small towel.

This set me thinking..I too am a great believer in handwashing but when I wash my hands it bought to my attention the recepticle on most peoples sinks that hold the handwashing liquid...

It has to be touched to release the soap..

Maybe we should wash our hands before washing our hands...

I hate to be reminded what dirty little grubs some of us where as kids, playing in the street all day clambering up trees and playing marbles in the gutter...

I'll stop there...thats enough to be going on with..... :)

Must admit with chronic health problems (despite my silly verse above) I'm a wash/wash, sanitiser freak. 

The thing that gets up my nose (literally at times) are those who cough in abandon, e.g. kids over fruit & veg plus everything else in the supermarkets; retail staff who cough all over the counter and your credit card but most of all a pharmacy assistant who coughed all over my husband's meds after I'd told her he had a massively reduced immune system due to cancer chemo, stem cell transplants, etc.

Result > I got whatever she had (despite trying to 'clean' meds containers), 3 days later, passed it on to hubby although I tried everything I knew to avoid that. Hubby into ICU. Could have all been avoided if the pharmacy lady in question had either stayed home while sick, worn a mask, moved away to cough/cover etc etc.

A little 'germ' consideration can go a long way in some circumstances.

I watch now to see if the checkout operator licks her fingers when she opens the bags, as I know she will touch my groceries and I am not impressed. I sometimes have to wait longer to get through the checkout, because of changing lines or I use the self serve IF any empty. 

Can't stop breathing though, and probably get more germs from other people's out breathing, by breathing in, ourselves in confined spaces or in crowds than we do touching anything.