http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/06/how-not-to-catch-the-norovirus
Hand Washing
I am all for keeping clean, washing my hands and generally living a hygienic lifestyle. So with that in mind, I'd like to take this opportunity to explain my thoughts on the subject of cleanliness and hygiene, especially in the environment of the public or work toilets.
The process of washing your hands is to essentially remove the majority of germs from them after having excreted waste products from your body. I'd like to flush my thoughts on this subject out into the open. As I see it, once you have washed your hands, if you have used a cubicle to excrete your business into the wider world you then have the dilemma of how to get out of said cubicle, without making contact with the surfaces which are currently preventing you from leaving. Because, and this is the tricky part, even though you’ve just removed all or most of the offending creatures from your hands, you end up touching the door handle that gets you back into the ‘outside’ world. This means you’ve just added a whole new bunch of germs to the once dirty, now clean, now dirty again, hands. Then you wonder if you should start the whole process over again?
This hasn't caused me endless nights of worry but it’s no surprise to me that some people end up with OCD. It seems like an ever decreasing circle of contact with germs, soap and water. Where do you draw the line? Thats what I'd like to know? Wouldn’t it just be easier if we all wore (and occasionally changed...I’m not filthy you know!) gloves. That way we would never have to worry about the nightmare of making contact with both the germs and the things they’re living on.
Michael Jackson was half way there
with the one glove, but maybe that was because he either lost the other one or
was constantly having it washed. Whatever the case you'd have to say he was
starting something!
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