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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Nah, I seriously doubt there are many people out there who are actually scared (hell, I've known actual germaphobes who will still shake hands, because that's what you're supposed to do)... another alternative that makes much more sense is that people recognize hand shakes are a germ spreader, mostly because people are incapable of washing their hands and not touching their face.
And yeah, that's (usually) not life or death or anything, and we all still do it, and I doubt many people immediately sanitize their hand after or have nightmares about getting sick, or whatever other hyperbole.... but, it does spread germs for a largely pointless act.
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Welcome to your POV.
Though, from my perspective, being worried about someone touching their face, or 'germs' in general, as a healthy adult, is ridiculous. Americans have been conditioned to be wary of 'germs' like one 'germ' is going to get you somehow. If that were the case, there wouldn't be a human race. Every time you hold hands with your gf/bf/wife/whatever, kiss, hell, every time your mother patted you on the head there were germs involved. Your body kills them off 99.9999% of the time. Whoop-de-doo.
There are germs on you right now. On everyone you know. There are germs on virtually every surface in your house, car, at work, on your food, everywhere. The phone your using to write posts right now is covered in germs. Or your keyboard or whatever. Oh God, what should we do?
Nothing. your body deals with germs everyday, all day, 365/7/24.
you might as well worry about being struck by lightning.