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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t wash my hands after being in public places like that but I do use hand sanitizer I keep in the car afterward. I learned the importance of this when my kids got much less sick after I made them use hand sanitizer after being in public places. You might be in the minority but that’s okay. You probably get sick a lot less often. [/quote]
Actually he gets sick way less than me. I haven't been sick in almost a couple of years because of covid. But prior to covid, he got sick way less. I never got sick as a kid, because my parents had me wash my hands - so I think getting sick once or twice a year as an adult has more to do with poor diet/stress/drinking too much alcohol and caffeine. [/quote]

[b]Oh actually you probably get sick more because your parents were so vigilant about hand washing and you didn’t develop as many immunities as most kids do.[/b] So if you didn’t wash your hands as much now, I bet you would get sick more.

(I’m not talking about the hygiene hypothesis here, in case anybody was curious, and I do make my kids wash their hands frequently)[/quote]
This is what my boyfriend claims but when I say I rarely got sick as a kid I mean I had about one cold/bug per year. My mom claims I had a couple of ear infections as a preschooler, and I had strep once, but that's about it. So that's why I've chalked it up to just being an overworked, overstressed adult haha.But you're right, I think if I didn't wash my hands now I would definitely get sick more! 
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