What Are We Becoming?

What is going on?

Why are you afraid to touch the soap dispenser in your own home? Yah, the pump of the soap dispenser probably does have a lot of germs on it, but you know what? You wash your hands AFTER you touch the dispenser! You don't touch the dispenser then put your hands in your mouth right? You wash the germs from the dispenser off your hands...

Hand towel dispenser? That can't be good for the environment can it? That seems like an awful lot of waste. And again, in your own home? Chances are if someone in your house is sick, you are gonna get sick - unless your IMMUNE SYSTEM protects you (that's what its for). You hug and kiss your family - you touch them a lot when they are sick checking for fevers or rubbing away the chills. You are also breathing the same air they are - germs go out of them and into you.

I work in a research office with lots of doctors and patients. People come in sick, and yes, when they do, when I give them forms to fill out and they give them back - I put a little pump of Purell on or wash my hands. I don't do this with every single patient - I only do it when they are visibly sick.

I also give myself a little pump of Purell before entering the hospital - which I also visit daily. It is not to protect me from everyone else - it is to protect the sick people with weak immune systems from germs I may not know I'm carrying.

You want to know what else? I take the bus. I touch the bus seats, I touch the handles, the doors, the poles. Then I get off the bus, buy my coffee and press the lid on where I put my mouth with my dirty hands. And you know what? I rarely get sick. You know why? Because I HAVE AN IMMUNE SYSTEM. That is what my immune system is for! An immune system is like a muscle. If you don't let it fight off some common colds once in a while - it gets weak. And then you DO get sick - and that, my friends, is how "super bugs" are born. Flex your immune system muscles people - it will do you some good!