seshat's blog post - Unexpected

Wow, I never thought my last blog entry would elicit so many (diverging) responses
But it was the same way at work yesterday when I brought up this subject, different colleagues (with kids) reacting entirely differently.
I would guess that it also has to do with how the parents were raised: my parents never 'trained' me to wash my hands or anything. I don't know if I was often sick as a child (I only remember repeated painful ear infections), but I'm rarely sick/ill as an adult, no allergies, so I guess it strengthened me or I was lucky
I've always considered fear of germs to be a very American thing, but the past few years it has become a big craze here too, Dettol and other disinfectants.

I'll leave you with a funny fact. Before being paranoid about toilet seats, remember this: the most germs can be found on computer keyboards (makes sense when you think about it) and on the bowls of peanuts in bars (often refilled, rarely washed).