Image: Shutterstock I haven’t written about germs lately, and since my Substack is supposed to be about fear of germs and the safety culture, I thought it might be overdue. During the COVID pandemic, the world was drowned in a flood of hand sanitizer. At my daughters’ school, every classroom had a tower dispenser right at the door, and kids were forced to apply every time they entered the room. Some kids took things even further, likely encouraged by their parents, keeping an extra bottle at their desk, applying routinely. My daughter told me one boy’s hands became so dry and chapped in the winter that they began to bleed.
I often throw bottles of handsanitiser in the trash can, if there is one around. This stuff is toxic, doesn’t really do “the job” as it kills good bacteria as well as bad, causes skin rashes, dry cracked skin which can then become infected. Nope ain’t using the stuff and try to get others to USE THE SOAP.💕
Years ago, when hand sanitizer first became available for the public, I caught my mom, in a public washroom, bypassing the sink and pulling hand sanitizer out of her purse. I had to explain to her that hand sanitizer was for situations where you had no soap and water, and that she should be washing her hands properly. She had assumed hand sanitizer was superior. I’m sure she’s not the only one.
I remember when the Covid "BS first started, I initially fell for some of the propaganda and was wiping off door knobs and light switches in our house. You would have thought that it was "death on contact" the way they presented everything. The plague reborrn. I soon wised up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Makes me wonder if all this covid nonsense will ever end. What will the media do without all-things-covid to write about? Other than Trump all day every day of course :)
Thank you for this critical information. I have dry hands to begin with, to the point that I doubt anything could survive on that barren desert, and hand sanitizers only compound it. I avoid it at all possibilities, and will now ask whether it contains methanol, and an “I don’t know” will be grounds to refuse.
I havn't decided what to replace viruses with but I certainly no longer believe in them.
In regards to the doctors surgery thankfully mine has reverted back to the pre 2020 policy in regards to masks in the last few weeks. I think even some of the doctors there couldn't stand the previous policy on masks.
I am more concerned about eColi than a cold virus! No idea whether hand sanitizer, which as with everything else medically newly invented over a span of a few months actually works, I doubt effectiveness!
"However, articles reporting the lack of efficacy of hand sanitizer received very little recognition in the media."
Yep, but before the covid panic, those articles were everywhere. The subject was a perennial favorite among bored consumer reporters, right up there with sending stuff to a lab to prove that [fill in the blank: your kitchen counter, your toothbrush, your phone...] has more germs on it than a toilet seat.
Those pre-covid articles mocked the use of hand sanitizers, instructing us that to do any good at all you had to rub it in for 10 minutes and follow up with soap and water. "Hahaha, you dumb un-scientist rubes are still throwing your money away on hand sanitizer. Hahahahaha!"
This was a very good article. I only wish that author Steve Templeton had indicated whether hand sanitizer has any value at all. For example, when there is no soap and water available, is it worth using? What about for bacterial infections that are transmitted by manual contact? In any case, keep writing, Dr. T.!
I often throw bottles of handsanitiser in the trash can, if there is one around. This stuff is toxic, doesn’t really do “the job” as it kills good bacteria as well as bad, causes skin rashes, dry cracked skin which can then become infected. Nope ain’t using the stuff and try to get others to USE THE SOAP.💕
I have acquired boxloads of free sanitiser since the Covidsheep mass psychosis era.
I mainly use them to aid in the lighting of my barbecues - they work brilliantly !
I told my kids to “ fake it” whenever they could and go to the school washroom instead to use soap and water.
Years ago, when hand sanitizer first became available for the public, I caught my mom, in a public washroom, bypassing the sink and pulling hand sanitizer out of her purse. I had to explain to her that hand sanitizer was for situations where you had no soap and water, and that she should be washing her hands properly. She had assumed hand sanitizer was superior. I’m sure she’s not the only one.
Good article linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
I remember when the Covid "BS first started, I initially fell for some of the propaganda and was wiping off door knobs and light switches in our house. You would have thought that it was "death on contact" the way they presented everything. The plague reborrn. I soon wised up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Makes me wonder if all this covid nonsense will ever end. What will the media do without all-things-covid to write about? Other than Trump all day every day of course :)
Thank you for this critical information. I have dry hands to begin with, to the point that I doubt anything could survive on that barren desert, and hand sanitizers only compound it. I avoid it at all possibilities, and will now ask whether it contains methanol, and an “I don’t know” will be grounds to refuse.
I havn't decided what to replace viruses with but I certainly no longer believe in them.
In regards to the doctors surgery thankfully mine has reverted back to the pre 2020 policy in regards to masks in the last few weeks. I think even some of the doctors there couldn't stand the previous policy on masks.
At stores, employees would force it on people's hands at the entryways. I would very openly wipe it off my hands on my skirt.
I am more concerned about eColi than a cold virus! No idea whether hand sanitizer, which as with everything else medically newly invented over a span of a few months actually works, I doubt effectiveness!
"However, articles reporting the lack of efficacy of hand sanitizer received very little recognition in the media."
Yep, but before the covid panic, those articles were everywhere. The subject was a perennial favorite among bored consumer reporters, right up there with sending stuff to a lab to prove that [fill in the blank: your kitchen counter, your toothbrush, your phone...] has more germs on it than a toilet seat.
Those pre-covid articles mocked the use of hand sanitizers, instructing us that to do any good at all you had to rub it in for 10 minutes and follow up with soap and water. "Hahaha, you dumb un-scientist rubes are still throwing your money away on hand sanitizer. Hahahahaha!"
The only virus I observed that escaped Wuhan was Communism. We thought masks and sanitizer would save us, we lost our way....
https://open.substack.com/pub/dee746/p/germaphobe?r=1g1b1r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
This was a very good article. I only wish that author Steve Templeton had indicated whether hand sanitizer has any value at all. For example, when there is no soap and water available, is it worth using? What about for bacterial infections that are transmitted by manual contact? In any case, keep writing, Dr. T.!