I Wash My Hands Of You

Do you wash your hands after using the bathroom? No? Why the hell not? In the 1840s (the 1840s, folks, 160 years ago), Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis figured that washing hands before surgery would cut the infection rate of patients... and this was decades before germs were tagged as the cause of diseases. Our bodies harbor vast numbers of germs, and a lot of them just love to hang out in our nether regions. Here's a fun thing to know: human feces are 75% water, but of the remaining 25%, the majority is composed of live and dead bacteria. Yum! The simple act of washing your hands after getting rid of your latest quota of feces will get rid of the majority of those germs that might have made it, somehow, onto your hands. And from there to the flush handle, and to the doorknob, and to whatever else you touch ...