「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)4d ago

Am I right to be afraid of germs / is my family disgusting or am I overreacting and this is germaphobia? (read post)

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Am I right to be afraid of germs / is my family disgusting or am I overreacting and this is germaphobia? (read post) - sh.itjust.works

So my parents take the trash can and put it TOUCHING the table where you put food… in order to clear the table, and sometimes they FORGET TO WASH THEIR HANDS after TOUCHING THE TRASH CAN and then start touching other stuff… sometimes even cooking stuff… one time I even saw the trash can ON TOP OF THE FUCKING TABLE so its supposedly easier to put the stuff into the teash can… And even if they wash their hands… they often times (most of the time) DO NOT USE SOAP… Sometimes they take the trash can and move it around to collect trash WHILE INGREDIENTS ARE LYING AROUND… like what if you accidentally stuff from the trash can just like… hops over the gap and contaminate stuff? Like dont fucking get the trash can so close to food FFS Also they sometimes (VERY OFTEN) don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom… I hear them touching the bathroom lids… Also they put used toilet paper in a trash can… sometimes I hears mom touch that trash can withou t washing hands… My parents tell me I’m being germophobic… I’m not crazy am I? Is this just how most people life? The fuck?

Show threadcecilkorik4d ago

I subscribe to the George Carlin immunity theory. Your immune system is not a perfect machine, but it’s evolved for thousands of years to be able to defend us against the bad germs we are exposed to. Key phrase there is exposed to. If you are never exposed to at least small amounts of germs, your immune system has no training and will be unable to respond effectively to real threats, or it will freak out and panic at minor threats, making you sick from things that wouldn’t even bother someone else, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In George Carlin’s monologue, which I think is faithfully reproduced in text form here he makes the observation that for his whole childhood he swam in the Hudson River with raw sewage, and he never gets sick. The point he makes is most people’s immune systems cower and hide when they encounter an unknown pathogen, meanwhile his immune system is patrolling his body with automatic rifles and grenades and a shoot-first-ask-questions-later policy.

Most germophobia is sold to us by cleaning product companies (through government representatives that they own). It’s all a fucking scam, they want to convince us to do things that make us sick and then sell us the cures and have the cures also make us sick so they can sell us cures for that too.

Thousands of years of evolution may not be perfect, but I trust it more than I trust these fucking corporate fucks, that’s for sure.

The Immunity About-Face

In a performance recorded in 1992, George Carlin says

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Show threadstarlinguk4d ago
OP isn’t a germophobe. Has anyone who says this actually looked at the pictures?
Show threadBlindFrog

Ikr, some people are like, “yum, this is the kind of lowest standard quality establishment I would totally eat. Soap? Handwashing? What is that?”

Preventing cross contamination is just responsible hygiene

I wipe down my trash can at least every other time I take out the trash, or else the residue of something left behind starts stinking it up worse than it should be.

Mar 19 at 1:19amWeb