Avoiding Infection:

Covid 19 has promoted the sale of an endless variety of disinfectant sprays and wipes. You can't enter any establishment without somebody offering to disinfect your dirty hands.

This ritual can create a whole string of new problems. How dependent are we going to become on these commercial wipes? Will we be able to navigate safely within our day-to-day environment?

Is washing our hands and brushing our teeth all it takes to keep us free of dangerous microbes? 

There is a whole army of friendly microbes occupying all of the areas that could support bacterial colonies on and in our bodies. We should hope that these microbes leave no room for foreign bacteria to grow less friendly colonies.

Those of us who have taken antibiotics internally have found that we have lost the ability to easily digest food. This condition is usually temporary, but not always. It lasts only until the resident microbes are replaced, but it could be uncomfortable for a time.

We live in a microbic environment. Most of them are beneficial, or at least non-threatening. That means they occupy territory which would otherwise be open to invasion by microbes of indeterminate nature.

Using those wipes gives us at least a 50 percent chance of acquiring microscopic tenants not necessarily open to friendly co-existence. 

It's like leaving your front door unlocked and open to uninvited guests..