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Alcohol is even more toxic to you than it is to bacteria. Many forms of bacteria can handle solutions containing several percent alcohol. Human lethal intoxication on other hand is measured in fractions of a percent, and our individual cells are not much better off.
Alcohol is a reasonably effective and cheap surface disinfectant, and can be used to disinfect skin because unlike bacteria you have 10-30 layers of dead skincells between anything living and the alcohol. If it wasn’t for those layers of dead cells it would be extremely painful and probably do more harm than good.
Centuries ago alcohol was somtimes used to clean open wounds. But then the same people were also using rods of red hot iron for the same purpose. We’ve gotten way better alternatives to both of those methods
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