I know this to be true, and wash my hands often. My son prefers hand sanitizer and will get annoyed when I ask him to wash his hands, despite me telling him its better than hand sanitizer. He asked me why and honestly, I dont know. Killing 99.9% of germs seems like pretty good odds but its something to do with the scrubbing motion, right?
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>I know this to be true, and wash my hands often. My son prefers hand sanitizer and will get annoyed when I ask him to wash his hands, despite me telling him its better than hand sanitizer. He asked me why and honestly, I dont know. Killing 99.9% of germs seems like pretty good odds but its something to do with the scrubbing motion, right?
I completely understand how this may have gotten a bit lost during a pandemic, but killing microorganisms is not the point of washing your hands.
You wash your hands because you want to **remove** contaminants by rinsing them away. That *may* include microorganisms but is usually more readily applied to dirt, grease and all the fun bodily fluids that you, others, their pets and all the pigeons in the public park exude over the course of a day.
If you sanitize a hand covered in poo or dog hair you’ll have a hand covered in sterile poo and dog hair, not a clean hand.
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