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HANDI WIPES

There is a new thing in my supermarket.

At the entrance is a dispenser for sanitary wipes.

They are 'placed for your safety and convenience'.

I am not sure whether it is meant to protect me (wipe the handle of the cart that I am pushing) or to protect other customers from me and my germ laden hands; my filthiness.

There is something about this that irks me. It is like the big daddy social engineering bullshit we see all over today. Taking care of people because they cannot take care of themselves.

Maybe it is a response to the impending pandemic. I have news for them. There is a virus there and the little sanitary stuff won't kick it.

Anyway, I am not going to use them.

My question is 'what is in the wipes?'; 'some chemical that will penetrate my body and make me sick?'

See, paranoia is contagious.

It is like the sunscreen thing.

I live in a high uv environment. One thing to do is to be careful about exposure. That is why desert rats always head to the shade when the stop to talk.

Others swab these chemicals on their bodies to protect them from the sun without a single thought about what the swab creams and oils are doing to their skin.

I don't get it.

I believe that there is altogether too much attention to sanitation. You need to build up antibodies and if everything is germ free that ain't going to happen.