Germs!
This is a favorite topic and one that brings fear to a lot of
people. I couldn’t resist checking on a
few statistics (you know how much I love them) to see where we stand on
germs. I found some interesting numbers
and I’m still undecided if knowing this much about germs is a good thing or a
bad thing! But one thing is for sure
that there were a lot of surprises for me.
I found and took a quick “how many germs are on your
keyboard” test. The result –
2,876,160! Of course the test could be
rigged to freak you out. I can’t help
thinking that if there were that many germs on my keyboard I’d be sick all the
time – and I’m not.
I found another site that had some amazing statistics on
everybody’s favorite subject – the toilet seat:
·
Steering wheels have 9 times more germs than a
toilet seat
·
Computer keyboards have 5 times more germs than
a toilet seat
·
A desk has 400 times more germs than a toilet
seat (why I wonder?)
·
A phone has 18 times more germs than a toilet
seat
·
Kitchen sponges and sinks have more germs than a
toilet seat (I think we all knew that one)
·
Restaurant ice cubes may have more germs than a
toilet seat (don’t even want to think about that)
·
Shopping carts have more germs than public
restrooms and escalators
Clearly people we need to rethink our attitude about toilet
seats and escalators (really?) apparently.
It seems that in every article I read on the internet the kitchen sponge
leads all lists as having the most germs!
I can’t find any definite number about germs on a toilet seat but most
articles say that the bathroom floor is germier (pretty sure that’s not a word but I like it anyway).
So here I sit at my writing space surrounded by a germ
ridden keyboard, desk and phone and I’m not bothered in the least. Now if I could actually see the creepy
critters crawling all over my stuff, then war would be declared and Lysol
would be sold by the gallons!
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