Have We Become Too Sanitized?

This morning I was thinking of this very question and with good reason.  We have been told in the past that hospitals are the perfect breeding grounds for bacteria to develop because of the sanitization done daily in the hospitals.   We were told how clean surfaces were new breeding grounds for bacteria because the previous bacteria was wiped away.

Now we are being told to sanitize the surfaces in our homes, our cars, our stores and the list goes on and on.  I was in Food Basics in Simcoe, and the cashier moves from one cash register to the one next to it so the one just used is wiped down.  The cashier moves back and forth.  In Walmart, the cashiers will take five customers, than move to another cash area so that a cleaner can wipe down the cash area.   As you walk into stores, all the shopping carts have been wiped down and cleaned, and all cash areas or counter areas where customers come in contact with a store clerk, there are plexy-glass barriers set up -- ridiculously called "spit guards".

Now think upon this point.  After so many years of being told that hospitals are breeding grounds for bacteria, we are now being told that all the surfaces we use must be and should be wiped clean as often as possible so the bacteria is cleared away and the surface is clean as if it were a hospital.  Think upon that one for awhile.  Let the logic sink in and float around in your head.

People drive to cleaning centers, get out of their cars, let a cleaning person wipe down the surfaces in their car and sanitize the car.  The the person gets back into their cleaned car with the same ungloved hands they drove up to the center with, and drive away.  What common sense has prevailed here?  What doesn't the person understand?  They get their vehicle cleaned and get back in and the bacteria they left their vehicle with is now back in only on a cleaner surface making it more habitable for bacteria to grow even faster.

As we sanitize, we are creating new breeding grounds for bacteria to develop.  This point or fact was born out years ago when it was discovered that hospitals were so clean that they were the perfect space to breed bacteria.  Now we have ignored that fact or point and have transferred it to our own homes and vehicles and everywhere else.  The reality of a clean surface is not there and never was there.  This is why I keep saying that we are being ruled by fear and that that fear is being perpetuated by the government and news medias.

If we really want a clean surface, we must be cleaning constantly every few minutes.  It is not practical.  We fail to allow our immune systems to effectively work the way they are suppose to work.   We have been made into a society that fears each other, that fears going outside, that fears to be in their own space.