You versus germs

Because you are erroneously scared that germs give you a disease:

• You don’t want to be around someone with a sniffle or a cough.

• You don’t ever pick up food that fell off your plate and you reject anything a fly landed on.

• You worry whether you have washed your hands quite enough, whether the soap was strong enough and if the towel was clean.

• You cover the toilet seat with toilet paper lest your bottom touches where someone else’s has been.

• You worry about running out of disinfectant, antiseptic wipes, facemasks and other germ-prevention paraphernalia.

• You convince yourself any ailment will have been caused by an accidental ingress of a pathetic microbe and exclude every other possible cause.

• You will require to take something to kill the offending germs but somehow it must leave the good-guy germs intact.

• You think the naughty germ which is the root cause of your malady somehow tricked your internal defences and your immunity system so now a war is raging as evidenced by your symptoms.

• You think there is a strange dichotomy that divides germs into the good-guys that do wonderful work like digesting food and bad-guys that exist just to make you ill.

• You think germs come in district and mysterious kinds called bacteria, archaea, protozoa, fungi, algae, lichens, slime molds, viruses, and prions.

• You constantly worry whether you deploy the correct amount of energy guarding against this invisible enemy and perhaps whether deploying too much might lead to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

• You are very fearful of radically new kinds of germs your body isn’t used to being found in the food or water of exotic holiday locations waiting to give you Delhi-belly or some other local digestive disorder.

• You worry about not being readily equipped with a suitable medication to deal with an unexpected problem because your body couldn’t possibly manage this task without help.

• You think there is one specific germ that is the cause of one specific illness and this can be readily identified by any worthwhile professional doctor who can deploy a specific medication to deal with this exact problem that will have no secondary ill-effects.

• You never question how is was decided six feet is exactly far enough away to be from someone with unfavourable germs.

• You never wonder how if one person is required to infect another person with a germ how the first person ever got infected.

• You never wonder how very dangerous germs can sit quietly inside you needing to be incubated for a while (or sometimes ages) before they suddenly pop up to make you ill.

• You never question how it is possible for a germ that is able to make someone else ill can be inside you asymptomatically and give you no problems at all.

• You don’t wonder why an injection designed to protect you from a certain germ won’t work unless everyone else has the same injection.

• You don’t wonder why an injection designed to protect you from a germ won’t stop you getting the illness caused by the germ or passing on the illness, it will only make the resulting illness less potent.

• You think people’s private parts must be riddled with germs but if you are lucky enough to indulge in oral sex with them you never wonder why you were not then stricken with countless illnesses.

• You are very content with your overall general knowledge of germs causing diseases so you have no reason to suspect you could be wrong especially when so many other people believe the exact same thing.

• You don’t ever walk into a pharmacy-type shop with an absolutely huge and dazzling number of available things to buy and think there is a lot of money to be made by making you think your body can’t deal with an illness on its own, so keeping you convinced about germs is very useful and profitable.

• You wouldn’t dare drink raw cows’ milk because it could contain germs that need killing by pasteurisation despite these never harming a calf and you never wonder why this thinking somehow doesn’t apply to raw human milk.

• You think your body has to be maintained in tip-top condition for fighting germs by periodically being injected with a taster of a similar germ or one that got sort of disabled in its illness-causing capacity.

• You never wonder why germs causing all sorts of newly found diseases never seemed to exist to cause the same thing in the olden days.

• You think your body is quite feeble at fighting germs unless bolstered by pharmaceuticals given from birth and throughout your life until you die.

• You think people who have discovered by ruthless experimentation and research that germ theory is a lot of nonsense must be a little bit strange and misled despite this view usually being very professionally-damaging for them to promote.

• You would doubtless think a website like Reality of Illness has an ulterior motive in trying convince you germs are nothing whatsoever to worry about.

But if this is not you, but you know people who do think this way please try to make them see how silly they are.