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Originally Posted by meeera
...and have never lived through a significant communicable disease outbreak in your community. (You don't even wash your hands before you eat? You never go to the toilet outside of your house?)
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Communicable disease outbreaks (mostly respiratory tract infections and influenza) are very common here throughout the year, except for midsummer. But I've rarely gotten them and when I have, then mostly by direct contact with a sick person. Most people get infected this way, by being in the proximity of those already ill. A sanitizer wouldn't help in that case, as these kinds of infections spread through air (true, influenza can survive on surfaces, but the majority of infections are still gotten by close contact). I guess tropical climate is another story, as infections and how they spread are different there (I don't travel). Coronavirus spreads mostly by droplets as well.
I don't know anyone who regularly gets infections from touching a surface in public and I also don't know anyone who uses hand sanitizers in public. But then there are no immunosuppressed persons among my acquaintances, at least to my knowledge. Still, getting an infection through air is always a bigger risk here even for immunosuppressed people, especially if they use public transport.