You are going to get sick. You might as well just give in.
Most hand sanitizers and disinfecting wipes claim to kill 99% of germs. Which sounds great. Until you start to think about it. A quick look at your average day only proves it's a miracle we aren't all dead of the Black Plague.
Escalator Handrail: 3,000,000 Germs
After dousing yourself in hand sanitizer, you're still walking away with 30,000 germs on your hands. But at least you got to the office.
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Keyboard: 288,000 Germs
Despite a quick aerosol spray, your morning LolCat perusal just netted you another 2,880 possible flu viruses.
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Office Desk: 10,000,000 Germs
Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things since 1% of the germs crawling all over your desk numbers around 100,000.
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