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Re:Why is it so hard to swat a fly? by adekok on Sunday September 17, 2017 @09:42AM (#15269541)
1) catch a fly and wash your hands

2) see the fly walk over your food, your face, your kids food...

Do you want to touch a "dirty" fly, or eat what the fly has walked on?

I'll take #1 any day.

Re:Why is it so hard to swat a fly? by gbog on Sunday September 17, 2017 @09:55AM (#15269602)
3) Do not care at all, and consider that our bodies are pretty well tuned to handle such thing as a few particles of foreign excrement (or other dirty things).

Seriously, we have become irrational animals afraid of everything. (I would wash my hand after splashing a fly if there was a rotten corpse around, though, and would have done even without the fly because my nose would have alerted me of a chemical danger.)