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Re:Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic by papito on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:45PM (#26986466)
Sanitizing your hands every five minutes is obviously a disorder, but I don't understand why on HN the downvote army is triggered by suggesting that you should have clean hands before eating food.
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Re:Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic by userbinator on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:26PM (#26988115)
The question is, how clean is "clean"? Obviously in these pandemic times the answer is different, but clearly plenty of people were having no problems before.

In fact I would go as far as saying that breathing is a more common route of entry for pathogens than eating. The stomach contains concentrated hydrochloric acid.

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