Is someone a germaphobe if they wash their hands after using the bathroom?

Is someone who argues with false equivalence making himself look like a fool?

How are they not equivalent?

Two men are taking a piss in a public restroom. One finishes first and with a smug look strolls over to the sinks. "My father was a surgeon," he says, "He taught me the proper way to wash my hands. You see, most people just get a quick lather with soap then carelessly rinse it off, but most people are fools. I know better. First I wait for the water to get hot and take off all my rings and watch. Then with lathered soap I scrub under each individual fingernail. I then watch the clock to time washing each individual finger on each side. This takes no less than two minutes. Then, with hands raised above my elbows so that dirty water doesn't slide down them, I scrub each of my arms. After I am fully scrubbed to within an inch of my elbows, I rinse. But I don't rinse carelessly of course. First I rinse my fingertips, making sure to keep them above my elbows when I do so. I then rinse down my hands and arms, never backtracking and being careful to never let water run down my arms towards my hands, for that would soil my hands and I would have to start from the beginning again. With this technique, I can be sure my hands are truly clean." The other man zips, smirks, and walks out of the room. "My father taught me not to piss on my hands."

Jokes aside, do you wash your hands normally like 99% of the public, or do you do the full surgeon scrub each time? Still wearing a mask in late 2023 is like the full surgeon scrub, most people don't bother with that.

Perhaps most men don't actually scrub. Which is always gross to think about.

Or they have immunocompromised loved ones at home, or are vulnerable themselves despite looking healthy. It’s their health and passing judgement on them as neurotic or germophobic without knowing their situation is pretty shitty at best.

I’d posit that worrying excessively about someone else’s behavior that does not affect one’s own seems to align well with a neurotic personality type.

You maskers are all one and the same.

Enjoy your downd00ts here on HN, because no one in the real world will put up with another round of your lockdown masking nonsense.

They have another round of vaccines ready for you to beta test by the way. Enjoy!