I can’t be the only one who recoils in horror at the thought of TOUCHING THE SCREEN! It’s like going to the toilet and not washing your hands after. I’m sure people do it, but..ew.
Touch things with your hands. Your body literally needs it to be healthy. Avoiding it ONLY makes you sicker in the end.
But if you’re asking if we should try to cram more than usual in there, I couldn’t tell you. I’m not an immunologist, so I don’t know how easy it is or is not to overload it, nor if it even works for all types of contagious infection agents. Some are probably highly resistant to gastric environments.
I totally agree with exposing immune system...but at the same time, I guess I am weak enough that there is still downtime in the aftermath when I go out into the city(especially during seasonal transitions and when visiting busy packed rooms).
You don't have to have the other extreme of touching every dirty spot especially in a org like mcdonalds which is more likely than not to have people who dont respect basic hygiene. At the same time you dont need the extreme of not touching anything. There is a middle ground.
There is a reason we ask people to wash their hands.
You're immune system is probably not going to improve on exposure to worm eggs or larvae for example.
To take it to an absurd extreme, if you come across an unflushed public toilet you're not going to drink from it with the hope of boosting your immune system... are you?
I’m arguing against being overly-concerned with hygiene to the point that you cannot even handle touching everyday objects without a significant disgust factor. You’re talking about licking toilets. Come on bro.
> Come on bro.
Yep, you're right, there's probably a bit of that on there too.
Sugar in sodas, burger buns and ketchup for example is linked to type 2 diabetes.
But the point I was making clearly wasn’t about restaurants being healthy. It was about fast food joints being especially unhealthy.
In that case you will end up healthier after a Mcdonalds, too.
You said
> Can’t be any worse than the contents of the food they’re ordering
I think addition of some E coli or whatnot from screen prints makes a McD meal much worse but sure YMMV.
Depends on specific instance of malnutrition. If it’s lack of calories, then yes you’d be right. But that’s not what most people in the west suffer from.
> I think addition of some E coli or whatnot from screen prints makes a McD meal much worse but sure YMMV.
To be honest it was a flippant remark. I was expecting to get downvoted for elitism. Wasn’t expecting a genuine discussion about hygiene and nutrition.
But fair play, you’ve made some interesting points.
A touch screen would be actually better than a laptop, but android tablet won't cut it (we make some of the test hardware so are in control of the drivers, but for most of it we don't)