Just read a book called Did you Just eat That? by a Paul Dawson. In it, he discusses how many germs you can get by sharing popcorn, hand driers in bathrooms, etc.
he didn’t mention water fountains. I do use these, should I be worried?
No
Thanks for this. One thing it doesn’t address is that there are so many different kinds of drinking fountains. I would imagine some are better than others. (For example, the ones that worry me are the ones where the water pressure is so low, people are putting their mouths pretty much directly on the spigot to get a drink.)
Oh, that’s ridiculous.
If there were any real problems, people would be dropping like flies.
It’s like those inane studies that show that there are bacteria on your sponge. Duh. There are bacteria everywhere.
I knew a guy years ago who liked to go to auctions and get “good deals”. He went to a public school where everything was being auctioned off and he bought some old water fountains.
He installed the water fountains in several locations at his business. But he had a nasty habit of constantly clearing his throat and bringing up “phlegm”. Once the fountains were installed, he’d deposit his phlegm in the bowl of the fountain as he walked by. Fucking disgusting.
If you run a cotton swab over your tongue then paint a Petri dish with it, the results are horrifying. Some people even manage to grow real human pathogens this way. Yet, mostly, we still don’t die.
We are made of tough stuff.
Noooooooooo! No water fountains. My germ phobia will not allow this. Nope.
(I had this phobia waaaaayyyy before the COVID thing, I hate to say this: But… I told you so!!)