Everywhere you go now you see hand sanitizers setting around, warnings about germs, commercials about wiping off your doorknobs, faucet handles, telephones, etc. with disinfectants, people wearing surgical masks, and so on. Are we raising a society of germophobes who everyday are compromising their immune systems more and more by buying into this surgically sterile marketing hysteria? Here's a personal story I love to relate about germs:
When I was a kid growing up in Paulding County, we had a hand-dug well out back of the house. We did have indoor plumbing with an electric pump th