Hand sanitiser? Oh I didn't see your scrubs, didn't realise you were going in to perform a delicate operation.

Went to the chemist today and saw a sign that got my blood boiling. It basically said (roughly translated) 'use this hand sanitiser to prevent the spread the H1M1 virus'. This is completely bullshit and just preying on people's ignorance and misinformation about bacteria, viruses and diseases. First of all, hand sanitiser kills bacteria, it cannot, and does not, kill viruses. And what is H1NI? A virus. I don't know why people feel the need to use hand sanitiser every two minutes. People need to stop and realise that we have survived for millenia without ever needing hand sanitiser. Things like hand sanitiser and the overuse of antibiotics just promotes the development and proliferation of superbugs, because only those bugs that survive the onslaught will multiply, creating super resistant bacteria that many of the best antibiotics cannot kill. This whole super clean, disinfected world we now live in also promotes things like allergies (that's a whole other story right there) and serious infections, since our immune systems are so weak and unused to foreign invasion that the smallest infection can be serious.

So do me, yourself, and the world a favour and throw out the hand sanitisers. All it does is dehydrate your hands and cost you a fortune.