EASY LIFESTYLE IMPROVEMENTS
Don't eat food directly off the counter top or table top.
You wouldn't slice a tomato or egg directly on the counter top. It
would pick up something: some little particle of dust or dirt.
Treat bread the same way. Always on a new clean surface, such
as a plate. The counter and table top have on them whatever is in
the kitchen dust and on the wipe cloth. Dust is always falling!
And the sponge is always culturing. Don't eat the dust!
Keep the cutting board sterile like dishes. Wash it the same
way and keep it in the cupboard.
Keep food containers closed. Milk or water glasses are
picking up dust as soon as you set them out. Dust is everywhere.
Every step on the carpet sends up a puff of dust. Vacuuming
sends up a hurricane of dust and distributes bathroom dust to the
kitchen and kitchen dust to the bedrooms. So if one person has
brought in a new infection, the whole family is exposed to it in
hours via the dust.
It is very helpful not to eat the new infectious pathogen.
Breathing it is not so damaging. Our noses collect such pathogens
and we blow them out again. Touching the infected person is not
very damaging either; the pathogens can't get through our skins
and since we wash hands before eating we are not at great risk of
infection this way. But eating the pathogen is 100% effective in
infecting us. The new pathogen is in the dust. The newly
contaminated dust drops into your ready and waiting glasses on
the table and the open foods. Of course, there is no defense if
somebody should cough or sneeze at the table.
Teach children to cough and sneeze into a suitable col-
lecting place like a tissue, not their hands. Pathogens live
bountifully on hands. Hands not only provide moisture but often
food from the last meal. Hands are second only to the dish cloth
in contamination level. If you must cough or sneeze and a tissue
is not within reach fast enough, use your clothing! That's what
clothing is for—to protect you. Cough and sneeze into your own
clothing; this protects the cougher and sneezer, as well as eve-