BTW, regardless of my skepticism on what is the perfect balance balance of time spent hand-washing, I will note that this post and discussion has done at least two things:
1) caused me to increase my hand-washing by about 75% (spending about 33% more time, about 33% more often).
2) spent more time in reading and thinking about it than just washing my hands a lot more would have taken in a year.
So, I’m either more knowledgeable and safer, OR wasting even more time than I otherwise would. Thanks?
BTW, regardless of my skepticism on what is the perfect balance balance of time spent hand-washing, I will note that this post and discussion has done at least two things:
1) caused me to increase my hand-washing by about 75% (spending about 33% more time, about 33% more often).
2) spent more time in reading and thinking about it than just washing my hands a lot more would have taken in a year.
So, I’m either more knowledgeable and safer, OR wasting even more time than I otherwise would. Thanks?
Hey, at least (2) is good rationality practice. :P