Germaphobe's Sanatorium

The Germaphobe. Do you know this guy? Well, I do. A friend of mine is a constantly mortified germaphobe. Often, I listen to his complaints as he is shell shocked by the amount of dangerous and dastardly germs that are out to get him when he's in a public place. Nevertheless, my friend and Adrian Monk bring up good points (You should consider watching, "Monk" the tv show for some hilariously brilliant obsessive compulsive germaphobe detective-crime-mystery action).

There are things that almost turn me into a spasmatic germaphobe too. For instance, a public bathroom in the cities of major population centers like San Francisco in "Monk". When in el bano, do you touch all the doors, the stalls, the toilets, the sinks? NO! They're gross and crawling with STD's, cancer, heartattacks, malaria, and the black death/bubonic plague. Ok, just kidding, but everything within a commonly used public restroom can be rather disgusting and bacteria-covered. For all the germaphobes and semi-germaphobes out there, your not alone. Its ok to be disgusted by things like this- it's probably an evolutionary adaptation. But random evolutionary theories aside, I think Monk is right. What about you?

Either way, beware the public restroom! I think the surgeon general should put up a warning to "all ye who enter here" into el bano. However, the avoidance of germs and sicknesses has proven to lower the ability of the immune system. Without getting sick with the Rhino Virus (common cold) every now and then, our immune system weakens. And when that disease strikes again, it'll really be like the black death to your body. Thus, humans need to get sick once in a while to keep up the strength of their immune system.

Ending on a heavier note, bacteria and diseases have become more and more powerful throughout the years. These simple little life forms have been adapting to our medicine cabinet. Biologists predict that within 50 years, penicillin and other common anti-bacterial wonder drugs will be obsolete. We will be back in the dark ages and into a time where the infection of a cut means death! So all ye beware!