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Low level exposure is usually a good thing, it builds the immune response before there are too many bugs to make you ill, repeated very low level even better. A big dose, such as being next to a sneezing sufferer or shaking their hand (before or after symptoms) is another thing.

Ever noticed your doctor never (well hardly ever) shakes your hand? And they are usually "on duty" despite seeing many contagious people every day.

Hygiene is important but if taken to silly levels as it is today does lead to trouble, just look at the increasing number of allergic people about,. Take the caveman, not a lot of washing but infrequent contact with distant cave people, that is how our immune system evolved. Not being smelly is a rather recent thing (last 100 years maybe) I wonder what that may do in the future? (I do wash and like not to be smelly by the way).

so will I, none at all (now when will that thing from China arrive).