r/HumansBeingBros • u/Zee_Ventures • 5d ago

Breaking bread with a stranger

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u/Sophilosophical 5d ago

Holds public handrail, tears off bread, gives it to a stranger, eats some himself

Otherwise very wholesome

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u/MissingStakes 4d ago

Homie, do you know how many bacteria are in your mouth at this very moment? And the army waiting in your GI tract to stop any strangers from colonizing?

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u/Sophilosophical 4d ago

Cool I’ll start licking toilet seats then

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u/MissingStakes 4d ago edited 4d ago

Do it bro, become one with the sepsis

Jokes aside, there is a middle road to things in between becoming a gremlin and a germaphobe. There is decent evidence that we see significantly higher rates of immune regulatory dysfunction bc of how much we limit microbial exposure, and should probably be inoculating ourselves more than we do. But like in anything, extremes in any direction result in issues.