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I can’t be the only one who recoils in horror at the thought of TOUCHING THE SCREEN! It’s like going to the toilet and not washing your hands after. I’m sure people do it, but..ew.
Now think of all those people ordering on touch screens in MacDonalds and then eating their food with their hands. Yuk! :-&
Can’t be any worse than the contents of the food they’re ordering. I mean, nobody goes to McDonalds expecting to leave healthier than when they arrived.
You don't magically become healthier from eating something, that's just not how it works.
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I didn't think of it before but now I won't be able to avoid thinking about it. I got to carry one of those rubber styluses whenever I go to fast food places now. :/
Unless there is some immunity problem in your body, this will only make you sicker over time. Your body handles random bacteria just fine. It doesn’t handle being prevented from experiencing any dangerous interactions for 5 years straight, then trying to fight off an infection with a severely undertuned immune system.

Touch things with your hands. Your body literally needs it to be healthy. Avoiding it ONLY makes you sicker in the end.

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well i have a couple of laptops at work that are dedicated to programming/test software.

A touch screen would be actually better than a laptop, but android tablet won't cut it (we make some of the test hardware so are in control of the drivers, but for most of it we don't)

You can clean it now and then, you know ;-)
how is it different for your phone?