Why Hand Sanitisers Do More Harm Than Good
We re publishing today a new piece by regular contributor and medical historian Dr Irina Metzler questioning the public health wisdom of all this obsessive germ blitzing. Here s a taster.
Hand sanitisers, or hand satanisers as I prefer to dyslexise, are as ubiquitous a part of the pandemic as the masks. Unlike the masks, which will cause mainly individual problems (if you wear a mask, you re restricting your own breathing, not someone else s), hand sanitiser use at the level we ve been seeing for the past 10 months is going to become one helluva headache in the none too distant future. That s because apart from destroying your own, personal microbiome we ve got a bigger picture to consider.