‘Clients want us to clean the air’: How the pandemic took hygiene to a whole new level The past year has turbo-charged our relationship with cleanliness, raising expectations and turning many into germophobes. Has it gone too far?
By Jess Cartner-Morley / The Guardian
Before Lynsey Crombie sits on a train, or outside a cafe, she takes out her antibacterial wipes and cleans the table, the arms of her seat anywhere she might touch or put her cellphone down.
“I’ve always done it,” said the bestselling author of The 15-Minute Clean and How To Clean Your House And Tidy Up Your Life. “Until last year I used to get some funny looks.”