that's true, but their times must have been less sanitary then ours, that's for sure. Germs may spread faster today but that doesn't make following the 5 second rule a necessarily bad decision. Anything likely to kill you will probably be brought to you by another person or animal.

Oh and howetzer, the way I figure, if I introduce enough harmless or mostly harmless germs into my system, then I'll be more likely to survive germ warfare than someone who babies their immune system. Ideally, a germ war will break out sometime soon, and when the population dwindles I'll be one of the few survivors, and you know what that means. Oh yeah. lots of repopulating, baby. Then the whole world would be more like me, too, which would be swell. And I figure that even if that plan doesn't work out then I'll still spend less time sick overall so hooray.