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I agree with you.

As a human rights advocate, though, curious: where is the line, in everyone's mind? Can we use the law on people who don't wash their hands after they use the restroom? Etc

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Your response is to do nothing because of an extreme edge case?

A law that everyone has to wash their hands after using the restroom seems less severe, to me, than a law that nobody's allowed to gather in public.

I agree in principle. That said, a law about washing hands would be impossible to actually enforce without some kind of highly intrusive surveillance, which itself would be a severe downside. But a law that wasn’t actively enforced and only existed so posters could say “wash your hands - it’s the law!” would be… fine, IMO… though I doubt it would produce much if any actual increase in handwashing.

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