The article confirmed my knowledge. Around here if the eggs are washed and sanitized then you refrigerate them out of caution.

Last year we got a flock of chickens. They are happy, free-range, and "expensive". But we have loads of eggs and constantly give them away. We've seen everyone immediately wash and refrigerate them, regardless. It's just what people are used to.

We give away the "pretty" eggs. Mine, I pick off the hay and scrub off dried poop before cracking. Even so there really is no comparison between the bland, bleach-white eggs at the supermarket and organic ones grown from happy chickens with a balanced diet.