How Bad Are the Germs in Public Restrooms, Really?

What do people who are nomads do? How 'unhealthy' are they? However is it possible for one of those to live to old age?

Everyday risks are overblown unnecessarily. What we need today is more of what I was told about as a child: "Good, clean, dirt". How do you build up immunity to everyday germs without some form of exposure?

Washing under running water is sufficient for practically all purposes with unbroken skin. As today's nomads and all the generations of non-modern people have done for thousands of years.

TL:DR; toilet seats and bathrooms are perfectly safe. Wash your hands.

I must be a very dirty person, because this article is very pedantic, and I would never consider any of these suggestions. I don't even wash my hands half the time, just run them under water so the other people in the house think I am civil and wash my hands after flushing the toilet.

Squat if you have the muscles, but be sure to aim because you might increase the risk to the next person?

This is just so absurd to me to be lectured by Health Officials and the NYT with then providing solutions to problems that dont exist.

Like seriously, the ONLY pathogen they could identify that COULD be picked up by the butt skin is MRSA. It's low risk, there are no stats or proof that MRSA is transmitted through public washroom seats.

And that risk averseness is parlayed into a virtue signalling lecture about squatting to avoid the non-risky public toilet seat, BUT OF COURSE be sure to (not shit everywhere) protect your fellow citizen from the non-risk of sitting on a dirty toilet seat.

I'm sick of the nanny state and all its parts.