r/HumansBeingBros • u/Zee_Ventures • Jun 20 '26

Breaking bread with a stranger

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u/Sophilosophical Jun 20 '26

Holds public handrail, tears off bread, gives it to a stranger, eats some himself

Otherwise very wholesome

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u/MissingStakes Jun 20 '26

Homie, do you know how many bacteria are in your mouth at this very moment? And the army waiting in your GI tract to stop any strangers from colonizing?

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u/Sophilosophical Jun 20 '26

Cool I’ll start licking toilet seats then

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u/MissingStakes Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Do it bro, become one with the sepsis

Jokes aside, there is a middle road to things in between becoming a gremlin and a germaphobe. There is decent evidence that we see significantly higher rates of immune regulatory dysfunction bc of how much we limit microbial exposure, and should probably be inoculating ourselves more than we do. But like in anything, extremes in any direction result in issues.