{"id":725,"date":"2010-02-03T21:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T01:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2010-02-03T21:50:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T01:50:18","slug":"yay-germs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Yay Germs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone seen the ads for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lysol.com\/products\/no-touch-hand-soap-system\/\">this<\/a> new device? It&#8217;s an automatic SOAP dispenser so you, &#8220;never touch a germy soap pump again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lysol, I have taken your anti-germ propaganda long enough. The product itself is not ridiculous, actually it&#8217;s kinda neat, it&#8217;s the advertising I find offensive. GERMS ARE NOT THE ENEMY.<\/p>\n<p>We need this stuff to live. That <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Probiotic\">probiotic<\/a> stuff in your yogurt they advertise all the time, that&#8217;s bacteria. It helps our bodies function properly.<\/p>\n<p>Our bodies were made to be exposed to germs. You keep your kid in a sterile environment, it will frell up their immune system. What doesn&#8217;t kill you, makes you stronger. <\/p>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;re working in a hospital or something, there&#8217;s no need to own antibacterial soap. Normal soap is good enough. If we all start using antibacterial stuff, we&#8217;ll just end up with super bacteria that will wipe us off the face of the Earth like in some bad sci-fi movie.<\/p>\n<p>As for Lysol&#8217;s new advertising campaign&#8230; Really, a germy soap dispenser? That&#8217;s your villain? The only reason the girl touches it is because she&#8217;s going to wash her hands. She could pick up all sorts of horrible, nasty germs, 20 seconds later, it won&#8217;t mater! That&#8217;s the whole point of washing your hands! <\/p>\n<p>What the hell!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone seen the ads for this new device? It&#8217;s an automatic SOAP dispenser so you, &#8220;never touch a germy soap pump again.&#8221; Lysol, I have taken your anti-germ propaganda long enough. The product itself is not ridiculous, actually it&#8217;s kinda neat, it&#8217;s the advertising I find offensive. GERMS ARE NOT THE ENEMY. We need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bQP0-bH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvercpu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}