Don't shake hands with this man

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about how some people feel that allowing their children to go without proper vaccinations is just dandy.

I'm starting to see where these questionable notions come from.  Where else but Fox "News"?

That cable channel, which some people use like an IV drip to fill their brains with nonsense, employs a man named Pete Hegseth to appear as part of a show called "Fox and Friends."

The other day, Hegseth said that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because "germs are not a real thing" and that not washing his hands helps him to "inoculate himself."

From what, he didn't say.

Hegseth said that germs -  infectious micro-organisms -  don't exist because they could not be seen with the naked eye.

It's difficult to imagine anything so ridiculous, but Harvard and Princeton both placed diplomas in his cruddy, germy hands at one time, you know.

All this came up after his co-hosts, Ed Henry and Jedediah Bila, saw him eating a the remains of a pizza that had been left out on their set from the day before. They started ragging on him about germs, but Hegseth defended himself and promised to tell his faithful viewers everything.

"My 2019 resolution is to say things on air that I say off air," he added.

I don't know if any of his degrees were in the field of immunology, but Hegseth dug in a bit deeper:

"We live in a society where people walk around with bottles of Purell in their pockets, and they sanitise 19,000 times a day as if that's going to save their life," he said.

It'a also a society in which people walk around with bottles of Old Granddad in their pockets, so there's that.

Hegseth continued: "I take care of myself and all that, but I don't obsess over everything all the time."

So this fellow on the news says that washing one's hands - basic human hygiene - counts as an obsession.

This comes to us from a network which lionizes a peculiar fellow who obsesses over building a magical wall to keep crime at bay, since there no Americans committing crimes.

Science fact: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says regular hand washing "is one of the best ways to remove germs, avoid getting sick, and prevent the spread of germs to others."

Bacteria that can be spread by unwashed hands include salmonella and E coli.

Even Donald Trump is a germaphobe.

In his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback, Mr Trump's ghostwriter wrote: "One of the curses of American society is the simple act of shaking hands, and the more successful and famous one becomes the worse this terrible custom seems to get.

"I happen to be a clean hands freak. I feel much better after I thoroughly wash my hands, which I do as much as possible."




Hegseth displays his filthy paws.