It's bad enough that people touch public objects with their bare *hands*, given how wildly varying sanitation standards are.

(Customer, casually: "Yeah, we're sick, that's why we went for fast food instead of cooking ourselves."

Me (a cashier, watching her press buttons on the credit-card reader that everyone else is going to have to press), internally: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA")

(Meanwhile, I have encountered at least one person on rat-Tumblr (don't remember who) who honestly believes that others will *both* notice *and* care if you shower every two days instead of every one, and feels pressured to destroy their skin with excessive showering. I wonder where *they* live, and if people there still touch credit-card readers while sick.)


flaksesomlys makes some good points for why it probably shouldn't be *technically* illegal, but I would certainly not push for increased *acceptance*.