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Warpy

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2. Learn to scratch your nose with the back of your wrist when you're out

Reply to Chemisse (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 04:53 PM

Feb 2015

and wash your hands as soon as you get back home. It's really the best way to avoid a lot of colds and other crud out there on shopping carts and subway straps.

Of course it doesn't help that most subway stations are urinals with tracks.

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Mapping the Microbes of the New York City Subway [View all] steve2470 Feb 2015 OP

What an amazing project! Chemisse Feb 2015 #1

Learn to scratch your nose with the back of your wrist when you're out Warpy Feb 2015 #2

Good idea - for a teacher too. Chemisse Feb 2015 #3