Back when I first started picking up litter, I don't remember seeing a face mask on the ground... EVER. And the only people I would ever see wearing these face masks were doctors, nurses, and dentists.

But in the year 2020, face masks suddenly went from being something that I would never find on the ground, to something that I literally couldn't go anywhere without finding on the ground.

I remember going to a grocery store one day right when people were first starting to panic about "covid", and I noticed that there were a few customers who were wearing these face masks and that there were also a few of these masks lying on the ground in the parking lot. Just a week or two later, it had already become "the new normal" to see masks all over the ground, and within a month, "face masks" had gone "super viral" and had become one of the most common types of litter being thrown on the ground GLOBALLY!

It all happened so quickly that it could just as quickly all be forgotten, so, if face masks ever make a comeback in the future, please don't forget that BILLIONS of them ended up as litter on the ground in the year 2020.

Some people seemed to be under the impression that throw-away face masks are "biodegradable" and that it wasn't a big deal to throw them on the ground or even a big deal to see them all over the ground, but the truth is that these masks were actually made of plastic and that in the year 2020, "face masks" were one of the most common forms of "single-use plastics" that were littering the planet.

If people want to call me an "anti-masker" for removing all of the discarded masks that I could find in my neighborhood, I will understand.



Another type of litter that went "super viral" in the year 2020 was ironically "anti-viral" plastic "Hand Sanitizer" bottles.

I personally think that it's kind of crazy to use "hand sanitizer". And before I explain why, I want to mention that most people (including those who use "hand sanitizer") probably already agree with me that it's crazy to use "hand sanitizer" to some extent...

For example:

Maybe when you heard the news that in 2020, the poison hotline was being flooded with calls from people who wanted to know if it would be safe for them to actually drink "hand sanitizer" you thought that it was a little crazy.

Or maybe whenever you would see people walk into a grocery store in 2020 and spray the handle of their shopping cart with sanitizer because they were worried about their health, but then they would take that same cart and fill it completely up with "junk food" that everyone knows is bad for our health you thought that the world was going madd.

But the real insanity with "anti-bacterial" products begins with the fact that they not only kill "harmful bacteria" but "beneficial bacteria" as well, and the reason it's called "beneficial bacteria" is because it protects us from "harmful bacteria". And instead of killing both the good and the bad just to try to get rid of the bad, my "gut" is telling me that it would make a lot more sense to increase and strengthen the good so that it can do its job of protecting us from the bad.

And not only are "anti-bacterial" products not able to tell the difference between "good bacteria" and "bad bacteria", but my "gut" is telling me that even we may not always be able to tell the difference, and that what we currently refer to as "harmful bacteria" may be a lot more "beneficial" than we realize.

If a child is raised in the country, and they grow up playing in the dirt, swimming in creeks, and having an outdoor dog as the family pet, they will end up getting exposed to MASSIVE amounts of germs during their childhood, and they will probably end up being a lot healthier as adults because of it.

When we get exposed to germs in our youth, our bodies "remember" which ones are harmful and will prepare themselves in case they ever return, and sometimes our our bodies can become so well prepared that we basically become "immune" to certain germs naturally.

If on the other hand, a parent won't ever let their kids go outside and get dirty, and will even spray their kids down with things like "Lysol" before going into public places, they may be limiting their children's germ exposure so much that it could actually cause their children to be far more vulnerable to germs when they get older, because if you live in a bubble for too long, you will eventually have to stay in that bubble due to not being strong enough to exist outside of it.

I am a human being and will not join (or be drafted into) a war against the microbiotic world. I have no intentions of putting any toxic products on or in my body that openly claims to kill 99.9% of bacteria when my body is made up of more bacteria than human cells.



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