My fear of surfaces was emotional, not empirical. After all, it was pointed out last summer that the Can a bitch get a coffee around here shirt also I will do this risk of surface transmission had been exaggerated. Habits are formed quickly, though, when you’re living through a pandemic, and scrubbing down my groceries with Clorox wipes in March and April of 2020 instilled in me a bone-deep fear of touching anything that had had contact with the outside world for too long. (I still feel weird sitting on a used bar chair, without knowing exactly why.)
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