During this quarantine/pandemic, there has been an increase in the purchase and usage of hand sanitizer. Due to the concerns of individuals (and lawmakers) about the spread of COVID germs, hand sanitizer has been pretty popular. In fact, when this whole pandemic started (with the quarantine) hand sanitizer was hard to find because people were hoarding it (along with toilet paper and hand soap). It really makes me wonder what people were doing prior to this pandemic? Was hand soap a knick knack or something you have on hand for show? Did people wash their hands before all of this hit the fan?
Hand sanitizer has finally made it back on the shelves (I think the market is over saturated). Stores have hand sanitizing stations where customers can get a glob and rub it into their hands. We even have some at the registers at work. Customers can sanitize when they walk into the store, sanitize again at the register and then at the door as they are leaving. I have witnessed customers enter the store, sanitize their hands three or four times before they enter the store. I'm not sure if the first two don't count or are just practice runs and the third time is the charm? This also happens at the register. I'm beginning to think it has become a nervous habit for some people. See how many times they can sanitize their hands.
Again, it really makes me wonder if these people were hand washers before the pandemic.
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