What you don’t realize is that half the time, your misery could have been prevented with a simple remedy prescribed by Mom, washing hands as she instructed. A recent expose revealed just how rampant the germ population is. When you go shopping at the grocery store, thousands of hands have touched that grocery basket, leaving a plethora of germs in their wake. You come along to do your shopping, gaining access to a few billion germs that cause disease, because the previous user didn’t believe in washing hands. So rampant is the problem, that major supermarkets are now investing in shopping cart washers to disinfect the carts after each use. If you’re a kid going to day care or school, you’ve got to understand that germs are everywhere.