Hand Sanitizer

If you are trying to avoid the flu, simple math tells us that placing all your faith in hand sanitizer is a mistake. Randall Munroe at xkcd even did the math for you! Wash your hands, cover those sneezes, and get a flu shot. Link -Thanks, Ned Scioneaux!

Aw, that's nothing. It's been estimated that there are 1,000,000,000,000 (that's a trillion) bacteria on the average human body.

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Bill Nye explains it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_TO2FqJU24
Soap and water people, soap and water.

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Actually it probably says 99.99% of bacteria. The flu is a virus.

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