Touching Things

I was off work for three days with some sort of illness.  Longer if you consider I had a sore throat starting Friday afternoon when I was working from home and really only came back to the office today.  Plenty of working from home during that time, even extra, but at least Monday I could barely see the computer at some points my sinuses, eyes, and lungs were leaking so much.

Today that gave me some pause while I was thinking about being contagious.  I'm fairly certain I'm fine given usual contagion rules, and it's not a baddy, because I haven't gone anywhere.  But I thought about what I might touch that could transmit germs.  My first meeting of the morning was standup.  I touched:

• the outside door handle to the room.
• the inside door handle to the room
• the light switch
• the cord to the computer from the t.v.
• the dongle to the computer from the t.v.
• the tv remote
• the phone and almost every single number on the keypad
• my pen
• a notepad
• my computer
• my mouse
• a white board marker
• a white board rag
• a bottle of white board cleaner
• the hand sanitizer

No wonder the world is generally doomed when there's a risk of pandemic.