Is Anyone Else Not Showering?

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Jim spent years writing a book on hygiene beliefs and the new science of the skin microbiome. In it, he suggests that some people overuse cleansers and soaps, and may benefit from doing less. But now, there’s a pandemic, and he also really wants to remind people to wash their hands. Jim tries to explain the nuances of good cleaning and bad cleaning—and why he does not shower in the traditional sense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi Catherine.
0:05.0	Hey.
0:06.6	Good weekend?
0:07.6	Yeah it's nice weather.
0:09.0	I have uh I have something to tell you.
0:11.7	What? Can you. What?
0:13.0	Can you hear this?
0:14.0	It sounds like hands rubbing together,
0:21.0	some sort of ASMR thing.
0:23.0	It's me using my purel.
0:26.0	Wait, from Steve Perel?
0:28.0	My purel has been liberated from its bladder.
0:32.8	Oh, gosh.
0:35.8	Thanks to everybody who wrote me and told me how to do it.
0:39.3	Glenn, who is a retired chemist, wrote in and told me how to do this.
0:45.0	He began his email with, all caps,
0:48.0	Do not cut the plastic bag!
0:51.0	And five exclamation points, which I appreciate it because that was my previous plan.
0:58.1	I cut the rubber tube and I clipped it with like a paper clip thing and I put it into a smaller travel size
1:07.1	bottle and now I have it. I don't think it's a foaming kind. Anyway I've been carrying it everywhere
1:12.2	and it's really exciting and thank you.
1:15.0	Oh, wow. He might have saved your life.
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