How bad is cross contamination?

[teacherpat]

^What he said bbillcee
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FWIW, you can't peel the topping off the pizza crust either. I learned that the hard way.
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[teacherpat]

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It was at the very beginning, Pat. It did make me very aware of cross contamination, though!

I thought of another way to explain cc to people:

Your cat has cat hair naturally because it's a cat. Your couch is naturally cat-hair free. But after your cat naps on the couch, you couch has lots of cat hair. Then your formally cat-hair free clothes pick up cat hair when you sit on the couch. Then you hug a family member and transfer cat hair to them before getting into your car where you get cat hair on the car seat.

And on and on and on.

Your cat may have never been in your car, and your couch certainly has never been in your car, but through the magic of cross contamination, there is now cat hair in your car. It is also everywhere else you went, and everywhere else your family member went as well.

FWIW, I once supervised an employee who was forever going home sick. It was very annoying, but at the same time I could tell that he really wasn't feeling well at all. I finally figured out it was his severe cat allergy that was reacting to the cat hair on the clothes of another employee!
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