Unnecessary

I really don't like fear mongering as a means to sell unnecessary crap. For example, the Lysol Healthy Touch No Touch Hand Soap System. It is being marketed as a way to protect people from transferring pre-existing germs that are on your common household soap dispenser when one touches it to dispense soap into one's hands as they get ready to wash them. It senses motion so you don't have to touch the soap dispenser. Ok...great! A new way to keep us from getting other people's germs on our hands. But, correct me if I am wrong here. How many times do you retouch the soap dispenser pump in your house immediately after you wash your hands with the soap you just dispensed into your hands from said soap dispenser? And, say you did get some germs on your hands from the soap dispenser, ummmm...maybe I am a little bit stupid here and I don't understand the concept of the purpose of washing your hands and the way that soap and water works when put together but, aren't you then immediately washing said newly acquired germs from the soap pump off of your hands as you wash them right then and there? Yeah...I'm pretty sure I am just an idiot. Right? I mean, the people at Lysol are probably right in thinking that people tend to touch the soap pump, transfer germs onto their hands, wash their hands and either the new germs they just got off that soap pump are resistant to that fresh wash of their hands, or people just then retouch the soap pump and walk around with filth on their hands until the next time they wash them. I've got to be wrong. I'm not a scientist. Not a doctor. So, of course I am wrong and, immediately after I wash the germs from my hands that I have collected both from the dirty soap pump and whatever my hands may get into in between washes has magically not been washed off and is remaining on my hands only to be added to the next time I touch my filthy soap pump. Gosh...I'm disgusting.