Sunday, January 31, 2010

GERMS ARE EVERYWHERE

Antibacterial soap is everywhere. it has invaded our schools, malls, cars, and purses. It can be found in a variety of scents, and it comes in small pocket size bottles, or maybe available in tall plastic dispensers located in easily accessible places for highly trafficked and public areas. Even more so ever since the threat of a swine flu epidemic the fast drying, no water required germ killer has become a clean freaks best friend.
Antibacterial soaps all claim to kill about 99% of germs and use commercials to show it. Graphs are a common demonstration of the germs before and after the use of their product. These portable size small containers of bacterial killing magic use the scare tactics of illnesses that are widely spreading. In today's economy, no one can afford to be home sick from work.
Clean, healthy, safe, germ free. These are all words describing antibacterial soap. The public buys into these words because they're scared of the flu plague affecting their families.
In our culture, we have become very germ conscious. Everything has the potential to be deathly and everything we come into contact with is dirty. Americans have become dependent on quick fixes like dry soap to keep us healthy fast.

1 comment:

  1. Some fine word choices here... "These portable size small containers of bacterial killing magic use the scare tactics of illnesses that are widely spreading." However, what is the connection to the preceding sentence about graphs?

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