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I don't think people realise the importance of hand washing. It could make a huge difference, if not to you, to someone else. I'm not saying you should be obssessive about it, but you should wash your hands if you go to the toilet or do anything that is clearly making your hands dirty (not saying that if you touch anything you should wash your hands, that would be silly).
But look at surgeons. In our faraway past (I'm talking centuries), dirty hands while performing surgery probably caused the deaths of many people, among other things. And it's such a simple thing to do.
On a personal note, I have family members who have passed away in hospital from catching pneumonia within the hospital, after being checked in with another, different problem. In the UK, in hospitals, facilities are provided for visitors to wash their hands before visiting their relatives and loved ones and this actively prevents many of these types of cases from occurring. In Portugal, where I live, this is not usually provided except for in the intensive care ward. So the rate of people checking into hospital with a serious ailment and then dying of pneumonia is pretty high - no kidding.
Maybe this will make you think twice about the importance of hand washing.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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