"My point was concerning some of the crazy ideas coming from that area, as well as other areas, such as: the Government convincing itself that the populace was so utterly helpless and ignorant that they, the Government, needed to spend tax dollars to remind people to do something that is second nature."

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Stretch, your opinion of people's basic nature is much higher than mine. I work in a hospital which just conducted a secret survey (they got nurses to put on civilian clothes to do it) on how often the doctors washed their hands between patients.

Would you care to guess what the washing rate was?

[color:"red"]It was 7%. [/color]