When the elevator doors in our local hospital close they display a lecture on the inside: wash your hands! When you use the restroom in our local hardware store you are confronted by a sign on the wall: employees must wash their hands! Why are such admonishments still needed in a developed, civilized nation? Have we not all heard or read that even Pontius Pilate, some 2000 years ago, already washed his hands with water? Should we not emulate him?
Of course, he failed to use soap. But then all this happened before Proctor and Gamble.