Molly Lixey, a former emergency room nurse in Michigan recorded a brilliant, off-the-cuff Facebook video to show how cross-contamination works when at a grocery store and why, as she points out, “there’s no point in wearing gloves, if you’re not gonna wash your hands every time you touch something.”

[This piece was first published as a Facebook video. | The author of the tweet speaks in a personal capacity.]

(Cover: Screenshot of Facebook/Molly Lixey.)

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