Quote Originally Posted by boz-monaut View Post
as a long term germaphobe and person with high risk of infection for the better part of the past two decades, the most important thing in avoiding getting ill from others is constant vigilance - assume everything you touch is contaminated and act accordingly

if you use your elbow to open a door, then your elbow is now contaminated, if you touch your elbow on your desk, then that's now contaminated
There's a Scrubs episode which demonstrates this that has been doing the rounds: