Umm. Here's how I handle it. Anti-Bacterials kill 99.99% of the germs. The act of rubbing your hands together tears apart nearly as many percentage wise. Within 10 minutes of de-germing yourself, the germs that were left have repopulated your skin/phone/whatever. Germs/bacteria are everywhere, and here's the scary part, there are billions upon billions on your hands and phone and money and everything else. So many that the 0.01% that are left are still way in the millions. It gets worse, the ones that were left are the only ones to survive your trying to eradicate them, the strongest are the ones to survive, and those breed to make more, very very quickly. In your trying to be germ free you're helping to create superstrains of germs. It's not all bad news. Most of the germs that are on you/in you/on everything are harmless to humans. Not all germs are bad. Not all are good, but more good than bad, or rather, more not bad than bad. It sucks, but that's the way it is. I'm sorry but to live germ free you'd need to go to extreme lengths costing in the millions and there would still be germs, you *NEED* some of the better ones just to survive yourself, and there is no picking and choosing what you kill or don't kill.