@cathedralwhatev people are focusing too much on pathogen avoidance and not enough on mortality salience
@cathedralwhatev like sex is a creatureliness reminder http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232450313_I_am_not_an_animal_Mortality_salience_disgust_and_the_denial_of_human_creatureliness/file/e0b4952127780282fe.pdf … / & esp. http://www.benthamscience.com/open/topsyj/articles/V003/1TOPSYJ.pdf … - sniffling not so much