Fox Host Pete Hegseth’s 10-Year Handwash Boycott Baffles Harvard Alumni

Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth, on live TV, declared he hasn’t washed his hands in a decade, insisting 'germs are not a real thing' since you can't see them—a statement now trending with 'How dangerous is not washing hands?' and 'Is Purell overused?' Harvard and Princeton alumni recoil as Hegseth, caught eating leftover pizza, quips: 'I inoculate myself.'
Reactions to Hegseth’s anti-handwashing manifesto, including his claim that 'I take care of myself and all that, but I don't obsess,' now fuel queries like 'Is hand sanitizer necessary every day?' and 'What germs live on hands?' Meanwhile, the CDC quietly recommends soap while social media imagines a parallel universe where Harvard diplomas replace hand towels and pizza crusts become immunity boosters.
According to U.S. scientists, one gram of human feces—about the weight of a paperclip—can contain a trillion germs, making a decade-long handwash hiatus a microscopic parade of bacterial bravado.