"Statistic" of Disgust

    I'm sick and tired of the  repetitious so called facts delivered as public health announcements, or pronouncements.  Every year as flu season approaches, the media subjects us to information that is supposed to help us keep healthy.  For example, how many times have we been alerted to the presence of fecal matter on grocery shopping carts?  Are we to believe that there is an ongoing survey and capture of poop on shopping carts, or are all these reports citing the findings of a single study?  And will those reporting please  share with us how the fecal matter likely got there?  Do these same fecal studies extend to restaurants, post offices, water fountains, medical offices, or libraries?  I suspect that the fecal matter study might be like the myth of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff.  The  film clip, from a Disney movie no less, of a group of  the hapless creatures fulfilling their death wish, has been cited so many times that the public  assumption has been that all  lemmings are drawn  to  a suicidal plunge off a cliff.  Later, biologists disputed lemming suicide, but the myth is firmly entrenched in the public eye, never mind the facts.    Bah, Humbug---crazy lemmings,  crappy shopping carts---let's just throw them all off a cliff.