Lysol, Condoms, and Unexpected Consequences #1: Today's Wall Street Journal reports that Lysol owner Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC expects the surge in sales. The company believes the general trend to more cleanliness is likely to outlast the corona virus outbreak. #2: Reckitt's Durex brand, which mainly sells condoms, reported a modest decrease in sales. Possible consequences Of course, cleanliness is a good thing, like salt. Take a salt deprived person, add a dash to his diet, and his health improves. Next day adds two dashes, better still. You can see where this is going -- eventually there will be a day when his health starts declining with more salt and if you keep going, he'll die. Excessive cleanliness is not quite that drastic, but it can happen. Evidence is growing(1) that without reasonable exposure to germs, children are more likely to develop allergies and even auto-immune diseases. Will this generation of children, the "Lysol...