Naughty boy,cling film is an environmental catastrophe.
"Plastic wrap saves your sandwich but pollutes the planet. Is there a better solution?" [api.nationalgeographic.com]

@Lorajay it would be a dirty trick waxed paper could not pull off
I love that you are concerned for the planet simple things like that mean so much

Same here

& flushing spews all sorts of things in the air. Close the damn lid!

Flushing spreads the airborne particles even with the lid down but not as much.

@phxbillcee actually, i have read this, and performed my own test by draping the opening with x-lightweight toilet paper, then flushing. The paper was almost instantly drawn Down into the toilet,and & the paper, observed closely by me, remained completely dry until it touched the flushing water, no predicted droplets got to it, at least on my model toilet. (ADA 18" high seat, oblong bowl, about 16 years old)
My toilet is also quite far from my toothbrush & basin etc anyway, diagonally across the fairly large room.

@phxbillcee exactly

@AnneWimsey not all bacteria and germs have wet footprints.

I have never seen a toilet lid that fits completely flush. I'm hoping the circular motion that creates a downdraft makes up for that.BTW I never close the lid until I read the article about the germs floating everywhere. Like some of you my toilet is not near my toothbrush but it is near my bath towel so I started shutting the lid. Shutting the lid is not that hard and I don't know why anyone would not want to promote it.

@Lorajay I am curious though, if isolation from common germs would result in a long term ineffective response to exposures of those germs? Simply due to not having to deal with common germs could causes issues.

@Ello that's what my Daddy would tell me when I complained about him drinking out of the water jug in the fridge. He died at 52 from alcoholism. In other words he had a chronic disease that precluded testing his hypotheses.

It is been said that antibacterial soap has made us both more susceptible and created bacterial mutations. I do not buy antibacterial soap. I do try to follow recommended sanitary practices.