Thank you StringJunky for getting back to me.
Thank you. This is what I was hoping to hear more about. So, when the bacteria and virus cells are broken open, they are no longer considered harmful?
I remember when the pandemic first started, I was seeing posters in bathrooms that said washing hands "killed" the virus (they weren't specifying antibacterial or regular soap). That made me question how the act of washing hands would kill the virus (because prior to that I believed that regular soap simply washed the germs away (without killing them), while antibacterial soap actually killed and washed them away).