No, the bacterium is also flattened (from the point of view of a distant observer), along with its local environment, including my nose, and thus it does not notice that my nose is flattened — there's no local experiment it can perform to determine that my nose is in fact flat, any more than it could in space away from the black hole.
It's the exact same in special relativity. If you and I were flying close to light speed relative to each other, from the perspective of each of us the other would be flattened, yet we wouldn't think of ourselves as flattened.
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