To be fair, hotels are often infested with bedbugs despite “regulation.” I have yet to see many stories of people dying because an AirBnB is less than sanitary.

To be fair, hotels are often infested with bedbugs despite “regulation.” I have yet to see many stories of people dying because an AirBnB is less than sanitary. Besides, if you have bedbugs in your place, you get hammered on the reviews and your place gets delisted. AirBnB is aggressively strict about reviews. Too many 4 star reviews and you get “punished.” One of my listings in France got suspended for a week because it had an average review of 4.4 stars! Yet a French hotel that gets a slew of 2 star reviews on TripAdvisor or similar doesn’t get touched. AirBnB reviews are far more effective than regulation in weeding out “bad” places. I have stayed in plenty of shithole hotels across Europe despite “regulation.” Some hostels are downright poisonous. I have stayed in a few rat-hotels in the Bowery in New York and those places are still around. I have gotten sick more times at US restaurants than in years of eating street food in East Asia. AirBnB isn’t a health risk of any significance; I would invite data to the contrary. Besides, even if it were a health risk, nobody forces you to stay in one. In this era of nonsense warnings such as “don’t use a hairdryer in the shower” or coffee cups warning that coffee is hot, I have become quite sick of well-meaning people who seek to infantilize grown adults and protect them from various boogeymen that could be avoided with simple common sense: rats in the dining room? Don’t eat there. Dirty sheets or fire hazards? Don’t sleep there. A place selling for $10 per night when everywhere else is $100? Use your brain, do your homework, be a responsible grown up and stop expecting government to protect you from bedbugs.