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Many aspects of modern society thoroughly perplex me, specifically the excessive cleanliness exhibited primarily in urban centres. It's as though someone arbit

Many aspects of modern society thoroughly perplex me, specifically the excessive cleanliness exhibited primarily in urban centres. It's as though someone arbitrarily decided that humans have a limited quantity of immunity from disease, believing that avoiding infection would be beneficial. This asinine notion is best reserved for Intensive Care Units, but is on display in thousands of day cares and homes around the country serving only the purpose of weakening children's immune systems. By all rights and justification I have no clue how I'm alive. I've been exposed to monster cases of the flu and developed nothing. I've eaten tainted food from restaurants and when everyone I knew who ate the same was trying to figure out how to keep their head in and their ass on the toilet at the same time, I was perfectly fine. I can only assume that eating the cats kibble at 3 years old induced super powers to me.

iamwil 17y ago
Hookworms and other now-rare diseases, are because of better modern sanitation. Outhouses are apparently 6 feet deep because that's further than worms can crawl. http://mrhartansscienceclass.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/wnyc-radiolab-parasite-podcast/ http://mrhartansscienceclass.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/wnyc-r... At the same time, I'm with you that I think people are too germaphobic. I see people throw away perfectly good food just because of the expiration date. It's not like food is laced with arsenic, you can taste and smell if something went bad.
- Splines 17y ago
  > you can taste and smell if something went bad If something smells and tastes bad, it probably contains enough bacteria to hurt you. The inverse isn't always true.
HeyLaughingBoy 17y ago
Many aspects of modern society thoroughly perplex me, specifically the excessive cleanliness exhibited primarily in urban centres On another forum I read today that "it seems that rural areas are the only parts of the US that use common sense anymore." I really hope that's not true, but a lot of what I see around me appears to confirm that. Around here, kids run around and well, act like kids -- they get absolutely filthy in record time. My 9 year old walks half a mile home from the school bus stop without anyone panicking that he'll be kidnapped on the way. Subzero temperatures are not an excuse for him to get out of doing outdoor chores. He plays with the outside cats that are not declawed and live on a diet of mice, baby rabbits and the occasional unlucky bird. Who knows what parasites they carry. I've watched him drop his pants and pee in the middle of the road when he though no one was looking. And he perpetually amazes me with his talent for finding wet, sticky mud within seconds of walking outside. OMG!!! We're such awful parentz!!!! Yet he is the very picture of health. How can this possibly happen?

iamwil 17y ago

Hookworms and other now-rare diseases, are because of better modern sanitation. Outhouses are apparently 6 feet deep because that's further than worms can crawl. http://mrhartansscienceclass.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/wnyc-radiolab-parasite-podcast/ http://mrhartansscienceclass.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/wnyc-r... At the same time, I'm with you that I think people are too germaphobic. I see people throw away perfectly good food just because of the expiration date. It's not like food is laced with arsenic, you can taste and smell if something went bad.

Splines 17y ago
> you can taste and smell if something went bad If something smells and tastes bad, it probably contains enough bacteria to hurt you. The inverse isn't always true.

HeyLaughingBoy 17y ago

Many aspects of modern society thoroughly perplex me, specifically the excessive cleanliness exhibited primarily in urban centres On another forum I read today that "it seems that rural areas are the only parts of the US that use common sense anymore." I really hope that's not true, but a lot of what I see around me appears to confirm that. Around here, kids run around and well, act like kids -- they get absolutely filthy in record time. My 9 year old walks half a mile home from the school bus stop without anyone panicking that he'll be kidnapped on the way. Subzero temperatures are not an excuse for him to get out of doing outdoor chores. He plays with the outside cats that are not declawed and live on a diet of mice, baby rabbits and the occasional unlucky bird. Who knows what parasites they carry. I've watched him drop his pants and pee in the middle of the road when he though no one was looking. And he perpetually amazes me with his talent for finding wet, sticky mud within seconds of walking outside. OMG!!! We're such awful parentz!!!! Yet he is the very picture of health. How can this possibly happen?