Drove a public transportation city bus for 6 years, and only got the
flu once. Never got colds, or any of the other things the coughing
hacking disease ridden homeless tried to infect me with through their
hands, spittle, or money. I attribute that to the immunities developed
not only from the constant exposure, but to my mother's philosophy
that a kid too clean was gonna be a sick kid. Questions to her like
"what do ants taste like?" were met with "eat a few and tell
me" (bitter). Same with dirt, dirty things, etc.. Not that we were
dirt-bag kids, just not concerned with germs.
Swine flu? Kiss a pig! Wash your hands? Before dinner, but not lunch.
Dinner we used linen, lunch was paper napkins. Linen had to last a week.
On Apr 28, 2009, at 15:08 , Nick Wright wrote:
My problem with those little bottles of hand sanitizer is that it only
kills 99.9% of germs.
The manufacturers tout this as a feature (they proclaim it right on
the bottles), but I see it as a liability.
Because that 0.1% of germs that survive to reproduce will logically be
the strongest most horrible versions of the germ.
It's natural selection speeded up many times. We destroy the weakest
strains of the germ, and leave the strongest to continue spreading.
And meanwhile our bodies never develop any kind of natural immunity.
If it doesn’t excite you,
This thing that you see,
Why in the world,
Would it excite me?
—Jay Maisel
Joseph McAllister
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