Let me tell you a little secret: I'm terrified of germs. I will refuse to hold hands if your hands are dirty. I don't sip from other people's straws. I don't like public pools. I take many showers. I wash my hands very often.
Is that really that bad?
*Currently listening to Digital Love, Daft Punk*
Is that really that bad?
*Currently listening to Digital Love, Daft Punk*
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Siete piccola e magnifica.
ReplyDeleteI hope your leg is feeling better little dear.
Tanti grazie bello. - Who cares about pain in a leg and blood and near-death when there's so much beauty everywhere?
ReplyDeleteI hear stories from the CDC every now and then. One of them happened to relate to these two biologists that wanted to try to contain this hemorrhagic fever they'd found. Very into sealing the container lids, sterile conditions. Very careful about things.
ReplyDeleteOk. So they tried to bring back these two green monkeys. Captured them in Uganda? So they carefully isolated them and sent them to Europe.
Soon as they arrive, they're transferred using like. Tongs and stuff. Into these hermetically sealed labs.
Then the researchers - five days later - that handled these super-sealed super sterile things turned black and died.
The name of the town where the research facility was located was called Marburg.
And thats how we got the name Ebola/Marburg.
Your best bet against the superbugs is not to try to keep yourself clean, because you'll never be clean - the virus finds a way its so tiny the pores of a filter mask look like Albert Hall.
ReplyDeleteInstead, what you want are antibodies. You want to actually expose yourself to anything you know won't kill you.
Kind of a paradox isn't it? You can be clean, but if you want to live - you have to get dirty.
And believe you me. The superbugs are a' comin.
Multiple resistant staphylococcus aureas the first but not the last.
I treat my kids very minimally, encourage them to go out and get dirty and have fun - and I watch antibiotic expiration dates like a hawk.
Basically I just throw out antibiotics after any prescription and don't even store them at this point.