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Stuff like this isn't a problem, until it is.
What was in that sewage? Anybody with typhoid? Diphtheria? Probably not because vaccination and treatment is still over herd immunity levels. Then, of course, there were the kids who used to get vaccinated for Polio naturally by exposure to untreated sewage, and us rich countries having terrible cases of polio survival in older people because we didn't bathe in toilet outflows.
Thing is, it's a numbers game. The first hundred people might not get sick, immediately, but if you form two lines, one bathing in the sewage pool and the other bathing in a treated sanitary pool, run 100 people a day through each one and track them for two weeks, you'll see the differences. That's why we have scientific publications, so we can read about these kinds of past experiments and don't have to repeat them.
Yes, but... have you considered that no one who listens to this dispshit cares about all that? That's the issue at hand. Everyone with common sense knows this is an idiotic publicity stunt.
Just like DeSantis & Co. getting their COVID jabs on camera, sitting around for 5 minutes and then saying "see: I'm fine, it's not harmful."
Bashing low flow shower heads, engine stop-start at red-lights, and everything they hear anyone bitching about - this is the party of "give the people what they want!"
What I want to know is: besides John McAfee, who wants to bathe in poo?
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