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Thank you for your posts in this thread. Your work correcting these people is not unnoticed. They've got 300-year-old raw sewage in their basement, see their neighbour's house has a black mold problem, and then when they find specks of mold in their kitchen, they scream that the neighbours have brought the plague. If they fail to clean their kitchen for one week, the rot will seep in to a degree that their neighbour's house could never achieve, and it is only by the cleaning habits of a small minority of their household that the house remains livable, but the person screaming is too preoccupied with the spectacle next door to actually clean house. What, do they think that the person next door isn't trying to clean? Next door is a much bigger house, and the sewage has started leaking through the now-septic foundations from the burst pipe in the screamer's basement.
Basically just using a different analogy to say that you are spot on. Carry on.
I'll be honest, I had to reread it a couple times, but I think I understand the analogy now. Thanks for your compliment as well.