Plagues of the 21st Century?

[Balagor]

@Trandoshan

Of cause I can only support washing your hands, when ever needed. We are good at it where I come from, and we teach our children well in this lesson.

But when I look around how things work, the girl at the bakery is wearing rubber gloves, at the gas station they wear rubber gloves, at the cafeterias they wear rubber gloves, all when they touch the food, in order not to infest it.

Now what I am getting at, is we can also be hysterical, and loose our natural resistance to certain bacterias. Some people, I call them "plastic wrappers" are so afraid to touch things nowadays, at least in DK, so they live their lives protected by plastic.

It is also those very same people that get a "jelly belly" when they vistit other countries. Perhaps because they are not used to bacterial flora anymore, perhaps, they finally also killed off the good jerms on their hends/body.

[Trandoshan]

@Trandoshan

Of cause I can only support washing your hands, when ever needed. We are good at it where I come from, and we teach our children well in this lesson.

But when I look around how things work, the girl at the bakery is wearing rubber gloves, at the gas station they wear rubber gloves, at the cafeterias they wear rubber gloves, all when they touch the food, in order not to infest it.

Now what I am getting at, is we can also be hysterical, and loose our natural resistance to certain bacterias. Some people, I call them "plastic wrappers" are so afraid to touch things nowadays, at least in DK, so they live their lives protected by plastic.

It is also those very same people that get a "jelly belly" when they vistit other countries. Perhaps because they are not used to bacterial flora anymore, perhaps, they finally also killed off the good germs on their hends/body.

 

Agreed. Better to do something than nothing. Hand Washing is something and still reduces the chance of contact vector transmission. Good.

 

Denmark is like that you say? I never thought as much. Weakening immune systems are quite the problem anymore. It seems the more human-kind gets cleaner, the more we become vulnerable to conditions.

 

http://www.education.com/reference/article...ene_Hypothesis/

 

The Hygiene Hypothesis puts this to work. About two hundred years ago, allergies were non-existent. When someone had an allergy back then, it was a serious condition. Nowadays, if someone touches a speck of dust, they go off like a wildfire. Same does apply with bacterial variations in other countries. It seems like whenever someone gets a deadly disease, the first questions most doctors ask is "Been traveling lately?".

 

My god, I just realized. Human kind is stacking up for another pandemic, arent we...

[evilneko]

Sure I did:

even when assuming physical contact is required for transmission!

 

:)

 

I listed handwashing as the biggest mitigating factor based on my own experience in the real world, which has shown me that covering the mouth when coughing or sneezing is much, much more common than hand washing.

[Trandoshan]

Sure I did:

even when assuming physical contact is required for transmission!

 

:)

 

I listed handwashing as the biggest mitigating factor based on my own experience in the real world, which has shown me that covering the mouth when coughing or sneezing is much, much more common than hand washing.

 

:)

 

*Sigh*

 

Well, I can't really find a counter-argument out of this anymore. So I might as well tell you that I had already believed you when you said that Hand-Washing (Mechanical Vector of Transmission) was the most decisive factor in disease spread and prevention.

 

I recently went to a restaurant between the posting of this, and my last post. My server was the most unclean person I had ever seen.

 

Right in front of me, an obviously disease employee sneezed on his hands. Being the paranoid fool I am, I watched him as he continued to serve. I actually followed him into the restroom, and saw a sign that explicitly said that "All employees must wash hands before returning to work". Verily enough, he left his stall (After doing a number 2) and did not even stop to look at the sink. I will probably never particular that restaurant again.

 

I study medicine, and have done the labs that show the spread of the all ubiquitous(Omnipresent) bacterium. Every day I study, I find the chance of a Pandemic more positively possible.

 

I can't really disagree with you, since what you say is correct in terms of scientific research. Many articles support your statements.

[Maxwell the Fool]

I am not a believer in these super-plagues. I do my research and decide for myself whether or not to get vaccinated (bird/swine flu). For me, having an immensely weakened immune system, this is a challenging decision, because I often experience symptoms that I must be hospitalized for from vaccines containing live/weakened viruses.

 

No far as that specific ailment, I reserve my opinion, for now. If you noticed, the larger number of cases are found in the more heavily populated areas, as is to be expected with both diseases AND elaborate hoaxes. I would, however, not deny these people the best medical care available, as I know what it's like to be accused of having diseases like Munchhausen's (a severe need for attention). I've struggled for my entire life (and still am struggling) to receive a diagnosis beyond "here's this pill, if it doesn't help, come back in six months."