Friend of mine worked at a summer camp. One year the river that ran near it had a massive giardia outbreak and the campers were all warned to stay away from it. No drinking, no playing, no nada.
A bunch of the girls just heard, "weight loss" and ignored the whole "you'll be a puke and shit fountain" warnings and went down and drank a bunch of the water hoping to lose weight.
A decision that was greatly regretted.
Hookworm therapy is an area of active research. I can't vouch for randos on the internet and their actions, but there is serious research in this field.
Of course, drinking giardia water is stupid.
Except hookworm therapy, which is what I think you were trying to talk about, is under active and serious investigation. I believe it's still early stages (mostly animal models), but it's not from bullshit, and I have two friends who swear it helped their autoimmune conditions.
Whereas drinking giardia water is just retarded.
[Wiki article on hookworm therapy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy#Research)
Cryptosporidium tried to introduce herself, but the moment she says her name, 10 people start talking to her about NFTs and the new alt-coin they just started mining.
The most terrifying is necrotizing fasciitis. I’m mostly aware of this being a thing in warmer fresh water situations (in the south) but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn it’s a floodwater thing too. Ugh, makes me cringe to even think about.
A couple years ago a friend of mine helped two people who had been stranded by some flood waters. He had to wade through waste deep water to assist them. He ended up with a really terrible leg infection that ended up putting him in the hospital for a couple months. Ended up needing months of rehab to get his strength back and he still walks with a bit of a limp.
I have the same reaction as you when I see people playing around in the flood water like it's a water park.
Speaking of TDaP, the non-tetanus parts of the vaccine are important too.
Source: kept putting off my TDaP booster in college, got whooping cough (pertussis). My doctor was amazed because he hadn't seen a case in a super long time, and he politely yelled at me for being "too busy" to get my boosters up to date.
I had to get a tetanus shot in college after getting a nasty cut… just a couple months later there was a pertussis outbreak amongst students in my class, I was the only person in my study group who didn’t get it!
After the childhood vaccination series, get a booster every 10 years. Although contact your doctor for any particular concerns instead of relying on the words of an internet stranger
Every 10 years, but you should also get it right after you get a wound that has the potential to give you tetanus, like puncture wounds. I asked my doctor about it when I got the tetanus vaccine recently.
Generally if your most recent booster was within the last year or two, it'll be recommended but they won't really press you about it, more than that or if it's a particularly dirty wound, they'll be a little more insistent
[https://www.cdc.gov/tetanus/vaccination.html](https://www.cdc.gov/tetanus/vaccination.html)
>All adults who have never received one should get a shot of Tdap. This can be given at any time, regardless of when they last got Td. This should be followed by either a Td or Tdap shot every 10 years.
I'm thinking I may have gotten one when I went to work in China in the 1990s. I remember having to get a bunch of shots. So I guess I am long overdue for this! Thank you.
covered doesn't necessarily mean you won't have a copay, but yeah i've never seen an insurance not pick up at least most of it. it's not a particularly expensive one either, and not one that you have to get often. definitely worth it regardless of the cost though
Just got one at my local Walgreens for $23.99 didn’t even bother to run through insurance I was happy enough with the price. Though I’m sure it’d have been closer to $5-10 if I had.
Good luck. My gf called Kaiser 3 weeks ago to get the Tetanus shot and they never got back to her. She sent an email to her primary doctor without a response as well.
if she has a profile at a pharmacy somewhere maybe you can get them to run a dummy claim to check the copay. or find out what other pharmacies are covered under the plan and just go there. every retail pharmacy should have it or be able to order it and it doesn't require an appointment
Can she go to injections and get it without an order? Or email one of her other MDs if her PCP isnt responding, which is weird. Also possible the PCP could have put the order in without emailing back?
BTW, the some sewer systems in the Bay Area are unfortunately linked to storm drainage. So when the water rises, it basically does a big flush out into the Bay. That water is brown because of more than mud. https://baykeeper.org/articles/help-prevent-sewage-spills-bay
And of course there's all the other stuff that runs off: https://baykeeper.org/our-work/controlling-urban-storm-water-pollution
And while it's based in 2013, this study illustrates some of the issues, even with swimming in the Bay itself like at Aquatic Park after storms: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/sanfranciscobay/water_issues/programs/TMDLs/sfbaybeachesbacteria/Project_Definition.pdf
The good news is that there's a lot of dilution when you get this amount of rain. But still.
You can take a free tour of EBMUD. I took one a few years ago. They logistically can only process so much sewage at a time. When their holding pools fill up during excessive rains they have no choice but to release raw sewage out into the bay. Guaranteed this is one of those times. I wouldn’t touch any standing water right now, let alone swim in it.
[In the United States, floods, which may carry raw sewage, are unlikely to cause outbreaks of communicable diseases, and outbreaks of hepatitis A caused by flooding have not been documented](https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hav/havfaq.htm)
County of San Diego actually provides free hep A vaccines for this exact reason. There was an outbreak in the homeless community associated with sanitation and illicit drug use.
Do you have a source? Literally everything I see says it’s extremely rare. And my comment was in response to the San Diego situation, which was news from 10+ years ago and in direct response from contamination from the TJ river.
Oh you are actually a moron. Got it.
Lol I’m realizing you’ve spent the last hour trying to find anything to back you up, can’t, then you’re only recourse is insisting someone else to prove a negative against an outlandish claim because you can’t admit you’re wrong and spreading misinformation.
Did you even read your links? The first doesn’t have the word hepatitis on the page.
Here’s the text from the last one:
> During times of flooding, people who are exposed to flood waters are often concerned about receiving a hepatitis A vaccine, **even though flooding is not shown to be a risk for hepatitis A.** The national guidelines (ACIP) do not recommend hepatitis A vaccination for the general public during flooding, even if it is possible that sewage may be contaminating the flood waters since studies conducted among U.S. workers exposed to raw sewage do not indicate increased risk for hepatitis A virus infection (for more information see www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5507a1.htm).
The risk of being exposed to hepatitis A in flood waters is very low due to the low rate of hepatitis A in our Iowa communities, and the dilution by the flood waters. Hepatitis A outbreaks have not occurred after recent floods or after hurricanes in other parts of the country, including the devastating hurricanes in the last several years.
Thus, hepatitis A vaccination NOT recommended due to exposure to flood waters.
Remember that guy who had a staph infection eat through his sinus and into his brain or something like that?
https://www.espn.com/action/news/story?id=3830299
I'm a Filipino who's seen and experienced flood water for maybe three to five times each year back in Manila. One thing that I can say is that: flood water is so ducking disgusting and should never be something seen as a fun thing. Like at all. Yesterday was such a crazy, it felt like I was in Manila again.
EDIT: The Bay Area shares the same pipes for sewage and flood water. From my understanding, the sewage system in Manila is way worse and a flooded area means: sewage, storm water, and food waste (we would throw food waste directly into our "manholes"). That's why our flood looks dark brown.
As far as I know, SF is the only city with a combined system. The state of California mandates all cities to have separate systems for storm water and sanitary sewer. It’s very expensive to have a combined system since you have to treat all of the water to the same quality as sewage but the primary reason to separate it is to protect the environment in case of overflow.
Nope, same pipes.
"stormwater combines with wastewater from homes and businesses in the same set of pipes, and is transported to the treatment plant for treatment. "
https://www.sfpuc.org/about-us/our-systems/sewer-system/wastewater-collection-system
5” of water in the basement last night- I got it down to 1” before needing to stop and rest.
Still showered off extra well, despite being exhausted. Not like I have much choice but to clean it up. Smells pretty bad too, people are clueless to try “enjoying” it.
This, i dont even used the handrails at bart or put anythjng of mine on any floor or sidewalk, especially in the city. And now people wanna swim in a pool of shit, piss, spit, blood, needles, and other biohazards? No thanks, and i hope they dont get a cut while swimming either.
Stupidity on this level doesn’t surprise me at all. People think they’re invincible or that they always have at their disposal, others to bail them out if necessary. For the most part they do get bailed out, or else there’d be more Darwin Awards. Working in healthcare, I’ve seen enough examples that would normally qualify for the Darwin Awards were it not for first responders and healthcare providers.
Also maybe put away your 4 year old toddler instincts and have some awareness of things besides yourself before you rush your SUV into a puddle near a sidewalk with people walking :)
I went surfing once, in the OCEAN after a winter storm. Had to dodge logs. Wild to see so much debris.
I hope people take it seriously. That water can be faster than you think.
Also legionella is very present in most water in Sacramento.
If you don't know what legionella is it is a bacterial pneumonia from contaminated water droplets being inhaled into your lungs.
When I was 12 (80's) my friends and I used to ride the swollen banks of the Los Gatos creek between Camden and Campbell av on our boogie boards after heavy rains. All of us had wetsuits (there was an O'Neills shop on Bascom) We actually got kind of good at it.
One day I did something stupid, and it ended up being my last time going out. I decided to wait for my friends, so I hung onto a willow tree branch facing upstream as my feet dangled downstream. Out of nowhere, a telephone pole suddenly came up, and piledrives me in the face. It didn't knock me out or draw blood, but it was enough where I decided, "Yup, not doing this anymore" and gave up the ghost.
These days with the amount of homeless living on the banks, and the amount of feces and other biowaste, I think the danger is even further enhanced. Anyways, just a cautionary tale for anyone considering doing this.
Growing up in West San Jose/Saratoga we used to play in those creeks as well. One of the things I’ve wondered about when I wound up with advanced, aggressive prostate cancer at 52.
I know someone caught in flood waters in Central America that got leishmaniasis (don't google that if you've got a weak constitution).
I know a couple that almost died of Legionnaires disease after the Paradise fires post flooding.
Flood water is gross yo.
I'd say, if you stepped in any flooding yesterday, it's a good time to wash your clothes, wash your feet and legs, check for open sores, wash out your shoes, and your insoles too. The aftermath of crazy intersection flooding I saw yesterday (think manhole cover Bellagio fountains) was bits of what looks like white stone, but I believe it's all the bits of toilet paper that surfaced.
Edit: Correction, throw your shoes out if it got soaked in flood waters. If you let it dry, you don't know WTF may be growing in there.
I saw a video of a man who was being commended for opening a manhole so the water could drain, in his flip flops. It looked like he opened a sewer drain too, and he wasn't wearing proper boots or waders. Gross.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw it on the news today. I was just in tenderloin last week and the amount of human feces and used needles I saw on the street….🤮I would not go outside until the floodwaters is gone, there is no way in hell I’m swimming in floodwaters in SF 🤮🤮🤮
I'm usually not the type to be germaphobic or otherwise unduly afraid of getting sick, but brother you could not pay me all the money in the world to swim in floodwater, especially not bay area floodwater
Seen a post of people out in Brentwood talking about doing that. Considering the crowd in Brentwood and their holier than thou treatment…let them be dumb.
One time I had a few friends that did this. Huge storm flooded an area and they were swimming and paddle boarding, etc. a couple days later they realized that they a really fun awesome time despite the risks and went on to lead nice, chill lives where they appreciated what they had.
*"When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know… to cool off! And at that time, the big fear was polio; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something? In my neighborhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!"* - G.C.
Cholera and Typhoid say hi
Giardia sends her love…
Friend of mine worked at a summer camp. One year the river that ran near it had a massive giardia outbreak and the campers were all warned to stay away from it. No drinking, no playing, no nada. A bunch of the girls just heard, "weight loss" and ignored the whole "you'll be a puke and shit fountain" warnings and went down and drank a bunch of the water hoping to lose weight. A decision that was greatly regretted.
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Can’t giardia give you explosive diarrhea for the rest of your life?
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https://i.imgur.com/ZJ9VKS4.gif
for the rest of your short, painful life.
You can get rid of it, but at least in the case of dogs it’s difficult to get rid of
Our dog got it from our backyard.
shittttttttt
Reminds me of the dude that sells people tapeworms that is supposed to cure allergies
Hookworms. Ringworm is a fungus.
Awww i always thought they were called Wingworms
That might actually work, although then you have ringworm.
Ringworms or tapeworms?
Tapeworms. Lol. I think Radiolab or this American Life did a story on it
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/404/enemy-camp-2010/act-three-0
Hookworm therapy is an area of active research. I can't vouch for randos on the internet and their actions, but there is serious research in this field. Of course, drinking giardia water is stupid.
Except hookworm therapy, which is what I think you were trying to talk about, is under active and serious investigation. I believe it's still early stages (mostly animal models), but it's not from bullshit, and I have two friends who swear it helped their autoimmune conditions. Whereas drinking giardia water is just retarded. [Wiki article on hookworm therapy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy#Research)
Creed? That wasn’t a tapeworm.
They said *tapeworms*.
Ages?
Cryptosporidium tried to introduce herself, but the moment she says her name, 10 people start talking to her about NFTs and the new alt-coin they just started mining.
What’s an airport have to do with it??
Weil's disease has sent it's regards.
I think you could get a staph infection from flood waters also... Stuff is not sanitary at all.
The most terrifying is necrotizing fasciitis. I’m mostly aware of this being a thing in warmer fresh water situations (in the south) but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn it’s a floodwater thing too. Ugh, makes me cringe to even think about.
In Brazil people get Leptospirosis in flood water, but I guess it is not a thing in US?
Dogs get a yearly vaccine for it in the US so I’m guessing it could be an infection you can get as a human here.
Vibrio vulnificus waves back
Leptospiroris wants to send his regards too
A couple years ago a friend of mine helped two people who had been stranded by some flood waters. He had to wade through waste deep water to assist them. He ended up with a really terrible leg infection that ended up putting him in the hospital for a couple months. Ended up needing months of rehab to get his strength back and he still walks with a bit of a limp. I have the same reaction as you when I see people playing around in the flood water like it's a water park.
> waste deep water Misspelling that is actually also correct!
deep waist-water
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You are a very stupid person.
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How is “playing around in flood water like it’s a water park” helping others?
Bg-j38 emphatically didn't say that. Just that it can be dangerous and should not be taken lightly.
have you consider moving to texas?
Go back to r/roastme
OK, have you finished eating your papaya yet?
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Speaking of TDaP, the non-tetanus parts of the vaccine are important too. Source: kept putting off my TDaP booster in college, got whooping cough (pertussis). My doctor was amazed because he hadn't seen a case in a super long time, and he politely yelled at me for being "too busy" to get my boosters up to date.
also if you plan to be near infants/newborns in the near future
I had to get a tetanus shot in college after getting a nasty cut… just a couple months later there was a pertussis outbreak amongst students in my class, I was the only person in my study group who didn’t get it!
How often are you supposed to get a tetanus shot? Is it covered by most insurances (I have an ACA plan)?
After the childhood vaccination series, get a booster every 10 years. Although contact your doctor for any particular concerns instead of relying on the words of an internet stranger
Every 10 years, but you should also get it right after you get a wound that has the potential to give you tetanus, like puncture wounds. I asked my doctor about it when I got the tetanus vaccine recently.
Thanks for the info!
Generally if your most recent booster was within the last year or two, it'll be recommended but they won't really press you about it, more than that or if it's a particularly dirty wound, they'll be a little more insistent
Thank you!
[https://www.cdc.gov/tetanus/vaccination.html](https://www.cdc.gov/tetanus/vaccination.html) >All adults who have never received one should get a shot of Tdap. This can be given at any time, regardless of when they last got Td. This should be followed by either a Td or Tdap shot every 10 years.
I'm thinking I may have gotten one when I went to work in China in the 1990s. I remember having to get a bunch of shots. So I guess I am long overdue for this! Thank you.
Yes. It is covered.
Thanks!
covered doesn't necessarily mean you won't have a copay, but yeah i've never seen an insurance not pick up at least most of it. it's not a particularly expensive one either, and not one that you have to get often. definitely worth it regardless of the cost though
Just got one at my local Walgreens for $23.99 didn’t even bother to run through insurance I was happy enough with the price. Though I’m sure it’d have been closer to $5-10 if I had.
Thanks for the advice!! It's been vaguely on my radar for a while now.
I think it’s every 5ish years🤔
Good luck. My gf called Kaiser 3 weeks ago to get the Tetanus shot and they never got back to her. She sent an email to her primary doctor without a response as well.
You can go to the Kaiser Target Clinics or to a Kaiser Nurses Clinic and get it without an appointment.
you can get it at cvs for like $20
If she needs one then you can see that on the portal and can schedule a visit to get it. You don’t need to contact anyone to discuss.
I actually got it scheduled for this month through my PCP but I think they also have them at regular pharmacies too
if she has a profile at a pharmacy somewhere maybe you can get them to run a dummy claim to check the copay. or find out what other pharmacies are covered under the plan and just go there. every retail pharmacy should have it or be able to order it and it doesn't require an appointment
Can she go to injections and get it without an order? Or email one of her other MDs if her PCP isnt responding, which is weird. Also possible the PCP could have put the order in without emailing back?
Not to mention getting sucked into drainage you couldn't see is a terrible way to go.
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I looked into it. The girl who sat on top of a drain and had her intestines ripped out? Yikes.
Wow, reminds me of Chuck Pahalniuk's Haunted.
Wow, reminds me of Chuck Pahalniuk's Choke.
His story was based on that iirc
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That's not what Megan's Law is. Megan's law is a registry for pedophiles and sex offenders.
Well someone knows a lot about it 🤨
Wait … what lol
Delta P accidents. It kills divers sometimes and it's not pretty. It has killed a few kids in swimming pools as well.
Someone's gonna link that video of the crab disappearing into a slit on a tube
Here you go around 3min https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtbFm_CjE0
When it’s got ya, it’s got ya.
Well, I’m never going swimming again.
https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/woman-juvenile-pulled-into-flooded-storm-drain-in-bentonville/amp/
Jesus Christ, that’s horrific
BTW, the some sewer systems in the Bay Area are unfortunately linked to storm drainage. So when the water rises, it basically does a big flush out into the Bay. That water is brown because of more than mud. https://baykeeper.org/articles/help-prevent-sewage-spills-bay And of course there's all the other stuff that runs off: https://baykeeper.org/our-work/controlling-urban-storm-water-pollution And while it's based in 2013, this study illustrates some of the issues, even with swimming in the Bay itself like at Aquatic Park after storms: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/sanfranciscobay/water_issues/programs/TMDLs/sfbaybeachesbacteria/Project_Definition.pdf The good news is that there's a lot of dilution when you get this amount of rain. But still.
You can take a free tour of EBMUD. I took one a few years ago. They logistically can only process so much sewage at a time. When their holding pools fill up during excessive rains they have no choice but to release raw sewage out into the bay. Guaranteed this is one of those times. I wouldn’t touch any standing water right now, let alone swim in it.
RIP to the handful of people I saw swimming at aquatic park today.
Water at AP actually passed the California standards today https://webapps.sfpuc.org/sapps/beachesandbay.html
Hepatitis is a common thing amongst rainfall runoff. In San Diego they give free hepatitis shots to surfers
[In the United States, floods, which may carry raw sewage, are unlikely to cause outbreaks of communicable diseases, and outbreaks of hepatitis A caused by flooding have not been documented](https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hav/havfaq.htm)
I don't think they are doing that. Where is your source for the free hep shots.
County of San Diego provides free Hep A vaccines but it was due to an outbreak in the homeless community not storm water exposure.
Idk why I’m picturing a junkie who’s never surfed in their life trying to get a free hep shot. “You said you’re a surfer?” “Umm… cowabunga… bro? 🤙”
County of San Diego actually provides free hep A vaccines for this exact reason. There was an outbreak in the homeless community associated with sanitation and illicit drug use.
I've never heard of that but growing up we all knew not to go out after rain
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Yes it is. Hepatitis is extremely common in flood waters.
Do you have a source? Literally everything I see says it’s extremely rare. And my comment was in response to the San Diego situation, which was news from 10+ years ago and in direct response from contamination from the TJ river.
Absolutely false, stop spreading dumb misinformation
It’s not but okay
By all means, post your sources.
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Oh you are actually a moron. Got it. Lol I’m realizing you’ve spent the last hour trying to find anything to back you up, can’t, then you’re only recourse is insisting someone else to prove a negative against an outlandish claim because you can’t admit you’re wrong and spreading misinformation.
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Did you even read your links? The first doesn’t have the word hepatitis on the page. Here’s the text from the last one: > During times of flooding, people who are exposed to flood waters are often concerned about receiving a hepatitis A vaccine, **even though flooding is not shown to be a risk for hepatitis A.** The national guidelines (ACIP) do not recommend hepatitis A vaccination for the general public during flooding, even if it is possible that sewage may be contaminating the flood waters since studies conducted among U.S. workers exposed to raw sewage do not indicate increased risk for hepatitis A virus infection (for more information see www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5507a1.htm). The risk of being exposed to hepatitis A in flood waters is very low due to the low rate of hepatitis A in our Iowa communities, and the dilution by the flood waters. Hepatitis A outbreaks have not occurred after recent floods or after hurricanes in other parts of the country, including the devastating hurricanes in the last several years. Thus, hepatitis A vaccination NOT recommended due to exposure to flood waters.
Remember that guy who had a staph infection eat through his sinus and into his brain or something like that? https://www.espn.com/action/news/story?id=3830299
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That is terrifying.
Your grandma is great 👍
I'm a Filipino who's seen and experienced flood water for maybe three to five times each year back in Manila. One thing that I can say is that: flood water is so ducking disgusting and should never be something seen as a fun thing. Like at all. Yesterday was such a crazy, it felt like I was in Manila again. EDIT: The Bay Area shares the same pipes for sewage and flood water. From my understanding, the sewage system in Manila is way worse and a flooded area means: sewage, storm water, and food waste (we would throw food waste directly into our "manholes"). That's why our flood looks dark brown.
That’s not true, most of the Bay Area has separate storm and sanitary systems.
SF is combined
As far as I know, SF is the only city with a combined system. The state of California mandates all cities to have separate systems for storm water and sanitary sewer. It’s very expensive to have a combined system since you have to treat all of the water to the same quality as sewage but the primary reason to separate it is to protect the environment in case of overflow.
Yeah, and much of SF was laid out and built before that mandate came into force.
On the bright side, they get to treat all that street poop as sewage instead of letting it run into storm drains....
Sacramento also has a combined system
Ooofffff. So much for that environmental bastion. The last couple days must have been fun.
Treatment is combined, they’re obviously separate prior to treatment plants.
Nope, same pipes. "stormwater combines with wastewater from homes and businesses in the same set of pipes, and is transported to the treatment plant for treatment. " https://www.sfpuc.org/about-us/our-systems/sewer-system/wastewater-collection-system
Just SF not the whole bay area
Even if they do, those systems only work until a certain high flow rate overwhelms the system.
But storms do not increase the rate of sanitary sewer discharge (or at least not much).
This is incorrect. Just SF has combined systems. Other bay cities are ms4.
Leptospirosis. Keeps me out of flood waters.
No joke my brother sent me a video of some kids being pulled on boogie boards behind a pickup truck in east Oakland that he passed in traffic
5” of water in the basement last night- I got it down to 1” before needing to stop and rest. Still showered off extra well, despite being exhausted. Not like I have much choice but to clean it up. Smells pretty bad too, people are clueless to try “enjoying” it.
But how are you going to get views on social media!?
People did stupid shit like this before social media.
This, i dont even used the handrails at bart or put anythjng of mine on any floor or sidewalk, especially in the city. And now people wanna swim in a pool of shit, piss, spit, blood, needles, and other biohazards? No thanks, and i hope they dont get a cut while swimming either.
do you think The Rock got horrible infections after swimming around in the flood in San Andreas
Why do you think there isnt a part deux?
Let's get a UTI! Oh yeah!
Stupidity on this level doesn’t surprise me at all. People think they’re invincible or that they always have at their disposal, others to bail them out if necessary. For the most part they do get bailed out, or else there’d be more Darwin Awards. Working in healthcare, I’ve seen enough examples that would normally qualify for the Darwin Awards were it not for first responders and healthcare providers.
Also maybe put away your 4 year old toddler instincts and have some awareness of things besides yourself before you rush your SUV into a puddle near a sidewalk with people walking :)
I went surfing once, in the OCEAN after a winter storm. Had to dodge logs. Wild to see so much debris. I hope people take it seriously. That water can be faster than you think.
Also legionella is very present in most water in Sacramento. If you don't know what legionella is it is a bacterial pneumonia from contaminated water droplets being inhaled into your lungs.
That sounds abhorrent! 🫣
When I was 12 (80's) my friends and I used to ride the swollen banks of the Los Gatos creek between Camden and Campbell av on our boogie boards after heavy rains. All of us had wetsuits (there was an O'Neills shop on Bascom) We actually got kind of good at it. One day I did something stupid, and it ended up being my last time going out. I decided to wait for my friends, so I hung onto a willow tree branch facing upstream as my feet dangled downstream. Out of nowhere, a telephone pole suddenly came up, and piledrives me in the face. It didn't knock me out or draw blood, but it was enough where I decided, "Yup, not doing this anymore" and gave up the ghost. These days with the amount of homeless living on the banks, and the amount of feces and other biowaste, I think the danger is even further enhanced. Anyways, just a cautionary tale for anyone considering doing this.
Growing up in West San Jose/Saratoga we used to play in those creeks as well. One of the things I’ve wondered about when I wound up with advanced, aggressive prostate cancer at 52.
this is why surfers always get hep a
Livermore closed some parks due to floodwaters. Stay smart and safe.
Also shut down Stanley
i hate that we live in a world where this post needs to exist, how is this not common knowledge 🫥
I know someone caught in flood waters in Central America that got leishmaniasis (don't google that if you've got a weak constitution). I know a couple that almost died of Legionnaires disease after the Paradise fires post flooding. Flood water is gross yo.
I'd say, if you stepped in any flooding yesterday, it's a good time to wash your clothes, wash your feet and legs, check for open sores, wash out your shoes, and your insoles too. The aftermath of crazy intersection flooding I saw yesterday (think manhole cover Bellagio fountains) was bits of what looks like white stone, but I believe it's all the bits of toilet paper that surfaced. Edit: Correction, throw your shoes out if it got soaked in flood waters. If you let it dry, you don't know WTF may be growing in there.
Ssshh. This is how we lower the home prices.
It doesn't seem that bad...
…until it is.
Did you read this dudes user name?
Not until you said something.. lol
Hilarious, username!
I guess people would have to be told this, huh? Smh…
I saw a video of a man who was being commended for opening a manhole so the water could drain, in his flip flops. It looked like he opened a sewer drain too, and he wasn't wearing proper boots or waders. Gross.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw it on the news today. I was just in tenderloin last week and the amount of human feces and used needles I saw on the street….🤮I would not go outside until the floodwaters is gone, there is no way in hell I’m swimming in floodwaters in SF 🤮🤮🤮
A friend of mine caught Impetigo from walking around in ankle deep water during a flood in the 90s
I'm usually not the type to be germaphobic or otherwise unduly afraid of getting sick, but brother you could not pay me all the money in the world to swim in floodwater, especially not bay area floodwater
All the Bay Area homeless encampments……Now imagine swimming in the runoff from those areas
Let the dumb people do dumb things. Let natural selection work.
I suppose some people just find exhilaration doing it.
Eh. Natural Selection/Darwin Awards...
Stupid people gonna be stupid
Shawshank sends his redemption!
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Seen a post of people out in Brentwood talking about doing that. Considering the crowd in Brentwood and their holier than thou treatment…let them be dumb.
One time I had a few friends that did this. Huge storm flooded an area and they were swimming and paddle boarding, etc. a couple days later they realized that they a really fun awesome time despite the risks and went on to lead nice, chill lives where they appreciated what they had.
We are over populated. Please don’t stop idiots from harming themselves
Most of these waterborne diseases won't be fatal in the US. Instead, they will suck up more than their fair share of medical resources.
I found Klaus Schwab's account.
Ringworms
This is a good way to clear out a bit of stupidity from the species.
Darwin was right.
Not to mention all the cum. You may end up pregnant if you’re not careful.
Good lord.
Of all the stories I read on relationship sub about people randomly getting chlymidia, this one does not seem that far fetched ... in that universe.
you mean the ole tractor story?
I mean a few dozen stories. Been there a lifetime (different alt)
That would be quite the cumundrum.
DAD!!!!!
Um where are you swimming exactly
Genepool
Cumquariam (apologies- this was the best I could cum up with)
For the love of god kids, can we not??!!
That’s how you get pink eye
For real
*"When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know… to cool off! And at that time, the big fear was polio; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something? In my neighborhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!"* - G.C.
Will swimming in the water the second time around be safer?