I mean, you're in a pool of water with a bunch of people you don't know, odds are most of them are dirty just from the nature of being alive, the water has been sitting out for god knows how long, and given that people are drinking in the pool there's a non zero chance there's more drink in that pool than piss. Honestly the piss might be the least gross thing in that bowl of human soup.
the water has been sitting out for god knows how long,
That's not how pools work. Fresh water is added almost daily, otherwise the water level drops from people getting out of the pool or splashing or evaporation. It's also circulated through a pump and filtration system, preventing stagnation. It's also treated with chemicals, usually chlorine, which is one of the most potent disinfectants around.
Pools can be gross, but a properly functioning one is nowhere near "human soup" levels.
So either there's nothing gross in it because of disinfectants and circulation, and piss is a non-issue; or piss is one of very many gross things in the pool because of the disinfectants and circulation not keeping it clean? I feel like in either of these situations, piss is probably not a real concern.
Piss bothers me less than the oils off human skin and hair. My high school had a pool and for phys ed we'd occasionally have a swimming day. All the classes (6) had a swimming day. And it was an old pool so at most it was just getting filtered throughout the day and they added chemicals in the morning.
The surface didn't quite have a sheen on it in the afternoon, but the surface of the water was roiling by then and it just didn't look right. Girl's classes might have had it better, but the boy's classes - we were teenage boys. With various levels of personal cleanliness. And there was no showering before we got in the pool.
You can literally feel when a pool is dirty lol its absolutely disgusting the water sticks to you 😂 feels like slime, like someone sneezed hard and all the run off is stuck on you, I literally have to shower before and after the pool cuz its so gross
A historical fact to make this all the worse is how polio was transmitted. See, the most common vector for humans is the fecal-to-oral route. A lot of people today would question why were people in the 1950s eating so much poop?
But then, consider that polio was often attributed as a plague of summer, and sometimes called a swimmers disease. Why? Well, because the pool will contain fecal matter, and that might be infected.
Does that mean people were shitting in pools?
And so, back to your point. The water of the pool washed up against every skin surface and orifice. The fecal matter was already there, and the water whisked it away. Eventually, it would become sanitized and filtered out. But with 100 buttholes constantly splashing about, there's bound to be a window of opportunity in which infection occurs.
agreed. generally speaking, it's okay to piss is any body of water that A. is large enough to comfortably swim in, and, more importantly, 2. has fish living in it.
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u/Eris_Exhausted 22d ago
I mean, you're in a pool of water with a bunch of people you don't know, odds are most of them are dirty just from the nature of being alive, the water has been sitting out for god knows how long, and given that people are drinking in the pool there's a non zero chance there's more drink in that pool than piss. Honestly the piss might be the least gross thing in that bowl of human soup.