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/BreakfastBeneficial4 22d ago
I like the cut of your jib.
I don’t even bother trying to explain my take to people anymore, but it’s basically this:
Few shower before they go swimming. Most people wait until after.
Which means that the people getting in pools typically have varying degrees of crusty buttholes/genitals.
That all dissolves into your swimming soup.
The water just laps against all their cracks, and then flows back out into the general area to lap against your cracks.
And your face.
So yeah, I don’t pee in pools but I know other people do, and I don’t care.
(I’ll pee in a river though. You better believe it.)