On the other hand, much of recent conversation turns on the likely effect of being too clean, and thus opening one to untold bacteria and possible infections. One report said the more children play outdoors the more likely they are to build basic immunity against infections, etc. There was an old saying about that, i.e. a little dirt will never hurt.
Don’t count bacteria out just yet, superbugs, they’re adapting to our antibiotics. You can be too aseptic, as Sanderling pointed out. Processed food is bad for you. Unfortunately, at present, you can’t trust a capitalist food industry, the Western food industry will kill you with fat, salt and sugar, the Chinese literally with poison additives.
An excellent book on the topic of the biome around us all the time is Rob Dunn’s Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live. Dunn makes a strong case that the chemical warfare we’re waging on the very few natural species that are harmful to humans is wreaking vast, unnecessary collateral damage on the vast majority that are either benign or helpful, and that this will work to the long-term detriment of humanity, as already evidenced by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
I quit tobacco at age 19.A pack a day.Kool’s,and Salem’s.Menthol was too much.Second hand smoked for twenty years.Ex was a smoker.Other’s in our family smoke,and will have a shorter life because of it ;(
http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2019/11/20Why, yes, I believe that is a Shaun of the Dead t-shirt Frazz is wearing subtly there. I liked that movie, even though, for all the hype, it wasn’t an especially different take. In fact, it stuck pretty close to the formula. And it was great fun anyway, and it did make a point, and that’s something. If someone’s going to have his entrails devoured, he should get the satisfaction of being part of a larger point.
Smoking is a slow killer. Bacterial and virus diseases affect people at young ages so eliminating their lethality is necessary before smoking becomes a major factor.
Nachikethass about 5 years ago
Whatever we may do to mitigate disease, nature will find a new way to cull or control the population of Human Beings, the destructive species.
Concretionist about 5 years ago
Great teaching moment: Don’t let Cibophobia ruin your lunch period!
Sanspareil about 5 years ago
I have to go with Scherzo on this one!!
Lyons Group, Inc. about 5 years ago
With smoking, I got out of that universe a long time ago…at the age of 12.
asrialfeeple about 5 years ago
I had, and have, no wish to see my money go up in smoke.
asrialfeeple about 5 years ago
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sandpiper about 5 years ago
On the other hand, much of recent conversation turns on the likely effect of being too clean, and thus opening one to untold bacteria and possible infections. One report said the more children play outdoors the more likely they are to build basic immunity against infections, etc. There was an old saying about that, i.e. a little dirt will never hurt.
well-i-never about 5 years ago
Eating.
cervelo about 5 years ago
Don’t count bacteria out just yet, superbugs, they’re adapting to our antibiotics. You can be too aseptic, as Sanderling pointed out. Processed food is bad for you. Unfortunately, at present, you can’t trust a capitalist food industry, the Western food industry will kill you with fat, salt and sugar, the Chinese literally with poison additives.
rugeirn about 5 years ago
Look around you at the people who go by on the street and it’s really easy to see what has replaced smoking. Obesity.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 5 years ago
An excellent book on the topic of the biome around us all the time is Rob Dunn’s Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live. Dunn makes a strong case that the chemical warfare we’re waging on the very few natural species that are harmful to humans is wreaking vast, unnecessary collateral damage on the vast majority that are either benign or helpful, and that this will work to the long-term detriment of humanity, as already evidenced by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Herb L 1954 about 5 years ago
I quit tobacco at age 19.A pack a day.Kool’s,and Salem’s.Menthol was too much.Second hand smoked for twenty years.Ex was a smoker.Other’s in our family smoke,and will have a shorter life because of it ;(
daijoboo Premium Member about 5 years ago
Driving everywhere; stuffing yourself with junk food
Kind&Kinder about 5 years ago
This is why Mother Nature allows oil and coal companies. What super bugs can’t accomplish, we’ll do for ourselves!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 5 years ago
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http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2019/11/20Why, yes, I believe that is a Shaun of the Dead t-shirt Frazz is wearing subtly there. I liked that movie, even though, for all the hype, it wasn’t an especially different take. In fact, it stuck pretty close to the formula. And it was great fun anyway, and it did make a point, and that’s something. If someone’s going to have his entrails devoured, he should get the satisfaction of being part of a larger point.
bike2sac about 5 years ago
We will all go together when we go.
whelan_jj about 5 years ago
Smoking is a slow killer. Bacterial and virus diseases affect people at young ages so eliminating their lethality is necessary before smoking becomes a major factor.
Ryan Plut about 5 years ago
Yeah. “Vaping”.
unfair.de 6 months ago
This strip at this specific time was kind of prophetic. I doubt that Jeff had heard of the mysterious disease that started just then in China.
But in the following years this seriously tilted the scales for germs as the number one killer.