[MR] Fwd: care with accusations Re: Pennsic Water Challenge

[Bambi TBNL]

Folks, even though the well water is  as pure as the local tap water and bottled water, how many of our encampments run garden hoses to their encampments to have running water in camp?. How many of those hoses are brand new every year or have been stored for an entire year reserved for that purpose  but no one flushed and sanitized them before drinking  water straight from them.human error lurks everywhere even though the actual water was fine at the point it was tested. My dad was apretty well known micro biologist. In my youth i also knew him as a fun spoiler and a suspected sufferer of OCD i was invited to a lake swim party at my Godmother"s  when i was  23 and he showed up the day befor to test the lake water for parasites........pretty funny now but .....any way, my point is, he was right to assume possible contamination and options for illness everywhere but wrong to belive putting the world in a sterile bubble would fix it.. As far as following govt regs...the coopers water does that .pennsic wouldnt happen otherwise. As far as the options for that to get screwed up in between source and consumer? 10,000 give or tke a few thou. Bottled drinking water, sanitizig your drinking vesseles and other dishes, covering your food, boiling or cooking at high heat, washing and sanitizing anything eaten fresh, and knowing your personal limitaions as in alergies , sensitivities and triggers , is a way to protect your self and be able to enjoy more. If you see a  place selling food that seem to not be in compliance with the healyh dept. regs, dont eat there or ask about their ratings. My dad used to...it humiliated the hell out of me but he did live through several wars,  childhood in a dirtfloor cabin, a tomato allergy that could have killed him and a trip through china at90 where he refused to eat anything but boiled rice and boiled eggs , insisting stir frying was not cooking long or hoy enough to render food safe.( When i say survided I mean the 40 other folks on the tour did not strangle him and he lived another 7 years. He actually died of heat stroke due to his stubborness but that is a different story for a different dicussion)