It’s the summer time now – people are going to be hitting the pools in droves from here on through Labor Day. Quick shout out to the Wave Pool – who remembers the days of hitting up that sketch ass pool in the Middle Tennessee summers??? This guy does!
Anyway, just a general PSA (because that’s what we do here as responsible journalists), it’s probably not a good idea to drink the water from a swimming pool.
Courtesy of The Salt Lake Tribune:
Cryptosporidium is a parasitic infection spread through ingesting trace amounts of infected poop. It is the most common diarrheal infection linked to swimming pools, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and can survive in chemically treated water for up to 10 days.
MotherFUCKER! I just ate…damn it. Now, my stomach is in knots and I feel like I could legit go puke right now. But, I have a job to do here so I’m just going to power through. I’m not bragging or anything…I’m just saying. I will do whatever it takes to make sure the news gets reported and some might call that heroic.
Anyway, the basic revelation here is….in case you missed it….local swimming pools are probably full of poop and urine. And, depending on where you go, there’s also the possibility of vomit and cum, but those are the adults-only pools.
Meanwhile, a national survey conducted on behalf of the Water and Health Council suggests that one in four adults have gone swimming within an hour of having diarrhea and about three in five admitted to swallowing pool water while swimming.
Damn, I didn’t know that many adults are walking around having regular diarrhea. You’re telling me I can go to a pool, pick out four adults, and one of those shitheads was puking out their butts as recently as an hour ago??!?! That seems like an excessive amount of diarrhea.
“Your local public swimming pool is not your local toilet or bathtub,” said Ledbetter. “You wouldn’t want to drink the water from the toilet bowl or bathtub and take on those germs.”
You know….just a quick note here….I don’t really like what Ledbetter (whoever the fuck that is) is implying here. No, you wouldn’t drink out of the toilet, but you also wouldn’t swim in a toilet either. The takeaway for me here is not that I should not drink pool water, it’s that I should stay the hell away from swimming pools altogether. Too many people running around spurting diarrhea.
According to the CDC, key safeguards include staying out of public pools for at least two weeks after having diarrhea; rinsing off before entering a pool or after going to the bathroom; and not swallowing pool water.
Or, if you’re Nashville Shores, you can essentially replace your pool water with Chlorox. I don’t think anyone has to worry about any sort of infection from those pools. You may come home with bleach burns, but hell yeah – I’ll take that all day every day over some sort of poop infection. I’m pretty sure my hair is falling out because of spending time on that lazy river, but I am more than okay with that. Nashville Shores doesn’t fuck around when it comes to their pool water.
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