A Picture is Worth: Improve Your Immune System

This made me smile. It's quite true!

My maternal grandmother was a complete clean-freak - everything had to be spotless, and everything had to be cleaned whether it needed it or not. Every now and then my mother (a child at the time) stayed the night at someone else's house. She frequently became sick after these stays - she couldn't exactly build up many immunities in her own immaculate home.

Now that is a hotel I would be proud to stay at.

makes me smile too. We've had an antibacterial ban in our house for a while now and my flora's never looked better. Microbes keep the world safe for us, without them we can't exist.

This sign is hilarious!

As a kid our house was never spotlessly clean, and we have no allergies, whereas many of my friends who had neat-freak parents had allergies.

Of course, my brother's children have allergies from living in a disgustingly dirty house, so it goes both ways.

haha
you gotta love the dutches!

The sign made me laugh - especially the 'They are right?!' scrawled at the bottom... then I got to wondering whether it'll work from a marketing point of view...

This hits right home!

A lot of very expensive habits were adopted into American convention in fear of bacteria and viruses. Some intelligent habits of other nations were not. I wonder how may over-the-counter medications were more valuable to the drug companies than the clients? We destroy rivers and lakes with sewage, while Asian countries value greatly humanure for veggie gardens on the outskirts of cities and feed it regularly to aquaculture ponds that breed fis we import and eat daily! We threaten our food with radiation and wore in an attempt to blanket-solve problems worked out by careful peasants in other countries ages ago! Maybe mass production is a crude ineffective tool for some applications, food production being one of them. Post (GRD) great republican depression, America will have many idle hands ready and willing to do even basic chores for a bite to eat and a place on the ladder of society and better food production skills will be counted as valuable, dirty-handed, but valuable! Slowly we will both turn back the hands of time and return to our agrarian roots, and move forward understanding and applying science and technology more carefully. Dirty fingernails may never quite accepted at the dinner table, but a normal, unscented body oder may be! Post GRD will be an interesting time for America and the bugs will be present and ce\arefully controlled in a more reasonable and less expensive way to be sure!