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People are getting explosive gastroenteritis at the Grand Canyon

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PostedJun 28, 2022 at 1:17 pm

Love this paragraph from an Ars Technica article:

“While many may have sought the outdoor grandeur in hopes of avoiding the pandemic coronavirus, it seems they were instead met with a different germ that has been savagely hollowing out innards at a pace many orders of magnitude faster than the Colorado River gutted the southwestern section of the Colorado Plateau. Amid the smoothly carved buttes and intricately chiseled chasms serenely shaped over eons, park-goers are blowing chunks from both ends in hot seconds. And instead of reaching both the North and South Rims during their visits, some are forced to remain perched on the edge of a far smaller basin.”

MJ H BPL Member
PostedJun 28, 2022 at 9:54 pm

I got vaccinated, but the government can’t make me wash my hands.

MJ H BPL Member
PostedJun 29, 2022 at 9:27 pm

“Norovirus causes evacuation” is the kind of headline that could be interpreted in more than one way.

HkNewman BPL Member
PostedJun 29, 2022 at 10:28 pm

Norovirus has spread on popular trails hitting backpackers, so it makes sense at the Grand Canyon (probably water fountains, toilet facilities, etc..).

My elderly parents caught it on a Portugal cruise right before COVID hit.  A rough way to lose 30 lbs..

AK Granola BPL Member
PostedJul 3, 2022 at 9:58 pm

I wonder if people are getting sicker from these types of bugs than before Covid. With isolating for a long time, are we less resistant to the usual suite of nasties? My kid’s college (in NY state) had a big outbreak of Norovirus this spring, with over 160 cases in a week’s time; not sure of the grand total. The school even put up a triage tent to give kids liquids and move some off to the emergency room as needed. His roommate got sick, but he slept on a couch, used a mask, washed hands and chloroxed all the touch surfaces with zeal. Didn’t get it.

Some of the ultralighters refuse to carry any kind of soap or hand sanitizer. Don’t camp with them!

MJ H BPL Member
PostedJul 3, 2022 at 10:19 pm

I wonder if people are getting sicker from these types of bugs than before Covid. With isolating for a long time, are we less resistant to the usual suite of nasties?

I could see how that could happen. Not just isolation, but also we may have lived through the only two years in human history where a majority of people washed their hands as regularly they were supposed to and I think that ended.

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