Hardly a day goes by without some survey showing that all our kids are now allergic to just about everything . At the same time we are told that we are all unclean and the world we live in is unclean. So presumably we will all be issued with protective clothing soon to avoid contact with anything that might remotely contaminate us.
Well as a grumpy older person I have no allergies (so far) other than coming out in a rash everytime I read this stuff from the nanny state bureau. My mum's old cleaning lady used to take me in the garden as a youngster and get me to put my hands in the soil for five mins. "Get some real dirt under your finger nails" she used to say. That way you will be in touch with nature and beat off the germs. I followed her advice though I confess I do like a clean set of finger nails. I have always eaten just about anything and have travelled the world for many years in developing countries,drinking and eating local stuff. So far I have never had a problem and the only time I had any problems was in London eating a bad oyster(dont touch them these days).
We are in danger of becoming a too sterile society and our kids will have no natural immunity to anything. The problems in hospitals are of course partly due to lack of proper cleaning but to a large extent I suspect are due to our obsession with sell by dates (a ploy by the food industry to make us throw away perfectly good products) and general lack of resistance to bugs which are all around us every day.
Is it not curious that while we are becoming obsessed with infection control and sell by dates at the same time our rubbish piles up and the rats multiply because the councils no longer want to provide a proper service. Thoughts???
michael
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