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RE: Ulog #082 | Market Friday in Cumaná
Little fish live in the sewer water running along the streets, and children eat these fish? Without getting sick? Henrry, these images are horrifying, and you (as always) nail it with insights like these:
- Not everything is as bad as this, but this is a reality that must be made public, otherwise it is not happening.
- The worst thing poverty does to people is not that it subjects them to hardships and penury that weakens the spirit, but that it fosters conformism.
- It normalizes a state of being/living/seeing that makes it impossible for the person to even conceive a different, prettier, better world.
Thanks for stopping by, @carolkean. About the kids, I say every day that it is a miracle we have not had so far a pandemic. In the town I grew up it was very common to see small children interacting with animals, walking barefoot amid mud and manure, eating food without having washed it first, etc.
My mother raised us differently, but once in a while she suggested that a little exposure was necessary because people believed that helped the body developed antibodies.
There might be some true to this folk wisdom because what these kids do with that sewage water you have to see it to believe it.
Yesterday, I was walking to get a bottle of potable water and I saw a couple, a young man and a young woman crouching by a pile of trash eating rotten vegetables. Do they get sick? most likely, but they must recover pretty soon and eventually, who knows, maybe they become inmune.
At the very least, they seem to have been immunized against hope.
Absolutely, our use of hand sanitizers, germicides, and antibiotics is messing up our immune systems. Normally I'd google a dozen links to support that assertion, but you already know this. Your mom has a point - "a little exposure" vs too much of a good thing. This is sad: At the very least, they seem to have been immunized against hope.