I've always liked animals, and one of the things I always liked as a kid was any kind of petting zoo. Even if it was hanging around a bunch of goats and sheep, it was really cool. Just a great part of being a kid.
Now, parents are advised to let their young ones look, but not touch. Something about disease.
...under-fives should not be allowed to touch animals at petting farms, a diseases expert says amid E.coli fears over four sites ...
OK. We make sure our youngsters are protected. Don't play in the mud. Use your hand sanitizer (but don't huff it). Take this antibiotic if you have the sniffles.
Something's wrong here. As kids, we drank from the neighbor's garden hose. We shared a Coke several ways, passing the bottle from hand to mouth -- and those who worried about germs would wipe the mouth of the bottle with a bare hand. We'd play baseball games at the end of the street, scatter when a car pulled up, and sometimes kept score. The only real danger there was knocking the ball in one neighbor's front yard, because there was a rumor he cooked and ate children.
Good thing there's a statute of limitations on such things, or DSS would be after our moms and dads today.
2 comments:
Really interested in this item as i have always kept pets whilst bringing my kids up as i think exposure to both animals dirt and the accompanying germs are good for building immune systems, I do not mean kissing them but generally being around them bit like what you are saying, I wonder how many of the kids that got sick had ever been in contact with animals i know it was a food poisoning type outbreak but i have not heard that it was ingested so it suggests it was passed just by touch it looks to me like we have an entire generation with no immune system at all
Thank you, stugod ... we're not building better immune systems, but bigger germs.
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