LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 @LukeAlmighty@gameliberty.club

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@LukeAlmighty @LukeAlmighty @nosleep there was that but also it's pretty easy to pickup a parasite and go years, decades, or even your entire life without realising.
A lot can also cause weird and minor symptoms or no symptoms at all and be difficult to test for. They can complicate sickness and also rarely is it the first or even third thing a doctor will even think to look for.

Hell, just going outside to check the mail and being too lazy to put on shoes can be enough to pickup a parasite. Or maybe it's raining and you step in a mud puddle...

Actually, ya know what? On my next family doctor follow-up visit I think I'll mention that to him. I often times feel kind of lethargic like I'm a little sick and over the past about 8 months or so I've noticed I get sick or get infections a lot easier than I used to.

I just kind of choked it up to not really "exercising" my immune system over the past 3 or so years with the facemasks and frequency hand washing/sanitizing I have to do for work but there might be more to it...

It'd probably be cheaper to just prescribe a broad spectrum antiparasitic to take than to do all of the tests to check for something.

Although, one worry I'd have with widespread routine antiparasitic medication is the possibility for things to mutate and develop resistance.

However, most of the bacterial resistance is due to people not actually taking the full round of antibiotics because they feel better ¾ of the way through. Plus, multicellular organisms reproduce and mutate way less frequently than single cells like bacteria.

It is still possible. For example, if many people in a neighbourhood have pets and all of them use the same flea prevention (e.g. Frontline Plus) then the fleas will usually mutate to become resistant to the presides in it. However, it's pretty much only limited to that area and once the pet owners realise it's not effective and switch to something else the fleas will lose the resistance and it'll naturally correct itself as different pet owners choose different products and now there's a wide range of pesticides in use in the neighbourhood.

Exterminators usually have the same issue and solve it by rotating the particular pesticide they use to spray.

I'm sure parasites would be similar. As long as the same medication isn't used everywhere and the medication used is rotated then it should be fine.

What was the thing you made all our avatars in?

not even sure any more

horrified to even look up the price on this pretentious faff

nvm, this is dumber