The Parasite On The Loose： Is This A Health Concern or Fear Mongering？
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Summary
This week, we talk about a new virus that's sweeping across the country, and why it's being called a "poop pandemic" on social media. Plus, we discuss the worst air quality in the world, and whether or not we should be worried about it.
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so why would a guy like me call it a pandemic why would other people online call it a pandemic
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outside of not being able to pronounce the latin name for it but why are we fear-mongering again
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in the news as america celebrates its 250th birthday they're celebrating in style with
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something that's being called a poop pandemic on social media because of a horrible virus sweeping
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through america especially in michigan and ohio and it's affected thousands of people well that's
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what it's called brady i think no but i think that's what we called it i don't know is the
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media reporting it as a poop pandemic it's well i think the ones that have trouble like pronouncing
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the actual latin name of the virus okay all right well i just pulled when i was making the calendar
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for this week i just pulled it and i i figured let's call it the poop pandemic so i'm i'm not
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surprised that that's the name that's caught on but what exactly is the poop pandemic it doesn't
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really sound like a pandemic jim you know it basically there's approximately seven to eight
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thousand people across 32 states in america who are affected by this virus and it's a gastrointestinal
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virus it's bloating cramping vomiting but the biggest thing is is what they're calling diarrhea
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and it goes days on end until it leaves your system and the center for disease control in
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america are pointing to salad and lettuce and onions and taco bell is the biggest culprits
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so taco bell this is an actual thing corporate headquarters have had to remove a bunch of items
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from their menu because it concerns okay taco taco bell i love taco bell you just had some
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last night i had some last night and i worked so late that i i didn't even get it in me until
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about 11 o'clock i was asleep by 11 30 so i went to sleep uh wrong uh with a full belly full of
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taco bell so now i'm scared thanks well okay but the experts are saying it's basic food handling
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safety wash everything you don't eat berries or lettuce or fruits and vegetables so thoroughly
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washing them in your sink that seems basic you wash your hands a lot while you're handling food
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and making something a proper hygiene and it's it's something they've been talked about for years
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if you rinse salads and vegetables and lettuce and fruits and whatnot
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and thoroughly prepare them and rinse it and then cook them properly,
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But if you think, it's fine, I'm just going to grab this in the store.
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When we were younger, well, definitely when you were younger,
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but when I was younger, you had the ability to kind of just grab
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a piece of broccoli or a grape or one of those things out of your basket
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that you've earned and eat it and you didn't worry about it.
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but now no like you know when you see that wax uh kind of covering over top of grapes yeah to me i
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always thought oh that's just naturally the way that the skin looks until i've actually seen a
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winery and they're like they waste it where's the covering yeah yeah where's the covering so that
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seems to be like residue from whatever there's being sprayed now here's the other fact there
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are approximately 342 million people in america now that's the current population it's a big
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population and we're talking about seven eight maybe nine thousand people who have this disorder
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so why would a guy like me call it a pandemic why would other people online call it a pandemic
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outside of not being able to pronounce the latin name for it but why are we fear-mongering again
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in the news it a little bit and let's face it um chorus entertainment as we speak today
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are firing dozens and dozens of people in calgary and edmonton and vancouver and it's it's been a
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bad couple weeks for canadian media yeah where they're just slashing and burning and american
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media is the same way this gets clicks this gets views this is red this creates content in the
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wall street journal and bloomberg news and major networks are covering it you know i think 30 years
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ago it would have been oh and by the way yeah it's the third or fourth item in a news thing
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it would have been the the story before the water skiing squirrel exactly yeah yeah like i'm ron
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burgundy yeah exactly but now it's like oh wait a sec this is views this is clicks red alert red
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alert oh my god yeah you know what's a red alert is when you go outside in the air you can't breathe
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because of smoke from a wildfire that is a much bigger concern for the population of not just
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ontario but it's going into right like today as we're talking detroit is the worst air quality
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in the world toronto had it yesterday yeah toronto had it yesterday you couldn't even see it was uh
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it was supposed to be a sunny day beautiful day and we got completely smoked and they had to cancel
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outdoor viewing parties for the world cup yesterday it was not safe that to me personally
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that's affecting way way more people than the potential for this that someone got lazy didn't
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wash their vegetables and fruits or maybe had taco bell 11 30 after a six-hour bender at the pub i
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i didn't do that that was no i don't drink that's not what i like but i know what you mean i know
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what you mean so late night taco bell maybe stay away from it and that's no that's no uh late night
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fast food for anyone you might have it may not agree with you i'm not trying to throw dirt on
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that franchise either what i'm saying is i think just because they use so many fresh ingredients
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that's probably why and they just happens to be a meme that you know taco bell can so that
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in the stories there's a photo of someone holding a bag of taco bell but what they're doing is
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a lot of the the protos items that are being caused as the point of this they're removing it
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until further notice okay out of precaution well i woke up this morning and i noticed um because
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i had only been seeing articles and and and headlines coming in from the united states
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specifically uh michigan and ohio that's where it's biggest yeah but this morning i did see
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quebec saying that there is a parasite going around in some of these fruits and vegetables
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they're saying it's not the same parasite as far as they know but but we now have our own warnings
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yes but the the emergency doctor a brilliant doctor as he said wash wash wash everything yeah
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wash your hands while you're preparing food and cooking wash all the vegetables and fruits it's
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kind of food prep 101 and it's hygiene 101 and hygiene is i mean it's something that has been
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an issue for people for generations and and it's still a big thing if you exercise proper hygiene
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you're probably going to be okay look i thought we got the hygiene thing figured out over six
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years when we were told everywhere we had to go we had to put hand sanitizer on and wash your hands
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nine times a day to the point where they're bleeding exactly and get cracks in your knuckles
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i thought we figured this out why are we back to not washing our hands again jimmy brady i don't i
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don't know but that's what the emergency doctor out of montreal said and that's what the center
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for disease controlled america is saying are they're reminding people to be thorough washing
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your hands and then thoroughly rinse all your vegetables well they're also saying too when
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you're rinsing vegetables and you're rinsing fruits now to maybe use a vinegar solution with
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your water right that could also uh help prevent things like this from happening and it also keeps
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your food a little bit fresh longer right so like one part vinegar three part water whatever the
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the whatever your preference is i'm thinking though if you use vinegar and you're like washing
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a whole big bin of raspberries do a very good job on trying to rinse those because there's so many
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crevices in something like a raspberry or strawberry that you're gonna take a bite get that vinegar
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taste it might throw you off from it but it does keep your food preserved a little bit more washing
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it with vinegar and water and it seems to clean it and keep it clean let's face it it was what
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about four or five months ago believe it was a cruise ship oh yeah they had a carnival half the
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people yeah had an illness right there was a hotel in mexico a third of the guests had gastrointestinal
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illness are you really surprised though about a cruise ship having in this issue because cruise
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ship seems to be just a floating vessel of chaos and and why anyone does viruses no but so i know
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a lot and you're right a lot has been made about this in the news and news cycle but we just have
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to go over the last few years and there was like a hotel here a cruise ship here the different
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things so this is not totally unusual these things happen like happen well and it's been
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happening since the beginning of humanity right because up until from the research i've done up
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until about 150 to 200 years ago this was like one of the number one killers was diarrhea and
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dysentery and parasites from foods and waters and things like that sanitation you were talking
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about Gettysburg they just had their uh their anniversary so they had the anniversary of
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Gettysburg and I'm fascinated by the civil war in Gettysburg and they had mentioned one of the
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experts one of the PhD in American history said you know prior to the battle when the troops are
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in camp on both sides the biggest casualty was from illness dysentery and cholera because of
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poor sanitation poor hygiene and they were sick remember when we were younger too when the the
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computer stir first started coming around the very first game that i ever got that was an educational
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game was the oregon trail and that was one of the things that you could do was die from dysentery by
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not being clean not being or not boiling your water boiling your water right and you have all
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all these survival games and video games now where that's one of the main things like these zombie
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games and surviving alone in the woods you boil your water you use charcoal tablets things like
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that so and the taylor sheridan show i think it's called 1883 okay where it depicts the um dutton
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family leaving texas and going out to montana on the oregon trail and it and sam elliott is
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brilliant in it and it shows how many people didn't make it yeah for and disease was one of
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big reasons and they said if you if you fell ill in the morning you were done by midday look at
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even food poisoning i don't know what like there's different types of food poisoning people get it
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quite everyone's had it at one point you know a lot of the time you feel like it's just heat
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stroke coming on if it's in the summer then it turns into something completely different
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and i think even food poisoning was like a pretty dangerous thing until we realized that
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this is the link to dehydration other things like that um antibiotics and we get iv drips from some