There will probably be a huge pandemic. I'm not sure it will be cholera-like. Or at least not the one that kills everybody. Cholera is pretty treatable even if medicines don't work (e.g. ORS, books about mass murder in Colorado, etc.). I think the real game changer will come from something that recently crossed over from an animal, not something already pooped out by humans.
Not that I'm opposed to not pooping in rivers.
Obviously, everybody who touches door knobs is going to die.
3: While those who don't are condemned to eternal life in a room with a closed door.
I meant to read the whole review but then I got distracted by the name "Shah" and looked up to see if she was related to the Shah-Shah. She wasn't, but I forgot to finish the article.
People named "Shah" are typically Indian. Some people named Shahi are Iranian. I hope this saves you some time in the future.
In any case, almost certainly not Iranian and/or related to Pahlavi family.
Anyway, I feel like I should read the book. I'm getting bored with novels.
I came away thinking I should read Quammen's Spillover.
I'm pretty sure that just recommends not touching door knobs.
Pahlavi family.
What a Pahlavi, what an absolute treat
To watch a [Persian] cat and its father pick a bone in the street!
I made it as far as "I carry a bottle of hand sanitizer wherever I go". Hand sanitizer is almost always unnecessary and is the sign of a Howard Hughes level germophobe. Next.
Lots of people should carry it. If you have a baby, you need it for after diaper changes if you can't get to a sink. If you like to shit in parking garages, you need it. If you go camping, you need it.
Politicians and others who shake hands with hundreds of people a day need it because it's more subtle than running to a sink after you great a guy who looks like he shits in parking garages.
Police officers should have some, because of maybe having to arrest same.
Hand sanitizer is very important if we are going to breed the next generation of invulnerable diseases. Natural selection doesn't just happen without our help!
Why would you need hand sanitizer for camping? For food prep after shitting in the woods?
If you want to be crude about it, yes. Or chewing your fingernails after shitting in the woods.
I guess you can just not wipe your butt until you get back, but that seems uncomfortable.
A friend of mine once attempted not shitting until he got back, but he didn't make it.
Can you still visit him in the woods?
23: As I recall from the camping trips of my youth, this often happened to me without any conscious effort.
Not pooping most of the time without conscious effort is pretty common once you get outside of Ohio, not just when camping.
26: Good point -- I've never gone camping in Ohio.
I've pooped in the great outdoors on four continents! Worship me, indoor-toilet-dependent weaklings! Worship me!