This bacteria spreads by aerosolized mucus droplets. Might as well try to stop seasonal flu by boiling your bathwater. Most of the infection happens at work or at home, rather than the baths.
I gotcha- didn't know about the "immunity from milk" thing, thought you were saying it would transfer from person to person in our baths
Polio already is part of our population. Assuming things are generally the same. It's been an endemic disease in human populations IRL since at least Ancient Egypt. It only becomes a problem when things get cleaner and fewer people are immune to it on a massive and lengthy scale.
Article: Ancient Egyptian paintings and carvings depict otherwise healthy people with withered limbs, and children walking with canes at a young age.[4] It is theorized that the Roman Emperor Claudius was stricken as a child, and this caused him to walk with a limp for the rest of his life.[5] Perhaps the earliest recorded case of poliomyelitis is that of Sir Walter Scott. In 1773 Scott was said to have developed "a severe teething fever which deprived him of the power of his right leg".[6] At the time, polio was not known to medicine. A retrospective diagnosis of polio is considered to be strong due to the detailed account Scott later made,[7] and the resultant lameness of his left leg had an important effect on his life and writing.[8]
The symptoms of poliomyelitis have been described by many names. In the early nineteenth century the disease was known variously as: Dental Paralysis, Infantile Spinal Paralysis, Essential Paralysis of Children, Regressive Paralysis, Myelitis of the Anterior Horns, Tephromyelitis (from the Greek tephros, meaning "ash-gray") and Paralysis of the Morning.[9]In 1789 the first clinical description of poliomyelitis was provided by the British physician Michael Underwood—he refers to polio as "a debility of the lower extremities".[10] The first medical report on poliomyelitis was by Jakob Heine, in 1840; he called the disease Lähmungszustände der unteren Extremitäten ("Paralysis of the lower Extremities").[11] Karl Oskar Medin was the first to empirically study a poliomyelitis epidemic in 1890.[12] This work, and the prior classification by Heine, led to the disease being known as Heine-Medin disease.
So to our people it's already "just one of those things." Why do you say we'll get hit hard with it in a matter of time?
See this:
Polio was also already part of human populations IRL, too, but changes in sanitation and infant nutrition and lower immunity as a society overall caused the epidemic.
I interpreted the post I was responding to more broadly about bacteria/viruses in water. As far as I know you can in fact kill basically anything by boiling it long enough, including polio which was the microorganism mentioned in the post. You can in fact kill the bacteria by boiling the mucus droplets.
May want to recall the very high childhood mortality of premodern times.
Gonna have to hurry up with vaccination... It's not like by the time we get that clean our people won't have had the idea literally for millennia.
Sounds like a fun challenge to me
NIIIIIIICE
Some fascinating policy actions. I dig it though.
Uh.
It's not a social project (from redesigning trade) or engineering (from designing a place able to handle all that traffic)?
I just hope this doesn't turn into "purge the impure and unclean", because Purity....
