Disease infested feces of the hospitalised dying released into Californian lineups!
Everybody panic! The seas of Southern California are awash in super bugs! You’re gonna die!
In addition to the slurry of dog shit, motor oil, and hypodermic needles that regularly flood the garbage beach break lineups that litter the coast, now you can worry about the disease infested feces of the hospitalized dying.
According to the LA Times: “Researchers have tried for years to raise the alarm about hospital sewage. The sludge includes not just waste from patients suffering from drug-resistant infections but also high levels of antibiotics prescribed to treat them.
“As the sewage mixes, the antibiotics kill off weaker bacteria, leaving the more lethal ones to thrive. The bugs reproduce rapidly, and different species can swap genes, transferring their ability to withstand the drugs.”
In addition to the slurry of dog shit, motor oil, and hypodermic needles that regularly flood the garbage beach break lineups that litter the coast, now you can worry about the disease infested feces of the hospitalized dying.
Actually, maybe it’s not so bad. The article goes on to quote Timeyin Dafeta, Hyperion plant manager.
“…if CRE was present it ‘would be in extremely low concentrations’ because hospital sewage accounts for just 0.5% of the city’s wastewater. We have no indication the effluent is coming back to impact the shoreline.’”
Thank goodness! Dafeta knows best. The waste management plants are there to protect us all, why would they lie?
They wouldn’t, though they might withhold information.
Let’s hop in our internet time machine and take a trip back to 2002, when everyone learned, then seemingly forgot, that the Orange County Sanitation District withheld a study that showed the offshore sewage dump was washing back towards the coast.
“The Orange County Sanitation District report, referred to as ‘The 20 Meter Study,’ found that partially treated waste water from a controversial sewage outfall four miles off the county’s coast washes back to within 11/2 miles of Newport Beach–far closer than previously disclosed. Begun in 1996, the study was never seen by the public, although part of it was made available to regulatory agencies. Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and other coastal cities were not advised about the study’s findings.”
Oh my, hardly a confidence builder.
So what can you, an environmentally conscious BeachGrit reader do?
Not much, besides share the information on social media and hope it scares a few people out of the water. Because we’re plummeting towards a Trump presidency, and it’s only a matter of time before we’re focused on more important things.
Like hiding from the wrath of Trumpian stormtroopers and fighting for scraps of bread in the gutter that was America.