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Why is it today that everyone is absolutely obsessed with sanitation even during outdoor activities or rural living? It seems like every single urbanite asshole who has never spent more than a few days at a time away from WiFi, not to mention the government itself, is constantly spouting off about the way that humans have lived for thousands of years. Constantly telling people that you shouldn't drink stream water because you'll get E. coli, don't bathe in a spring or rainwater because you'll get an infection, don't eat food that hasn't been constantly frozen or refrigerated up until the split second you decided to cook it. It's insane, these people act as if everyone prior to the 1940s was getting food poisoning or dying from a plague every other day.
I grew up on a farm in Bumfuck, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula, and I spent plenty of time drinking from clear creeks, bathing in ponds and lakes, preserving meat at room temperature, etc. and I can't recall ever getting even the slightest bit sick from it. The infuriating part about this attitude towards natural lifestyles you get from people who have never tried it is just how hypocritical it is. Many municipal water supplies in the United States are borderline third-world tier, and grocery stores are constantly issuing recalls on food because their meat and produce gets covered in literal shit after it's been processed. I realize that there's always a risk for some type of illness whenever you're dealing with untreated and unprocessed food and water, but if you aren't a total retard, I would say the risk for getting sick is the same if not lower than drinking city water or eating at Chipotle.
So what's the reason for this new attitude? Is it the result of decades of government fear-mongering to get everyone dependent on their teat? Is it because of the increasing urbanization of the population and a consequent lack of familiarity with nature? Why does everyone have insane risk-mitigation behavior these days?
