Quote: (02-02-2015 08:08 AM)Dr. Howard Wrote:
Quote: (02-02-2015 06:29 AM)H1N1 Wrote:
Quote: (02-01-2015 10:30 PM)Dr. Howard Wrote:
Quote: (01-31-2015 10:18 PM)rpg Wrote:
It would be a real bitch in the winter. Ive spent time in other countries during winter with no heat and it sucks. After a while you cant even think straight.
stuff like this^ Living 'off the land' or 'off the grid' isn't fun in my opinion. Winter, shitty rainy weather all suck. The first time you get sick while by yourself in the wilderness is fucking horrible. You still have to do all of your 'chores' with 1/8th the energy, while shitting yourself. Injuring yourself also blows pretty hard too, but I'd rather have a sprained ankle than the flu in an icy december rain in the woods.
Not trying to argue or change your mind, but people carry diseases/illness. If you aren't exposed to people, you don't get sick. Certainly not advocating being a hermit as a good way of life because it'll stop you getting colds.
Its never been people that have gotten me sick in the woods its been intestinal parasites because a beaver or a duck shit in creek I was drawing water from. Other's I've worked with have contracted Lyme's disease from Ticks or blastomycosis from woodland fungal colonies http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kenora-cot...-1.537971.
This image that nature is pristine and non threatening is a 'noble savage' kind of argument.
I understand the point, but good practices, eg drawing water from its source, not at a point where an animal can shit/die in it, can go a long way to mitigating these risks. Of course, it's not like nature can be sanitised, but reducing your own carelessness can go a long way to minimising the risks of harm (again, if you walk through long grass in tic season in shorts and a Tshirt, then say nature is wild and lethal when you get lyme's disease, you really only have yourself to blame). Again, not specifically targeting this response 'at' you, as it were, but my own experience and training has shown me enough to be confident that the risks from nature can be largely mitigated through good practises.
None of the above is to suggest I don't welcome modern medicine, and the ability to get some penicillin when the need arises.