I have a bath once a week. Occasionally I have been known to miss a week. hears people recoil in horror Everyone in my family does this and has always done this. In my entire life, nobody ever had a problem with this. Not one person.
That is, until I started talking to people online, especially Americans.
Okay, having multiple baths a week isn’t too strange. There have been times when I’ve done this. Some people have a shower everyday, which quite frankly I think is a bit extreme, but okay. But when people shower multiple times a day, quite frankly I think you are mentally ill. You are showing signs of OCD. If you’re not a coal miner, surgeon, sewer worker or some other job like that, then there’s just no excuse or reason for such behaviour.
Throughout human history large number of cultures have coped with NEVER having baths. Their civilisations didn’t collapse in waves of pestilence and stinkiness.
Since the late Victorian age, humans discovered germ theory and that never cleaning is a pretty bad idea.
So what do I do? I have a bath roughly once a week. Occasionally I have an extra bath if I need one. Occasionally I skip a week. I change my clothes. I wash my hands after I go to the toilet for any reason. Okay, I don’t pee on my hands so that may be pointless, but I do it anyway. I also wash my hands before I handle food.
So, what does my constantly being caked in an average of three whole days worth of filth do to my health!?!?
2010 Right now I have a cough. Apart from that, I haven’t been ill all year.
2009 I wasn’t ill at all. Not once.
2008 I think I had two colds.
2007 I think I had one cold.
Beyond that I don’t remember very well. But on average I have one or two colds a year.
In 2002 I caught a stomach bug. I haven’t thrown up since.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this isn’t the health record of someone being ravaged by filth and disease.