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Now the government is looking at your poop......

2,860 785 February 5, 2022 at 08:04 AM
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Jokester713713
02-05-2022 at 11:34 AM.
02-05-2022 at 11:34 AM.
They actually have been studying sewage for awhile, and monitoring superbugs caused by overuse of antibiotics and antibacterial soap chemicals.
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SnakePlisken
02-05-2022 at 01:23 PM.
02-05-2022 at 01:23 PM.
Proof that working for the gov't is a shitty job.
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ScorpionRage
02-06-2022 at 08:15 AM.
02-06-2022 at 08:15 AM.
I hope they see with their eyes and not with their hands. Yuk
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handyguy
02-06-2022 at 05:05 PM.
02-06-2022 at 05:05 PM.
We're drinking it. Filtered of course.
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02-06-2022 at 05:48 PM.
02-06-2022 at 05:48 PM.
Wow. Great thread to read while eating dinner. laugh out loud
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ProfessorChaos
02-06-2022 at 07:31 PM.
02-06-2022 at 07:31 PM.
There was an interesting study in Nature about novel variants found in NYC wastewater. They opined rats might be cryptic hosts, and looked for rat, mouse, dog, and cat ribosomal RNA to correlate with it.
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Frogstar
02-07-2022 at 08:18 AM.
02-07-2022 at 08:18 AM.
Guess it must be time to start keeping it in jars or buckets, OP!
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savingdad
02-08-2022 at 02:57 AM.
02-08-2022 at 02:57 AM.
Quote from ProfessorChaos :
There was an interesting study in Nature about novel variants found in NYC wastewater. They opined rats might be cryptic hosts, and looked for rat, mouse, dog, and cat ribosomal RNA to correlate with it.
They should probably leave that s--t alone.
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