Tetanus is endemic in the environment. A lot of people think they can only get it if they step on a rusty nail that was embedded in the dirt, but any puncture wound can give you the disease - even light scratches if your luck is bad and your immunity happens to be low for whatever reason.
It's not a disease to fuck around with. You don't want to get sick with it.
As for the flu, this year's flu season was particularly awful, something like 30,000 t0 60,000 deaths. You don't want to play around with flu either. Flu and pertussis and diphtheria, you can pass those diseases on to people on the bus or at the supermarket, without being in very close contact with them.
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Date: 2019-06-16 10:05 am (UTC)From:It's not a disease to fuck around with. You don't want to get sick with it.
As for the flu, this year's flu season was particularly awful, something like 30,000 t0 60,000 deaths. You don't want to play around with flu either. Flu and pertussis and diphtheria, you can pass those diseases on to people on the bus or at the supermarket, without being in very close contact with them.