It’s Come to This… EPA Now Says Building Sandcastles Is Hazardous to Your Health
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12:32 PM
A new EPA study says that building sandcastles is hazardous to your health.
The White House Dossier reported, via FOX Nation:
A new study performed by the EPA has determined that playing in the sand at the beach can make you sick.
In an article titled “Digging in Beach Sand Linked to Increased Risk of Gastrointestinal Illness,” the EPA cites a intensive study performed by EPA researchers and other scientists which found that your risk of getting sick might increase after playing in the sand.
People take certain precautions when they go to the beach. They apply sunscreen to avoid sunburn and stay away from big waves if they are not strong swimmers. But they do not usually worry about getting sick from digging or playing in the sand.
Unfortunately, beach sand could harbor even more harmful bacteria than nearby bathing waters. EPA researchers and their counterparts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins University observed a positive relationship between sand exposure and gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses as a function of fecal microbial pollution in beach sand.
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Txn4Evr commented:
The only thing that makes people sick is Obama and his Marxist, Islamo government.
Mona commented:
sand castles – nice metaphor for Obama’s Marxist utopia. sometimes I think these articles are from The Onion, but then, sadly, I realize they’re for real. God help us.
Xavier commented:
Feces in the beach sand. Its part of the Obama plan to destroy our precious waterfront property. Then he comes for our guns…
Dwayne the canoe guy commented:
Wow, not washing your hands leads to a higher risk of getting sick? I think that was news back in the 1880′s.
StrangernFiction commented:
OT
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/rick-santorum-defends-earmark-spending-against-mitt-romneys-attacks/
Yes Willard, it is pretty damn clear that you are a complete fraud.
#1AMERICAN commented:
hey odumb$hit why don’t you go pound sand where the sun don’t shine…you POS mooslime
dwd commented:
Don’t eat sand, and wash your hands before you eat. Problem solved.
Geoff commented:
Recently, the county board of Los Angeles County passed an ordinance that will impose a $1000 fine for the tossing of frisbees, footballs, and the like on all beaches within the county. There are two notable exemptions to the law, one given to the movie industry and the other exempting the use of a soccer ball. I don’t have a handy link, but it can easily be searched. I saw it last week reported on the local LA CBS affiliate website.
The user comments are both hilarious but all so true. The fines do nothing but criminalize a very common everyday activity for no other purpose but to keep money flowing into the pockets of county employees, both active and retired. If safety and prevention of injury were the real issues, then soccer balls would not have been exempted. This exemption clearly panders to the immigrant Latino community, legal and illegal alike, and discriminates against both white and black beach goers who prefer frisbees and footballs.
BTW, the law also criminalizes kids digging holes in the sand with a $1000 fine per hole.
Stuart commented:
WOW! Sand castles make you sick. Guess what? Life is inevitably fatal. 100% of those who post on this website will die! 100% of those who DON’T post on this website will die.
The solution?! Don’t get born in the first place. Thats what Obama’s contraception mandate is all about. How could I have been so blind? Obama was right all along.
Gandalf commented:
Oh by the way best to not ride the subway or other public transportation – bad germs there. So why does the federal government have any say in sand castles? First folks to get fired next year – EPA – the whole damn administration. Then HHS, Energy, etc. Hire more military. Get back to what the Constitution authorizes.
nano commented:
Geez did somebody dig up Howard Hughes with his fears of all things in germ land?
DINORightMarie commented:
A great reason to seize all beach property – to protect the little people that go there, of course. It’s all about our HEALTH and SAFETY; such benevolence!!
Then, once they have all coast land in government hands, the beaches are SUDDENLY pronounced “clean” – and the government charges people to go on them. The goal is 100% of property – ALL OF IT! – to belong to the government…real estate AND your salary. Because, you see, 100% tax takes ALL YOUR SALARY, basically declaring everyone a slave to the state.
It’s about control: no liberty, no property, no rights – unless the government says so.
Nelle commented:
If we don’t vote Obama out, building some sand castles on the beach and dying may be one of our more attractive options.
wanumba commented:
#8 February 14, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Geoff commented:
BTW, the law also criminalizes kids digging holes in the sand with a $1000 fine per hole
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Of course … so the soccer players won’t step in them and sprain their ankles.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Here in California, I believe it. Many of the beaches here suck; there’s all kinds of flotsam all over, not to mention seaweed washed up that gives off a bit of a smell, and the sand has a grayish tinge to it.
The best beaches I ever saw in my travels were the beaches of NSW in Australia. Golden-colored sand, the water was fairly clear, and little of the junk of the kind that washes up regularly on California shores.
Getting back to this EPA report, now that they’ve told us all this, what do they plan to do about it? I’m willing to bet they’ve got some sort of regulation in mind, because they’re not just going to tell us that something is bad and leave it at that.
Sasja commented:
Don’t play football or throw a frisbee at the beach, and for goodness’ sake, don’t build any nasty sandcastles. We libs hate for anyone to enjoy their life since we hate ours.
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The food nazis, thanks to Mooshill, are on the march and are headed your way.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/02/14/federal_agents_inspect_your_child_s_lunch
Alvin commented:
Again, just like CO2 and temperature, coorelation not causation. The nanny state rises again.
wanumba commented:
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“Unfortunately, beach sand could harbor…”
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Ah,yes, the “could” speculation.
I wonder where we got that old saying, “sunlight is the best disinfection” … and that would be in addition to “salt water.”
When they run this stuff past lawyers, something’s fishy.
BuddyG commented:
IT’S GONNA BE SAND!!!!
Mitch_Cali_Sux commented:
Studies are nothing but advocacy for control over others. Rarely do we see who wrote whatever study comes down the pike. Most are written by a select few, on the Govt dole. Our Govt is the enemy of freedom and common sense.
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