Yes

My favored classification is "subspecies" for such situations, including African humans

IMO Sub-saharan Africans are human but a distinct sub-species from all the rest

Clearly we can interbreed so not a fully separate species

But modern humans seem to have originated in the Middle East, and everyone outside of Africa shares a few % Neanderthal DNA that Africans don't have

I checked their latest annual report

Chicken is only about 1/3 of their sales, with roughly equal cash volumes in Beef & Prepared Foods (eg frozen microwave-ready wings) plus a smaller sliver in Pork

So it's possible some of those more convenient or premium products are the ones they are seeing issues in

However I do agree with your overall sentiment

haha

I have a guess as to the ethnicity of the waiter

I agree.

Personally I have come to a "compromise" view of germ theory, in which ordinary germ theory is clearly wrong (ie pathogens are not generally sufficient to cause disease in healthy hosts, as many experiments show including Koch's own cholera work)

but I am inclined to believe pathogen exposure can cause/increase problems in a host which has become diseased by other mechanisms (as shown by the h. pylori ulcer experiment, although it did lack a proper control)

But viruses in particular I regard with special skepticism due to the poor methods of "isolation" (or lack thereof) and other procedures within the field of virology

haha

duck is delicious though

Hydration

As to why distilled, I mentioned this earlier in the thread.

Water in my area is fluoridated & I am also concerned about other contaminants (eg plastics, pharma)

https://mises.org/mises-daily/revolution-was

The quotation I gave is about "low mineral water", not "natural mineral water"

Has your mate ever seen a case of an individual suffering from some illness related to mineral deficiency related to drinking distilled water?

I am aware that some sources advise against drinking distilled water, but I am hoping for more solid evidence than mere opinion.

Can you point to a case where someone suffered some form of illness after consuming pure water?

I see some speculation it may be harmful, and one citation to a 1988 study (not available online). In terms of what is available online, it seems to me the evidence points the other way:

"Blood electrolytes balance was not significantly modified even with prolonged treatments with low mineral waters."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10138893/

I don't believe that's necessary.

Mineral water contains a tiny fraction of daily needs of the relevant minerals.

Instead I'll eat 1 extra bite of steak

Yeah, I drink about a gallon of water daily

It's fluoridated where I live (and I am wary of other contaminants, eg plastics / pharma) so I distill it

I am hopeful that in the event of total collapse I can either distill via non-electric heating (my equipment allows this) or to get by for a while on boiled/chlorinated/untreated lake-water

What do you think is wrong with the water quality?

I've developed some skepticism of germ theory

(eg Koch drank a culture of pure cholera bacteria and didn't develop cholera)

Do you think there's some sort of toxin?

Or bacterial contamination?

Parasites?

And they weren't harvesting rainwater, they were collecting city water to use at their leisure

I'm not sure what could possibly motivate such a scheme, most likely bureaucratic incompetence, but perhaps the city lacked their own water storage

Twitter.com becomes openly censorious (even more than it already is)

But that's not something I want

Northern Peru, coastal desert

In terms of "rough" Northern Mexico definitely felt less safe than anywhere I went in Peru

I've been to a couple countries in Latin America

The infrastructure was less built out than USA, the cars & consumer goods were not what people in USA would consider the most cutting edge

There was concern that the tap water was not safe to drink, and bottled water was preferred. In one town that I stayed for a time, everyone had water barrels on their roofs as the municipal water would be shut off at a certain of day.

Otherwise I would say that life seemed quite ordinary

Yep. And then the few who are into it all want to use different apps

Indeed.

Encrypted comms are the way to go but I have difficulty selling my friends & family on them.

you can still buy a "dumb" phone

if I needed a cell phone for comms I would probably get a dumb phone