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Burning Man Right Now (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ok, this is really Woodstock. But check back in a day or two!

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reminiscent of Woodstock 99:

The number of portable toilets installed proved insufficient for the number of attendees. The toilets and showers soon became unusable and overflowing, and male guests resorted to urinating on the side of the toilets or behind vendor stalls. Excrement from the toilets flowed into the mud pits and camping areas, mixing with water from the broken pipes. Many attendees began jumping into the mud pits and water troughs to stay cool in the heat, unaware of the contamination; this led to many cases of trench mouth and trench foot. The Oneida County Health Department analyzed the free drinking water, finding it to be contaminated with E. coli and other bacteria.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

trench mouth

Good lord, that's foul.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was about to wonder if any of them read the recent tough mudder story, guess not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'll bet you a soda that there were people infected at that event who went right to the playa. The entire place is gonna be fecal-flavor biohazard gumbo until it dries out, then people will get infected from the dessicated viruses rehydrating in their lungs years from now.

woohoo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mmmmmmmm biohazard gumbo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

anything's nearly edible with tabasco sauce....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't understand how people can see that multiple times stuff like this happens at these massive festivals, yet they still pay a ton to go to them.