Think about LOOGIES...
You know those upchucked snot balls that you see every day and everywhere being spit from car windows onto the street and by pedestrians walking on the sidewalks and parking lots.
Ever hear of Valley Fever? It is a disease of the respiratory system and it's common symptom is the constant clearing of the lungs and windpipe via a strong cough and upchuck of a snot ball aka: loogie.
Filthy nasty infected loogies spat on the ground by persons without a clue of common civilized personal hygiene is how Valley Fever is spread. The infected snot balls dry up, get pulverized into dust and become part of the never ending clouds on every dusty desert street which in turn gets into you, me, the dogs lungs every day.
One of my wolfdogs got super sick this last winter, coughing constantly, upchucking snot balls and going down from 150 lbs to a skeleton-like 90 lbs. The vet made a positive diagnosis of Valley Fever. Her infection coincided with the streets in our neighborhood being dug up and repaved along with clouds of dust churned up from the heavy equipment. There is no cure for Valley Fever, only controlling it, with a drug called Diflucan, an expensive human treatment only available with a human doctor's prescription from a pharmacy. I decided to check the farmacia availability in Los Algodones BC. Well they had it and had it cheap. I asked the pharmacist what is it used for in Mexico he said "fiebre del valle", I asked him if it was common in Los Algodones and he said almost everyone has it!
Next trip to PP we went to another farmacia to stock up with the stuff, guess what? It's VERY common in PP as well. Well waddaya know, the snot spitters spread it ALL over ALL of the time. I was taught at an early age that spitting is BAD and to this day I won't even do it in my own back yard. Common civilized personal hygiene, part of a modern day education? Gone are the days.....
I have always carried a "snot rag" or "drive on rag" since early childhood. You never know when you gotta sneeze, cough, blow your nose, wipe sweat off your brow or even wipe your butt in an emergency.
JJ
