Good Lord man, I am being rational and honest, you are posting absurdities to be argumentative and to support an absurd claim.
You think walking barefoot through the yard and chicken mess to get to the outhouse at night and coming back and crawling into bed with your brother is more hygienic than a modern bathroom?
You think a difficult to clean large metal and wood ice chest that you put a block of ice into and replace as it melts into water, and interior temperatures fluctuate between between 45 and 80 degrees is more hygienic than a modern refrigerator?
You think a 100 year old kitchen with it’s plain wooden floors and rough surfaces was easier to clean than a modern kitchen today with instant hot water and especially designed durable, easily cleaned surfaces?
Most people would agree that we are MORE obsessed with hygiene and sterility today, than people were a 100 years ago, in fact, many of us worry about the obsession with it.
Didn't y'all have shoes? Or your own bed?
You think a difficult to clean large metal and wood ice chest that you put a block of ice into and replace as it melts into water, and interior temperatures fluctuate between between 45 and 80 degrees is more hygienic than a modern refrigerator?
No, but people were fastidious about cleaning it or they'd get sick or it would stink. Not so with the new ones.
Most people would agree that we are MORE obsessed with hygiene and sterility today, than people were a 100 years ago, in fact, many of us worry about the obsession with it.
As I said, YMMV. Look around you, outside of your personal envelope where I am sure everything is shiny and sparkling and well perfumed if appropriate and in its place, and see the rest of the world. People are clueless about hygiene, there's trash everywhere, crud in the corners, and the floors are sticky.
My grandmother would never have had her house that way, wood floors and all--not rough, but waxed to a shine and God help the fool who tracked dirt in.
>> “especially designed durable, easily cleaned surfaces?” <<
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That are perfect bacteria farms? - Unlike most woods, that naturally resist bacteria and most mold?
Try Jeremiah 17:5-8 for some reality.
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