Your screen name made me remeber something that happened today. I was getting in my mandated swimming a mile this afternoon.
There was a skinny blind man at the pool with a girl who was also blind. He was teaching her how to swim in the pool, and count the laps and find the stairs etc.
Right as they finished and were getting ready to get out of the pool he coughed up a bunch of phlegm and spit it out onto the side of the pool where the suction takes it to the filtration system.
It made me want to vomit, and I really wanted to ask him if he had been traveling outside the country or around any one from Africa. The chlorine is pretty strong, so I am hoping that whatever he has was killed between the filter and the chlorine.
A lady was complaining about it, and said he had done it 15 times before I even came out and got in. So I figured, I was already exposed, and did my swim. Next time I go, I am going to complain to the management, but it unsupervised lap swim with no lifeguards, so he’d likely still do it anyway.
They pee in the pool too. essentially clean their orifices as well..that is what the hellish chlorine is for..
Chlorine kills Ebola virus.
Chlorine does not kill cryptosporidium. That can cause nasty diarrhea.
You have reminded me of why I hardly ever swim. I used to love going to pools as a child. The knowledge of too many microbiology classes inhibits me now.
That’s awful. I would also be worried if he had come from somewhere where TB is a problem. A normal healthy person should not have that much phlegm to cough up.
Mrs. AV
You definitely need to talk to management right now. Call them. Don’t wait until the next time you swim. I’d have immediately had a come to Jesus meeting with Mr. Phlegm. Granted, people pee in the pool and you’re swimming around gulping water that has swished around everyone else’s buttocks, but he doesn’t need to add to the ick.