Public Rectal Temp

The image below is from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. It's the Oakland Municipal Auditorium which was turned into a make-shift hospital. Imagine being a patient in a ward with people of all ages and sexes and having no privacy. Many of the victims of the Spanish flu were young people so it must have been traumatic to have to expose their bottoms where anyone nearby could see. Rectal temps were much more common back then.

https://twt-thumbs.washtimes.com/media/image/2020/03/28/virus_federalism_42938_s878x679.jpg?beb6789006f054eae6eb4cc69bcf13979c7540da

The times were probably entirely different then. I doubt that modesty was an issue, and if your friends were also having their temp. taken in public, you

may not give it a second thought. If someone is suffering and in agony, exposing their bottom is probably the least of their concerns. I can't imagine the level of medical care in 1918. In 2020, they still can't stop a virus.

@JJM said

. . . . I can't imagine the level of medical care in 1918. In 2020, they still can't stop a virus.

Viruses are sneaky little devils until you can unlock and implement what it takes to kill them or make antibodies.

Viruses, especially ones formed by recombinant DNA are one of the things that will cause a vast majority animals to become extinct. Viruses can also infect plants and that can destroy the food supply from the base of the food chain on up.

I guess the [not so] intelligent designer has realized humans weren't such a great idea or well thought out creation, but for now is stuck with them. In 2004 the designer killed off 250,000 people in ten minutes with a tsunami, but there is a long way to go in order to get rid of the infestation.

WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

It's like the grand designer is a cosmic trickster.

It's like a kid with an ant farm, and it pours water in there to see if any of the ants can survive.

Our lives are supposed to be as hard as possible, because the untouchable, hiding designer enjoys it when we suffer.

@sundaybrunch said

It's like the grand designer is a cosmic trickster.

It's like a kid with an ant farm, and it pours water in there to see if any of the ants can survive.

Our lives are supposed to be as hard as possible, because the untouchable, hiding designer enjoys it when we suffer.

These boys have BIG ant farms and filled them with hundreds or thousands of pounds of molten aluminum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xvsxarw-J0 big

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jHGQRvAts very big

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w9xVpsGt0c GIGANTIC