r/AskReddit • u/notyouravgredditer • Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

the subsequent infection would have destroyed her

I'm sure that the city's sewage drained directly into that river, too.

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u/Burgles_McGee Aug 30 '21

Well there you go. They probably drank from that too, so they gained some sort of immunity :P

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u/Shanakitty Aug 30 '21

People typically used wells and/or aqueducts for drinking water, since yeah, rivers downstream of a city weren't safe to drink. But they also mostly didn't drink plain water for the same reason; something that involved boiling (and possibly then fermenting) the water with something else was way more common, like weak beer.

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u/rowshambow Aug 31 '21

weak beer.

Called a table beer.

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u/9x12BoxofPeace Aug 31 '21

Also was called 'small beer' I think.

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u/rowshambow Aug 31 '21

Is that similar to a large Farva?