The Hot Tub of DEATH

[@nichollle]

this is funny because i was just certified as a pool and spa operator. this is a real and very serious issue that can arise from simple complacency or negligence. if the water isn't treated properly, you can have all kinds of health issues including legionnaires disease from breathing in infected water droplets.

[@HeavyHeart]

I got this crazy disease! was the worst two months of my life! shut down my immune system filled one of my lungs! I was almost dead! I don't wish it on anybody. all better now! Great Video

[@hollyinhell]

I'm so glad you're better! Sounds like an absolute nightmare.

[@emonighteverything4827]

Do you have any family members who seem to have anything simular to what you described?

[@HeavyHeart]

@@emonighteverything4827 no body else in my house got it! the health department said that they had 7 positive test that summer in my county but could never find the actual cause! they tried saying it could have been bad bong water!

[@emonighteverything4827]

@@HeavyHeart How many cases has that department seen where it was caused by bong water to assume it was the cause of your cases?

[@HeavyHeart]

@@emonighteverything4827 they couldnt say exactly where it came from and the other cases and i never crossed paths so who knows!

[@Nyarlathothep]

Your videos are the perfect balance of creepy and relaxing. Just like a hot tub full of deadly bacteria.

[@viktormedina4631]

Very well put, creepy and relaxing. @Morbid Midnight has this rare talent indeed.

[@ACE53621]

😂

[@sforza209]

Yea for sure! He reminds me of this other channel on KZbin. They actually sound a lot alike. But I’m too lazy to go through my subs to figure out the name of that other channel. I can easily fall asleep to this type of content. Just relaxed creepy talking. lol. No bullshit loud and obnoxious add ons or additional clips added to the video.

[@nathalieeex3]

Well we have a hot tub and I must admit I have not checked it in about a month or so. Maybe we’ll give her a good drain and cleaning today just out of caution lol great video

[@nichollle]

yes please clean it and make sure your chlorine and/or bromine is at the correct levels to kill any disease

[@davidtwliew616]

Ha ha ha at least drain the tub regularly and clean it.

[@nscott2590]

The doctors and that nurse especially deserve a lot of credit. The nurse should get a huge raise. A lot of articles credit investigators for discovering the source which honestly makes me mad.

[@Blatsen]

When I was growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, there would occasionally be filled hot tubs on display at stores like this one at Lowes. I haven’t seen that since the 1990s and now I know why. I hadn’t heard of this case and didn’t realize that legionnaire’s disease could be spread through improperly treated hot tubs.

[@confusedDruid]

I remember splashing around filled hot tubs at the pool store while shopping to pick up chemicals when I was little and that had to be mid to late 2000's

[@MsNooneinparticular]

Yup. It's spread through shower mist and A/C vents too. There's a much less deadly variant called "Pontiac fever" too.

[@rilmar2137]

Hell yeah I now want to bathe in radioactive hot springs

[@redwingrob1036]

YES Radon gas. RADON gas & granite rock formations go together. IT has been a problem in England's West country, but nowadays there are radon gas detectors. I've not heard anything recent. OR get yourself a canary; a super sensitive gas detector, & it's 'battery' lasts for 7-8 years!

[@PaulRudd1941]

​@Thea Green word, a fellow BC resident!

[@Tuberuser187]

@@redwingrob1036 Radon is a real thing but I'm sure the fuss was lobbying, companies got the Government to offer grants and subsidies to fit homes with all kinds of wall sealant, detectors and ventilation system. Yeah Radon exists, breathing it in long term does come with risks, especially for Children as the gas is heavier than air but you don't see the same kind of fuss there was that for that five or so year period.

[@MsNooneinparticular]

Watch the Hisashi Ouchi video on here. (Yes, I know he was an extreme case but you do NOT want radiation poisoning or any of its countless complications). Much radiation we're exposed to is not avoidable so you should avoid it where you can.

[@sarahcoleman3598]

My boyfriends best friend in when they were in their early 20s were in my bfs grandparents hot tub. His friend has a cut in his hand at the time causing it to become infected and nearly had to have his hand amputated. From this, he became severely addicted to pain pills, went to jail for drugs and robbery to feed his drug habit. All from one night on a hot tub. The good news is that he is clean now and married and living a happy normal life.

[@andrew5354]

Nice. This video and the American Dad documentary on killer hot tubs, have convinced me they are way more dangerous than people realize.

[@tommymommy3478]

I use a hot tub in my house about once every other day. Probably have used it over 3 thousand times, never had anything like this happen.

[@johnkorth8599]

I came here specifically to reference American Dad

[@mountainmamma1643]

*lauded*

[@mommy2libras]

Yeah, they are basically a human bacteria soup pot.

[@tommymommy3478]

@@mommy2libras should I be worried ?

[@jbaker7311]

This also calls to mind drowning deaths in hot tubs due to accidents, etc. Hundreds of children die in pool and hot tub drownings each year. There was the case of a 10 year old girl whose hair got tangled in a filter and drowned. It's also vitally important that pools and hot tubs be thoroughly cleaned and chlorinated and filters changed on a regular basis.

[@XxGigiBeexX]

Thank you for explaining the history of hot tubs, it gives the viewer a better understanding of the context and topic. You have to be very cautious when working with any sort of pool/spas, as even something that has the potential to be overlooked could become a very serious problem.

[@LaffeeTaffeeGG]

Whoooaaaaa one of my favorite things to do as a kid at the home improvement stores was to go straight over to the pool section and watch the hot tubs. I never even noticed how stores stopped having hot tubs on display like that. It's crazy to learn that it was because of airborne illnesses.

[@deirdrejones5974]

I got an ad for a local hot tub business. Really, it’s too funny not to mention.

[@dla_915]

“Health benefits of these springs have been lauded by locals for centuries” = Locals need their tourist money.

[@infinityentity]

Lauded* not loted :)

[@SudrianTales]

Local to other city guy: it's either this or depend on the state government. Other city guy: Understood

[@mustertherohirrim7315]

​@@infinityentity yep...

[@d.w.stratton4078]

Look up Radiation Hormesis. Small amounts of radiation exposure may actually be beneficial for health. Source: I'm literally a radiation physicist and the Linear No-Threshold model of radiation risk has been increasingly questioned over the years. Also, I have a relative who was in the Manhattan project on the physics side of the house and said that naval dock workers who had repeat small exposures to radioactive material did not show an increase of leukemias above baseline that would be expected if the exposure was deleterious.

[@_5_675]

​@@d.w.stratton4078 I don't come here to be informed I am here to be horrified and scared.

[@KellJell]

We live in an area where we have to monitor the level of radon in our house. It's very old and has a partial dirt cellar. So in some seasons the levels are higher, but still not high enough to pose health risks. We just want to make sure it stays that way 😁

[@c.w.8200]

Yeah, I live close to a region with granite bedrock and the danger of Radon collecting in the cellar is very high. My dad told me a story about a patient of his, somehow they weren't aware of the risks or thought if they turn the cellar into a hobby room with floor boards and all the Radon won't seep in and his wife put her treadmill into the cellar, she got cancer and it was traced to the heavy Radon exposure, scary stuff.

[@confusedDruid]

For some reason having a dirt cellar really threw me for a loop for a second since where I'm from theres so much rain and the ground can get wet that I heard dirt and I thought "how does your basement hold itself together when it rains?" I'm assuming you don't live in a marshy place then because otherwise your basement would be an indoor pool at best, and at worst it'll give you a reason to go house shopping How do those work exactly? What's the upkeep like? I have a concrete basement so this is an entirely new world under-home living/storage spaces and im generally curious

[@awkwardautistic]

​@@confusedDruid Many older homes were constructed with Unfinished dirt basements can be a problem though..pests, insects, mold and mildew.. because of excessive moisture. I don't like basements at all for that reason lol... they're usually gross.

[@llsher5210]

Same, the state I live in is in the top 10 in the country for radon exposure. It's pretty common to see mitigation systems in homes with basements (even with no exposed dirt), and we just passed a law where sellers and landlords are required to provide written disclosures on the risks of the property. I didn't even know it was a thing until we moved here.

[@Geronimo2Fly]

About 5 years ago my cousin's 9-month-old son died of Legionnaire's Disease that he contracted in the hospital. This is very serious stuff.

[@markwebster5749]

🩵🩵🩵

[@Timto900]

This needs to be shown to most air b&b owners. I know a lot don’t change the water. They have NO clue how to maintain the hot tub and just want to collect the profit with no care for the guests.

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

I never noticed that hot tubs are no longer displayed with water in them but I do remember that as a kid. The more you know!

[@paulchadwick77]

Excellent work mate, your content is very interesting, look forward to hitting a million subscribers soon. It won’t take long, it’s amazing you only have less than 50k but I guess it’s only temporary, good luck to you. X

[@davejones9469]

It's a really new channel, comparatively, so he's actually growing super fast. I'm glad too, I love the content. He's improved his speaking quite a bit too, he sounds much more relaxed. Some of these guys sound like the Burger King foot lettuce guy. I can't stand that lol. *His editing still needs a bit of work though.

[@jimmyzbike]

Thank you for shining some light on this. Legionaries is still in our communities today. We must all stay vigilant.

[@viktormedina4631]

@Morbid Midnight Just can't get enough of your videos. I watch them and rewatch them over and over again. And like the previous poster said, your content is the perfect combination of creepy and relaxing. Thanks again for another wonderful video.

[@grapeshot]

Well too bad it's not a time machine.

[@shaybarfield4946]

🤭

[@throbbinwoodofcoxley6830]

Maybe it is, have you spilled Chernoblé on it?

[@rutgerhauerfan]

Great, now I'm paranoid about Legionnaires disease again.

[@Ch3mG33k]

In case you're ever in need of an explanation of radioactive stuff in future projects, here's a little info on the radon. I won't comment as to whether or not the radon levels are at present safe, but radon is dangerous because of alpha decay, not gamma. This seems counterintuitive at first because alpha particles are "big" (in the atomic sense) and charged, which means they don't penetrate well and thus are actually fairly safe to be around (this is why some smoke detectors use a small americium 241 source and that's fine to have in your home). Gamma on the other hand is basically just a verrrrrrrrrry high energy wave that passes through damn near everything and can very easily collide with a DNA molecule or two and cause serious damage. The big caveat is that, because radon is a gas, it can be inhaled. And while alpha particles aren't too dangerous when they're outside the body, all the reasons that they can't penetrate become big problems when the radiation is already inside of you. So suffice it to say, it's kinda hard to argue that any amount of detectable radon is "safe" (and before some smarty pants replies to me about hormesis, the jury is still out on that).

[@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking]

A very valuable comment. Also - Radon gas inhalation is the second most common cause of lung cancer in the USA! (Mostly affecting people who own basements/cellars in radon-tainted geographic areas - which is much of the USA.) If you have any part of your home underground - you NEED to see if your region has radon - and get a detector! DO NOT BUY A HOME - without reading the radon report. You have the right to know if simple cracks in your basement's concrete are going to release odorless gas that will kill your family or not!

[@Lumina_Solaris]

​@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking That's absolutely crazy. I never would have even thought to check for that. My dad works from home, and his office is in the basement...

[@grmpEqweer]

Basements here require pumps and/or bulkhead doors. They're only for big buildings.

[@chaseman113]

Legionnaires is scary and an issue in small town & resort water supplies. Covid Quarantine had a hidden outbreak in Legionnaires detection all over the states from the sudden lack of water use in many many Resorts & vacation dwellings.

[@johnholmesinchesahead2347]

I wonder how plausible it is that no single human bathed in hot water prior to ancient Greece. The US education system sounds really enthralling.

[@donnamuller6460]

My husband and I are from Phila. and remember that well. We followed the news from Europe; we were there for the summer with our book “Europe on $10 a Day.”

[@ScottLovenberg]

I'm always afraid my whirlpool is going to electrocute me. That thing don't run on 120 volts. But it's the amperage that kills you, and it's got that too.

[@adriennefloreen]

Oh no! About ten years ago I went to a party and took a dip in a hot tub. A few days later I got a phone call from some friends who were there. They were at the hospital and the hospital had informed the health department who'd requested everyone who was in the tub go to the ER immediately. I went there and they looked at my skin for a few seconds and gave me Cipro, the antibiotic they use for anthrax. It wasn't anthrax or legionaries but some bacteria that causes a mild skin rash but can cause organ failure. This is why when I went to the hotel hell hotel I was bleaching the hot tub before getting in!

[@samsalamander8147]

I went into a hot tub once and it gave me some type of alergic reaction that made me chronically itchy it’s been years it still hasn’t gone away, I think it damaged my nerves. The chlorine was so strong it burned my eyes and dyed my bathing suit and shorts I had on. I’m pretty sure it was the chlorine and other chemicals that caused this. I immediately rinsed off at the locker room then I took a full shower at my hotel room and It was just too late the itch had already started. That was like 4-5 years ago, I went to the white Mountains in Maine to climb Mount Washington and my skin was all red like a had a rash and looked like a type of sunburn, I ended up having to slather hydrocortisone all over me and I took Benadryl, I still do. I over did it with the hydrocortisone cream and it stopped working and the itch became more intense It was like I had to detox off of the cream. I’m still itchy and It’s worse at night because I have no self control when I’m asleep I’ll scratch my skin right off and wake up with bloody fingernails. I can’t have anything sitting on my skin under my clothes like hair or lint it will drive me crazy, I have to carry around a lint roller. I have to shave my whole body it’s a nightmare! All from taking a quick dip in a hot tub! It’s like the chlorine damaged my nerves so now I feel even the slightest touch against my skin it’s like it made me ultra sensitive but not in a cool super power type way but an annoying life ruining type way. I have literally thought about just ending it all just to stop the itching when it’s been at it’s worse. The only answer I have gotten from Drs is Chronic Dermatitis. It’s like a non-diagnosis.

[@adriennefloreen]

@@samsalamander8147 Please get tested for folliculitis, demodex mites, and scabies. The folliculitis is what the health authorities had me come to the hospital for but it was a certain very dangerous bacteria not the normal one hence the cipro, since then I have gotten demodex mites and scabies and had to take ivermectin. One time was during the pandemic which caused it to be a major hassle to get and caused KZbin to remove my video promoting the use of ivermectin, for scabies. This may sound horrible but for my Telehealth visit I bought a 20 dollar microscope that connects to a phone or laptop and zoomed in on my skin to prove I had scabies so they wouldn't think I was lying and wanted it for covid. You could do this too, and figure out what is on your skin yourself and if you can't figure it out the dr will appreciate the images.

[@samsalamander8147]

@@adriennefloreen that’s a good idea actually. I lived in a shelter a long time ago and the whole house got scabies except me I used the cream anyways too much actually and it made me feel sick I didn’t listen to the instructions and kept obsessively putting it on until It made me get dizzy and throw up, but I attributed not getting it to me being obsessed with tea tree oil and I used Dr Bronners Castile with the tea tree oil, I still do. I have no rash or dryness at all so it’s hard to get them to believe me because there is nothing to look at except my scratch marks. They wanted me to try depression medication they tried to tell me it was psychosomatic and all in my head. I’m about to buy a microscope. I suspected dust mites so I covered my rug in diameticus earth or whatever it’s called and I got a new bed and all to rule out mites and I’m still itchy and I have no bites or rash. I also got a memory foam mattress and had it sealed to make sure they can’t get me if they are around at all. I have been on antibiotics many times for other things since it’s happened and it’s never helped the only thing antibiotics does is mess up my stomach and kill all my good bacteria it takes me months to be able to drink milk and eat cheese again after a round of antibiotics and I take pro-pre-postbiotics on the regular those don’t help much until after I stop taking antibiotics, it just happened to me from a sinus infection. I have come to the conclusion that the bleach killed my micro biome and I am over run with yeast or something like that. I do get frequent yeast infections and have been susceptible to them in the past in my mouth and my milk ducts while breast feeding. I also have hyperhydrosis so my skin is always a bit damp especially my hands and feet so I’m susceptible to fungus like athletes foot, ring worm and jock itch. I at first thought that’s what it was because it’s kind of a burning itch like athletes foot so I sprayed my whole body with and used antifungle creams and that didn’t work or help either.

[@Ahamkeira]

the first 4 minutes of this video felt entirely unrelated. just going over the ENITRE history of hot tubs for this feels entirely unscary and like what i'd do to pad out essays in school

[@tensaichigo2]

I knew when I saw the title I needed to see this video. Awesome content as always.

[@_KRose]

Surely, the radioactive water would kill off Legionella though

[@benisaten]

Always good man 👍 Cheers from 🇨🇦✌️

[@AdamAtlanta404]

when you need to hit that word limit on your essay so you say "fortuitous happenstance" instead of "luck"

[@Nefville]

Believe it or not understanding radiation doses is very simple. There are a few different units of measurement (usually Gy (gray) or mSv (millisievert)) and if you search for one you can find a conversion chart that will also show you the effects of the dose. From the screenshot you have it had a DCF (dose conversion factor) of 5 mSv and anything up to 10 mSv is considered safe. If its 10x that or 100 mSv then no immediate effects but increase long-term risk of cancer.

[@poutinedream5066]

I watch Plainly Difficult. So I'm kind of an expert.

[@MorbidMidnight]

The study that originally sampled the waters on the island measured the water's radioactivity in Mache units, which according to google: *One Mache unit is equivalent to 3.7 x 10-7 curie or 13,760 becquerel per milliliter.* The springs vary from 9 Mache units to 1,204 Mache units.

[@Nefville]

@@poutinedream5066 That's a good channel and they really cover that particular topic well and with accurate information so it kind of does make you an expert compared to 99.999% of people. I'm not an expert but I have done some work on blood irradiators and had to take some very basic training on the subject. I would say I know enough to _not_ be dangerous 😂

[@interruptingPreempt]

@@MorbidMidnight I'm not going to be a ton of help here, but I thought I’d relay to you what I did find. On the wikipedia page for Grays (unit), there is a table on the different sorts of units related to radioactivity. Here’s the link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Radiation_related_quantities First off, this isn’t at all my specialty so please take it with a grain of salt, but it looks to me that the units you were finding your answers in measure the rate of decay of the material, as opposed to the radioactivity absorbed by the material’s surroundings (I would have looked for grays myself and apparently had no luck). It _could_ be that since Radon is a fairly unique element, being both gaseous and radioactive, that its properties are considered more meaningful when measured as becquerels, and the like. But again, I’m not at all certain. Regardless, thank you for trying to find answers and for admitting when they were not forthcoming. (I think the confusion meme phasing in gave me one of the better scares I’ve had in a while.😆)

[@1dayatAtimeking]

Nice. Love your vids

[@shaybarfield4946]

Was so glad when I found this channel.

[@shanereynolds4276]

Me too brah

[@LeiCal69]

Using the display hot tub in a Lowe's? with or without Legionnaire shit's nasty as hell.

[@maxstueven1965]

Well Radon is typically an issue when it is breathed into the lungs over long period of time. Also, water is an excellent absorber of radiation, which is why it's used to cool nuclear recmactors.

[@ashleerhodes3445]

I’m a bit late to the game but I asked my mom about radon (she dealt with radon remediation). She said that 4 picocuries per Liter is the level at which remediation should occur. When I said that one would assume thermal pools/hot springs would have more than that and that soaking in it would not be good, she said “Absolutely not good”.

[@averydalton1222]

Great voice over!

[@LotsofLisa]

Don’t they still have those hot tub exhibitions at those convention center type events? Just like we bought our camper at a camper exhibition at the city convention center. It was full of thousands of campers, just like the hot tub events. It’s so unfortunate, how the most important lessons are learned after people lose their lives, whether by pure coincidence or negligence.

[@enraptured6700]

Wow, my parents never let me go in a hot tub as a kid, and now I know why.

[@mrsdoyle6828]

Can't believe the history intro didn't mention the real tubs. The wooden barrels which could just sit two people - best hot tub I've ever experienced.

[@jessica_R_9167]

Used one like that on a camping trip, had a water tight wood stove submerged in it to heat the water

[@meaningoftheunicorn]

fascinating and unique topic.

[@LuckySpinster.]

'Hot Tub of Death' . If there's no B grade movie out there with this title, I'll be greatly disappointed

[@LindysEpiphany]

My only ad was for hot tubs! A bit ironic I would say.🤔

[@rey273]

who the FUCK would want to get into a hot tub at lowes in front of EVERYONE tho?????

[@crystalvickers78]

My husband and I caught Legionnaires pneumonia from a hot tub at a rental cabin in Gatlinburg, TN. We were in ICU for a week. This stuff is no joke.

[@BunnyQueen97]

Legionnaire’s Disease is named that because the first outbreak was at an American Legion convention? Why is that so interesting to me?

[@Vinlyguyx420x]

Hey I’m right there with you on not understanding radiation calculations lol! I’m a construction plumber and we install these things called “Radon Vents” which are literally just a pipe going directly into the ground / mini pit to collect radon so it can vented to the roof of the structure. It’s my understanding that humans are exposed to a shit ton of radon due to naturally occurring radioactive decay in the soil.

[@Electriceye1984bySam]

Another great interesting video, thank you😉👌🏻👍🏻

[@hollyinhell]

I have a soft tub, it's pretty cool, but I will never go into a hot tub that I where I don't personally control the water. I have always been weird about that kind of thing.

[@johannsebastianelli9222]

Did you know at the time in local news my parents told me the theory was at first it was a prostitute since they where their at the convention and symptoms mimicked hyper gonnorhea ?! It was really scary at the time so many people so sick.

[@awkwardautistic]

I didn't realize Lowes has been around that long lol

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Who tf puts hot tubs on display with water in them? "Here's a pool full of safety violations. Leave your kids and go shopping" 😳

[@porcus123]

For it to breed legionella it would have to been working too, the past was a weird time.

[@BloodStainedTear]

Never seen it in a store showroom but have seen them at fairs filled and running

[@throbbinwoodofcoxley6830]

@@porcus123 not exactly. It would just have to be warm and stagnant.

[@LotsofLisa]

The hot tubs I ever recall running at stores were covered with some kind of clear, hard plastic covering. But that was to avoid kids, leaning in, falling in and drowning.

[@mauricedavis2160]

Common sense, bless you!!!🙏👌🦉❣️

[@trig33kgirl]

Hot tubs always gave me the heebie jeebies. Now even more so.

[@migmigjohnson6083]

Fun fact: not all hot tubs are bad. Some are actual time machines.

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

the form of radiation from Radon is actually argued by many to be therapeutic rather than harmful, (given that with the frequency of radiation [high Gamma] it is not really absorbed by most things in your body) even in high concentrations, Radon is not strong enough to cause damage through pure energy alone... if anything, slightly warming the insides, similar to intense sunlight but without some of the more harmful UV rays... Radon nano-bubble pools are still used as a form of spa treatment in many hot springs from the Mediterranean to the Orient

[@dumbcat]

you should do one about pedicure places permanently injuring people due to bacteria in their foot baths. don't think any died but people have been permanently disfigured. it's really sad

[@societyreborn33]

Fun fact: A lot of people can catch Legionnaires from putting water in the Window sprayer on their windshield wipers. always use a proper window cleaner liquid not water for this reason 👍

[@angelnocharlie]

Im Cornish and Cornwall is full of Radon from the granite. Interestly the Cornish have developed some immunity to it. Im writing this in the dark from my own glow 🙃

[@wellfedstarvingartist]

Probably shouldn't share this but I knew a woman that told me she as a 9-10 year old girl, would go visit her dad on weekends, who owned a hotel. She would spend extended time on the hot tubs because she was told it would fry her ovaries and prevent her from getting a kid later in life. I think wanting to not have a kid, is natural. But wanting to not have the ability to have a kid at that age...

[@the_phaistos_disk_solution]

Karahan Tepe, the 11.5 thousand year old civilization being excavated in present day Turkey was a 50 foot hot tub fed by a natural hot spring, and fed numerous ancient "water attractions" in a manner of speaking arranged around it. Another of my discoveries found by clicking my logo and then following the banner links.

[@alexandraleian212]

My man said i came across scary equation, so radon bad 😭😭😂😂😂😂 I feel you bro

[@juliadagnall5816]

Fun fact: those Roman baths were very likely foul. They didn’t have drains so there wasn’t really any effective way to get rid of the dirty water and give them a good cleaning. Some writers of the time even warned people to stay away from the public baths if they wanted to stay healthy.

[@BrettonFerguson]

Radon does not produce heat. Some other radioactive elements produce heat as they decay, but not all and not Radon. So the heat in the hot springs would be 100% from geothermal and not from the radiation.

[@rsobe]

That's why you should use chlorine in the hot Tub and pools

[@shaybarfield4946]

Oh shit! That's no good. I wouldn't wanna risk it. Seems every damn unique and natural technology we find, that are REALLY awesome and help improve the life of humans in some way......have caused horrible cancers and other ailments, somewhere down the line.

[@adderann]

Fun fact, I went to a hot tub about 30 minutes from Christiansburg last Wednesday

[@PFBM86]

How were they exposed to the bacteria in the store? Could they have become ill just by standing near the tub or would they have had to put their hand in the water or something?

[@itsallspent]

Thanks for this video as I was ignorant of the real cause. I believed it was from an airconditioner that had standing water.

[@ACE53621]

You're not wrong, it was. The bacteria was in the cooling tower of the air conditioner, and it spread through the whole ventilation system. I saw a documentary a long time ago about it, and it did mention actual standing water in the conditioners, which just made it worse. He said "water tower" in this video, but it was actually the air conditioner cooling tower.

[@itsallspent]

@@ACE53621 thanks. I had a close encounter with it. On a security detail half of the men were put into an old building the rest were in other accommodations. The men in the building got sick.

[@valkyrie1066]

Well, I lucked out in the 70's. Lots of private hot tubs. Didn't end up in bacterial soup. Do/don't the chemicals knock that out? Or, perhaps, in display tubs, they DON'T use chemicals, thus causing the bacterial growth? How many days does it take to turn to "spoiled soup?"

[@Itried20takennames]

The chemicals and maintenance should stop most Legionella, but my guess is that because the tubs were just for “display” that inexperienced staff may have thought there was little need to keep up with testing and treatment regimen. I certainly don’t know for sure.

[@EgoKillerPodcast]

I’ll just get in for a few mins.

[@Vampcamp993]

I literally just watch the shipwreck with the fine china

[@shashie2158]

That's why a lot of apartment communities filled in their hot tubs. Too much nastiness! I dated an apartment manager, and they told me to never, ever get in an apartment hot tub. Eww.

[@kimmuckenfuss2284]

Thanks for the informative video. I don't know why, but for some reason I thought the cause of Legionnaires disease in the northeastern US was from the Legionnaire bacteria being in an air conditioning system. I guess my memory is wrong.

[@MorbidMidnight]

Air conditioners are one of the most common spreaders of Legionella bacteria, so you are correct. There was actually an outbreak in Michigan just a couple weeks after the one in this video that killed 4 and sickened 26 people that was spread in a very similar fashion to the Bellevue-Stratford hotel, that largely overshadowed this incident in the news cycle.

[@kimmuckenfuss2284]

@@MorbidMidnight that's probably the incident I was thinking of because it was definitely a long time ago. Thanks for confirming that.

[@PrimevalDemon]

That's horrible! They literally did nothing wrong but think of slight self indulgence :[ I never knew display ever had water!

[@jekanyika]

I'm a bit confused. Were display hot tubs tested by customers before this happened? Did they need to bring a towel with them?

[@Slappap]

Well now I know why all those cozy comforting running displays stopped. As a child I loved that stuff I wanted to jump in.

[@chucheeness7817]

What I got from this video is that _Radon_ didn't do any known _fatalities_

[@Sugarglidergirl101]

Ofuro literally translates to bath. Not just onsen baths, but your bath at home as well.

[@LarryPeteet]

Didn't warn the public? Were they supposed to put a big sign saying "Do not come near our public display"?

[@katemaloney4296]

I liked how you admitted that you weren't going to spout off about something you didn't know, so you were just going to tell us what you did know: Gamma ray bad.

[@LilyKittyCatto]

quite a title lmao

[@nickolespears]

The fact that a hot tub as popped up 😮😮😮😂😂

[@attention_shopping]

wow, incredible story

[@SpinningSidekick]

Wow, what a coincidence: The Jacuzzi Brothers just happened to go into an industry that bore their name. HOW FORTUITOUS!

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

1:32 What does it mean? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!!? AAAHHHH! AHHH MY BRAIN, MY BRAIN ITS MELTING, AAAAAAAAAARGH!

[@bigdoink420]

Bro said "what if I was funny for a video?"

[@CorinnaAtHome]

The idea that a lowes manager in 2023 would know *any* of that information is laughable.

[@redwingrob1036]

MOST interesting! LOVE the infectious disease angle. I worked as a nurse in an ID unit, & I cannot recall ever having a legionella patient, but this was in the early Noughties. OTHER deaths related to baths & hot water: you mentioned the Roman baths of Bath (AQVAE SVLIS) in Somerset England 🇬🇧. The public could swim in the baths, during my lifetime, but I'm not sure about now. No, swimming is not allowed, but a KZbinr, & Extinction Rebellion climate cult fanatics have swum in the water & survived! And there was a case of a swimmer, a girl, picking up a waterbourne infection in this case meningitis, in the mid 1970s. She died. From then on, swimming was not allowed. BUT was it a girl or a young woman; the precise age wasn't mentioned. And this is typical of the paranoid, litigious fear ridden era we live in; as meningitis is more a disease of the young. The only cases I've known & been involved in the treatment of, were young people, & you can be vaccinated against it. SO why not allow older adults to swim in it ie over 30s? THERE are no written reports of mysterious deaths of Roman Britons dying after bathing either. THE Bath (the Somerset 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 one) Connection again: this was reported in the British media, & the BJN (The British Journal of Nursing) on their examples of malpractice page. The first page I turned to LOL. A male patient who had undergone cancer treatment & had had radiotherapy/chemotherapy at the local hospital ( Royal United Hospital) was being discharged. He took a shower in his hospital room beforehand, subsequently he died of an infection. I can't remember exactly what type of infection, whether bacterial, viral, etc, but it was traced to the water system at the hospital. The hospital was taken to task for this, & I can't remember if there were any legal consequences. THOSE who don't know, there are certain cancer treatments that can weaken a person's immune system & make them more vulnerable to infection. FINALLY, I went to school in this lovely ancient city, & I've had my meningitis & pneumonia vaccinations, so maybe I should go for a dip!

[@poutinedream5066]

I had meningitis in my 20s. And E coli when I was 19. Both times I almost died. Both times I expected a big investigation. Both times they were like "🤷🏽‍♀️ meh- it happens."

[@jusme2038]

I got an ad for hot tubs in this videos

[@mulder2400]

12,000 people a year die falling down stairs.

[@ImmortalTreknique]

For the algorithm 👊

[@nickie7874]

We have a local store call Spa and Pool(?) something like that and they have 5 or 6 tubs in there running. We bought a pool one time but never got sick from.messing with the tubs! However ... I have been on a cruise ship with thousands of people in and out of them all day ... hmm!

[@mrfake675]

Not buying a hottub

[@jonfoulkes3160]

Lawsuit? Nah, they obviously wouldn't have known the implications 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@laceybarbee5553]

I hate how the "watch on TV" button is so close to the closed captioning button. Now I interrupted my mom's TV show. Thanks smart TV and inappropriately placed buttons

[@Yousawnothing01]

Hulk origin story, it came from the hot springs!

[@alunchurcher7060]

Radon gives out: Alpha radiation, beta radiation, and gamma radiation are emitted out under the radioactive decay chain of radon.