Zappers, a pretty new invention really...

I'm realizing people *had* to live with the parasites outside the digestive tract, before zappers. Anything strong enough to kill those outside ones would be strong enough to harm the person infested with them too.

So really all the fiddle fussing methodology from our culture and ever other culture was in fact about managing the parasites they couldn't get rid of. Sure, they did all they could to impede them, and limit their growth, and before all the toxins we're steeped in today they probably were able to, mostly.

They probably could do it to the point that the parasites weren't a very big problem, but it took all that fiddle fussing around to do it, is my guess. I personally don't do any of that, but that's because I don't need to. I don't need to manage the parasites, I've killed them. I bet any of the ancient cultures would have given their right arm for something like a zapper. Tweet