Dr. Lucky Tran 

COVID denialism and misinformation has led to Olympic athletes not even washing their hands because they wrongly think it will help them become more resistant against disease.

There is no evidence handwashing weakens your immune system. There is no evidence that adopting unsanitary practices makes your immune system stronger. But there is a lot of evidence that handwashing and other precautions protects you and others from infectious diseases, especially in risky environments like bathrooms.

Jul 30, 2024 at 5:57pmWeb
Show threadDr. Lucky Tran Jul 30, 2024
Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c51y5xy05yzo.amp
The key questions answered after Olympic triathlon postponement - BBC Sport

Will the triathlon become a duathlon? What will make the River Seine safe? BBC Sport looks at the key questions after the men's individual triathlon is postponed.

BBC Sport
Show threadLstn2urmama 🇨🇦Jul 31, 2024
@luckytran they still hope to do shortly ...😬😬😬
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Jul 30, 2024
@luckytran imagine being so proud of not washing your hands before preparing food...
Show threadAJDJul 31, 2024
@Lazarou @luckytran well.. at the end he will be the one growing worms in his guts. Hope he enjoys..
Show threadlevampyreJul 30, 2024
@luckytran 😬🤢💩
Show threadDudula the DudJul 30, 2024
@luckytran It's a USAnian saying it. Is this guy from Floriduh, by any chance?
Show threadKeithJul 30, 2024

@luckytran not uh...that can't be real.
*One search later*
No, no no no

🤢

Show threadKanaMaunaJul 30, 2024
@luckytran Some people’s life goals are to live and die like a medieval peasant.
Show threadPurpleJul 30, 2024
@KanaMauna @luckytran Only that medieval peasants did wash themselves as good as they could. Keeping yourself dirty on purpose is another level of yikes.
Show threadRobert TaylorJul 30, 2024
@luckytran Nobody has ever accused the IOC of being The Mensa Games!
Show threadDasJul 30, 2024

@luckytran wait this is a real quote!!??? Not like an @onion piece??!!! 😳

Edit: found the BBC source and quote there
https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c51y5xy05yzo

The key questions answered after Olympic triathlon postponement - BBC Sport

Will the triathlon become a duathlon? What will make the River Seine safe? BBC Sport looks at the key questions after the men's individual triathlon is postponed.

BBC Sport
Show threadFink Jul 30, 2024
@SRDas @luckytran @onion Yes, first thought was this is from the onion. Sheesh
Show threadStumpy The MuttJul 30, 2024
@luckytran Disgusting.
Show threadRadgrydJul 30, 2024
@luckytran Wtf? The world has lost its mind. I feel like COVID came with a huge amount of disinformation about diseases in general ...
Show threadJargogglesJul 30, 2024

@Radgryd @luckytran
COVID created an ideal environment for the "immune systems are magic" woo bullshit to spread like... something virulently contagious, an apt analogy escapes me...

I'm sure it's a total coincidence that the virtually unregulated, enormously profitable supplement industry likes to push "immune system boosting" remedies because it's a nonsense claim that doesn't have to be backed up by any results whatsoever.

Show threadahimsaJul 30, 2024

@luckytran
OMG, I thought this was a joke but no such luck! Yuck!

Sports Illustrated got the headline right.

Edited to add the link:
https://www.si.com/olympics/us-triathlete-seth-rider-gross-tactic-e-coli-olympics

U.S. Triathlete Seth Rider Shared Gross Tactic for Dealing With E. Coli at Olympics

This was quite the unconventional—and unhygienic—strategy.

Sports Illustrated
Show threadCraftyJul 30, 2024
@luckytran why is he bragging about literally eating shit? I'm sorry sir are you a fucking dung beetle?
Show threadCykonotJul 30, 2024
@luckytran well, he's not a mathlete...
Show threadT3Z 🎨🐱📖Jul 30, 2024
@luckytran that is disgusting. 🤢
Show threadMichael BuschJul 30, 2024
@luckytran May no one have to share a room at the Olympic dorms with this person.
Show threadPhangurl Di 🖖Jul 30, 2024
@luckytran ewwwww! 🤮🤢
Show threadGrantJul 30, 2024

@luckytran

Maybe this might persuade them to re-think?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c28e2pvzn3lo

Indian vultures: Decline of scavenger birds caused 500,000 human deaths

A new study links the vulture decline in India to deadly bacteria spread, causing about 500,000 deaths.

Show threadBenderIsGreat34Jul 30, 2024
@luckytran ladies, he’s single! And he doesn’t wash his hands after taking a shit - score!
Show threadTor Iver WilhelmsenJul 30, 2024
@luckytran Well he will learn that they don’t hand out gold medals for diarrhea.
Show threadIris VolkJul 30, 2024
@luckytran Oh. My. God. This is true. And even worse, @nytimes calls it "apparently, science- backed". Nohoooo! https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5662589/2024/07/27/seine-river-contamination-e-coli-hand-washing-triathlete/
How one U.S. Olympian is prepping for Seine’s E. coli problem: Not washing his hands

"I just try to increase my E. coli threshold by exposing myself to a bit of E. coli in your day-to-day life," he said.

The Athletic
Show thread✨buff dog himbo✨Jul 30, 2024
@luckytran lmao this is like that Hollywood trend from a year ago or something where like all these white people were boasting about showering very rarely for some reason 🤣💀
Show threadSteve RigginsJul 30, 2024
@luckytran This guy should be known as No Shake Seth
Show threadBill, organizer of stuffJul 30, 2024

@luckytran Some brave soul just added that to his Wikipedia page too:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Rider

Seth Rider - Wikipedia

Show threadDave3307Jul 30, 2024
@luckytran He said it as a joke
Show threadChiasmJul 30, 2024
@luckytran EWWWWWW.
Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷Jul 30, 2024
@luckytran I've started to recommend to people who bring up immunity debt that they gargle with citric acid and vinegar daily to train their teeth.
Show threadPterryJul 30, 2024
@luckytran can those people please wear a badge or something? So I know who I wouldn't want to shake hands with? Good grief. Well, plain old evolution will take care of the rest I think. Hopefully, they wont take that many down with them.
Show threadJillLJul 30, 2024
@Pterry They should wear a little biohazard badge.
Show threadJargogglesJul 30, 2024
@luckytran
I've been slowly building a resistance to lead and mercury and it's blen gonibgh awdggetsoggvneme.
Show threadSlavery is violenceJul 30, 2024
@luckytran Ew! This path leads to brain worms.
Show threadUrwumpeJul 30, 2024

@luckytran I would really rather flame him for not understanding properly, that any E Coli in the water is an indication for feces and everything that comes with it.

Trying to get more used to a E Coli family living inside humans is of course another insanity. 🤣

Show threadSamhain NightJul 30, 2024
@luckytran That is disgusting!
Also, stupid, homeopathic, woo woo bullshit.
We really need to emphasize bacterial and disease spread in schools, clearly.
Show threadTheJen will not complyJul 30, 2024

@samhainnight @luckytran I dunno. We've only had germ theory for oh...approximately 200 years. But I'm sure that little twat knows better.

#sarcasm

Show threadEmi Jul 30, 2024
@luckytran you gotta be kidding… please…
Show threadmafe en españaJul 30, 2024
@luckytran The Olympics are no IQ test, aren't they?
So why are we surprised?
Show threadFenneladon PrivacyasaurusJul 30, 2024
@luckytran Ewwwww 😬
Show threadJaneraTicianoJul 30, 2024
@luckytran He's us-american, has he even ever seen a school from the inside, much less any actual news? there's enough people there who believe in "god" but don't accept science, are home-schooled to never know anything but "god's words" (=white men's doctrines) and don't hear any actual news ever. they won't understand what misinformation means, ever, they don't have any critical thinking skills.
Show threadforrestJul 30, 2024
@luckytran "i just eat a little poop once a day, no big deal."
Show threadDr. h.c.* Grober UnfugJul 30, 2024

@luckytran he's an Athlete if He wins something people will adopt it and He probably never stops because it was Part of his winning process.

Yes yes, causation, correlation and so but in my experience athletes are super esoterics and the more long distance the worse.
That will be so cool when they all stop washing hands and then someone brings their Kid's noro Virus to the contest. 😭

Show threadBeverleyJul 30, 2024

@luckytran

I intend to write to the BBC to complain about this content. Claims like those of this triathlete should not be given the credence of repetition. There are enough lunatics in this world (anti-vaccers or whatever they call themselves and other conspiracy theorists) without the BBC promulgating bullsh*t. This is not what I pay my licence fee to receive! (We pay for a 'television licence' in the UK. It's crazy. Don't ask...)

Show threadKnittingMittens (She/Her)Jul 30, 2024
@luckytran Gross! Let's normalize calling people who don't wash their hands "WEIRD"!
Show threadJuliaJul 30, 2024
@luckytran Eww. EEEEEEWWW
Show threadRichard RatheJul 30, 2024

@luckytran

This may be a case of crossed signals. There is evidence that *children* who are exposed to the outdoors, mud, farm animals, etc. benefit immunologically with less illness and fewer allergies as they grow up. My info is about 5 years old, but I haven’t seen any changes.

Similar but negative effects from overuse of strong anti-microbials when simple soaps do just fine.

Show threadRichard RatheJul 30, 2024

@luckytran

I also thought this was very odd. Only precaution for swimming in fecal water is to not get any in your eyes, nose, or mouth! 🤿

Show threadjoeynotjoeJul 30, 2024
@luckytran
When all of your brain power goes into being a triathlete, and there's nothing left for common sense.
Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Jul 30, 2024

@luckytran

Team USA triathlete denounces post-restroom handwashing, pictured here with a "shit-eating grin"

Show threadThe Lady (La Donna)Jul 30, 2024
@luckytran
😬🤢 Eeeeeewwwww!
Show thread@[email protected] has moved.Jul 31, 2024
@luckytran 🤮
Show threadkbJul 31, 2024
@luckytran Is this quote real?
Show thread🔥Cassandra🔥Jul 31, 2024

@donkeyblam

https://ottawa.place/@stephanie/112876891175286493

Stéphanie Pageau (@[email protected])

@[email protected] https://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/article/u-s-olympic-triathlete-not-washing-hands-to-prepare-for-seine-e-coli/ 🤦‍♀️

ottawa.place
Show threadkbJul 31, 2024

@Cassandra holy shit, I thought it was an actual parody for covid

wow

Show threadJ. Randall ToddJul 31, 2024
@luckytran our best but not our brightest
Show threadTessie for HarrisJul 31, 2024

@luckytran

So hard to believe! COMMON sense!