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If you were sent back to the roman era and could only bring a backpack of goods. What would you bring?

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Enough gold valuables to cover my funeral expenses since our bodies aren't capable of handling the bacteria in the water and food back then and we'd be dead in a week.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Literally none of the bacteria would be resistant strains.

You could just bring some penicillin instead of gold and actually survive.

[–] CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And, you know, boil the water. Or bring chlorine tablets or a water filter.

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And build up a tolerance by slowly adulterating your filtered water with unfiltered water

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Or just make a simple activated charcoal and UV filter and actually enjoy clean water