How Safe is Goleta Beach?

Response to Luvaduck 7/14 7:38 am.: Or are picking up meds they take for years for blood pressure or thyroid or antidepressants? Not much more infected than the rest of the retail world! If I'm that sick I get my Rx delivered or picked up by someone else. Yes, sometimes there's no choice but to go to pharmacy sick. Hope you get flu and regular vaccines, even as an adult.

"The ocean is always fish poop soup" So? That's not a pathogen. https://www.livescience.com/55189-how-much-of-ocean-is-whale-pee.html

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Why do people blatantly lie outright? Ginger1 has no statistics for the number of people who get sick from touching a shopping cart, and no scientific study comparing that to those who get sick from swimming at beaches with high bacteria counts. As for "a few little bugs", we aren't talking about insects, the size isn't relevant, and "a few" means a handful, whereas the counts are vastly higher than that. Every time you ever see her make a claim in the future, remember this about her.

GINGER1: I liked your reply up until: "One more thing: statistically, you are FAR more likely to get sick from contact with a shopping cart handle that a few hundred people touched than you are from even those 5 beaches with a few little bugs. Sorry if the science gets in the way of perceptions" Almost every time i see someone grab a shopping cart, they use one of those provided anti-bacterial wipes on the handle. So probably at worst, ten people have used it before you since it was wiped. ALSO.... the thing with going into the ocean is... you don't just touch the sea water with your hands. When you swim, it goes in your mouth, your eyes, your nose, your other... well, i think you get the idea. Much different from touching a handle somewhere. But i DO fairly believe in the testing that our officials do to determine the safety of our waters.

That is not a truth at all. Not if you believe in science. 15 beaches are tested for coliform and enterococcus bacteria. 9 beaches had virtually no detectable levels, 5 tested within accepted state and federal standards (perhaps not YOUR standards) and one, Goleta, failed. Goleta is tested at three locations. One site met the criteria to close it. Don't know why they chose "warning". I agree that the press release was premature. One batch of "acceptable" results without that being repeated is not good science. Meanwhile, it smells like crap down there. Might tell you something. One more thing: statistically, you are FAR more likely to get sick from contact with a shopping cart handle that a few hundred people touched than you are from even those 5 beaches with a few little bugs. Sorry if the science gets in the way of perceptions.