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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7165037" data-attributes="member: 15700">It's actually extremely plausible.  Lice typically don't move from animal to human.  They are almost always human to human.  Out in the woods?  I'm not sharing pillows or furniture with other people, so....  And fleas are naturally repelled by cedar.  Which I happen to be surrounded by out in the woods.  And again, I'm not in close proximity with other things that have fleas, like sleeping with a animals or having swarms of rats and mice crawl over everything I own because they are not only not afraid of people in the city, they depend on those people.There's a reason why infestations are almost always in populated areas.  I'll also note that cities are more likely to have a ton of feces everywhere, which propagates disease.  And I'm not even talking about rat and other animal droppings all over the place.  I'm talking about humans.  You should look up why platform shoes were a necessity in 16th century London.I also think you have a very romanticized version of what city life was like in the middle ages that isn't really based on reality at all.  I would take the woods now over a modern city, let alone one with two inches of feces and animal entrails over everything.  Seriously, you should really read some of the court documents from the renaissance in London.  I recall one where a guy sued his neighbor because his sewage was literally pouring into his home.  The ruling?  The offender had 30 days to fix it.  Meanwhile, 30 days of sewage kept going into the other guy's home.  And butchers just dumped the waste out in the middle of the street.  Such things were not all that uncommon.  Just getting to that "nice" inn meant you had to navigate a gauntlet of filth and disease. Pretty much everyone else in this thread has pointed out how your assumptions are mistaken, and two of us have plenty of experience as bushcrafters/woodsman, but you seem dead set in entrenching yourself in inaccurate assumptions.  I suppose I can't change that, but I hope you'd at least re-evaluate your position when presented with new information.</blockquote>

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