can you get fungi toes from the pool?

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Today heard someone telling another in the elevator that he got fungi toenails from (he said he's sure) the swimming pool facility. Does that happen a lot?
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    Laxity in swim pool staff. In the pool I swam in as a kid they used to have a lifeguard that checked the feet, they were not allowed in the pool if they had any thing wrong. If they did not have a complete shower, not allowed to enter the pool. That's the problem nowadays. The rules are posted. No Shower, No swim..... Bla Bla Bla........ and nobody enforces any of them. A couple of years ago I had to report to the staff a man swimming with numerous open, oozing, sores on his back. They said they couldn't risk offending him by seeming to target him (Political Correctness gone way too far) because he was of a certain ethnic group. I got out (I know I should have also sent a missive to the City, but I understood where the lifeguards were afraid of.)
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  • Former Member
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    Laxity in swim pool staff. In the pool I swam in as a kid they used to have a lifeguard that checked the feet, they were not allowed in the pool if they had any thing wrong. If they did not have a complete shower, not allowed to enter the pool. That's the problem nowadays. The rules are posted. No Shower, No swim..... Bla Bla Bla........ and nobody enforces any of them. A couple of years ago I had to report to the staff a man swimming with numerous open, oozing, sores on his back. They said they couldn't risk offending him by seeming to target him (Political Correctness gone way too far) because he was of a certain ethnic group. I got out (I know I should have also sent a missive to the City, but I understood where the lifeguards were afraid of.)
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