People across Ontario are no doubt soaking up the sun this summer and taking advantage of the heat.
This also means many residents are hitting the pool and taking a dip in the lake. But unfortunately for one woman, going for a swim left her with numerous infections in her eye.
On Sunday, TikTok user @lillypadgirl33 shared that she received a bacterial infection in her “eye, eyeball and eyeball muscles” after allegedly taking a swim at Wasaga Beach in Simcoe County, Ontario.
She humorously stitched her video to another TikTok of a woman who was swimming in Nice, France where the water was a gorgeous shade of light blue.
This is a grim contrast to the state of Lake Ontario, which many people in the comments were quick to point out.
“You never swim in wasaga …it’s brown water for a reason. I’m sorry you went through that,” one TikTok user wrote.
“Noooo not the toilet bowl water,” another user said.
One user even claims she got pink eye after swimming in Wasaga Beach recently.
Another joked that the only water they swim in is their bathtub.
However, others said they’ve swam in the river many times and have never gotten sick, some even thanking their built up immunity.
The viral video comes after three Toronto beaches (Cherry Beach, Sunnyside Beach and Centre Island Beach) were deemed unsafe for swimming thanks to high E.coli levels on Sunday.
On Saturday, half of the city’s 10 beaches were lablled off limits due to E.coli, including Ward’s Island Beach, Marie Curtis Park East Beach, and Kew Balmy Beach.
The city is known to take beach water samples, and if E.coli levels exceed the established beach water quality standard of 100 E.coli per 100 ml of water, it’s too high-risk for the public.
