re: Could you survive on a show like Naked & Afraid for 21 days?

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I have learned something over the years. The less you flail around, the less insects mess with you. I used to paint houses, and painted over wasps for shits and giggles many times. If you sit still in the middle of the swamp, mosquitoes will leave you alone after a couple of minutes

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First, you don't have malaria caring Anopheles mosquitoes in Louisiana so unless you've encountered the Anopheles, or any other African insect, you have no point of reference. You don't even feel them bite you and you don't realize you have Malaria until your fever shoots through the roof, something rips your guts through your arse and esophagus, and you thankfully pass out.

Last year I had a co-worker come down with cerebral malaria. It put him in a coma in 15 minutes and he stayed in a coma for 6 months. When he woke up he didn't know who he was, who his family was, how to walk, how to talk, and will live the rest of his life dealing with pain in every joint of his body, head to toe. He can't stand up for more than 15 minutes at a time.

Then we have another popular bug here, the Rove Beetle, aka Creechi Bug, aka Acid bug. If you squash one while on your skin, it releases a very strong acid that is no friend to your skin. Imagine one of those crawling on you beans and franks then getting smashed.

No. I'm not into bugs crawling around my anus for 21 days.

I don't get how they wipe their arse without toilet paper for 22 days.

What about the women and their periods? I think that would be a bad idea.