How it's going - eviltoast
  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Yeah see shit like this is why I raise a brow in suspicion at the claim that Florida doesn’t have crazier people it’s crazy people are just better publicized.

    You cannot deny that there is genuinely a unique sort of crazy that gets afoot specifically in the conditions that florida as an eco system promotes.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafe
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      5 months ago

      I am pretty sure that poor public health education plays a part. I think many of us underestimate the raw value of “common sense” knowledge like “don’t eat random wild animals,” or “salmonella is a thing,” because we have never lived without it.

      We don’t often consider it, but someone has to communicate these health facts to people, and in a low-income state like this where the government actively scoffs at the idea of caring for its constituents, that probably just doesn’t happen as much as it should.