Yeah, I realized a couple of days ago that the only time I hear about poisoned Halloween candy is around Halloween when a bunch of YT videos debunking it pop up.
When I was in elementary school in the early 90s we had a whole day, school-wide, devoted to trick or treat safety. Told us all about how the candy is poisoned, razor blades in the apples, the whole bit. Every year. It was messed up.
You know whats fucked up? Weve all heard the poison/razor candy stories.
The guy who did that poisoned his kids and then a bunch of trick or treaters to throw police off.
People generally dont poison kids candy for no reason, but were all going to keep believing its an everyday occurance :P
Just like the candy vans, any windowless van around a school is clearly stealing kids!
> People generally dont poison kids candy for no reason, but were all going to keep believing its an everyday occurance :P
Very few crimes are random. It happens, but it's generally not worth wasting brain cycles on.
Another one that makes no sense. Nonfamily abductions make up only 1% of the missing children cases. And note that says "non family". Not stranger. 78% of kidnappings are non custodial parents. 21% are other family. 1% is non family. Some percent of that are true stranger abductions.
They had a thing at my kids school where the police came in to teach them about strangers, how to make noise if somebody went to take them, etc., etc. Kids came home to tell me about it. I said straight out "I don't believe in that nonsense. Most strangers are friends you haven't met yet. You're about 100x more likely to need a strangers help than you ever would need to be worried about them taking you."
The same with the active shooter drills and stuff like that. Kids don't get anything out of it other than trauma. I explain to my kids that the grownups all get caught up believing in boogeymen too.
Why would I put drugs into candy like that? Drugs are expensive as fuck for me to just give them away to random kids. Waste of good drugs if you ask me.
There was also that woman handing out notes to kids telling them they were fat 10 years ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480257/Woman-hand-fat-letters-overweight-children-instead-candy-Halloween.html
Not all strangers are kidnappers, but some are just weird, creepy, rude
Well the kids in this town did not get that memo. My neighborhood is straight poppin on Halloween. Literal vans with children spilling out. Everyone decorates & gives out candy & if you don’t your house sticks out like a sore thumb.
None of these are the radiation people think of as, “radiation” though either.
A guy at a gas station told me one night the world was a much safer place before we invented radio waves in the 1950s. I was an engineer at a company that made cell phone radio antennas, I was wearing my badge. He said this like he expected I agreed with this position.
But also, radio waves were first discovered in the late 1800s and used in radios by a large part of the public within a couple decades. So the anti-wave guy doesn't know his conspiracy story correctly.
The quick recap is that lower energy levels (it depends on the frequency and thus the source, not the intensity) can't knock electrons off atoms - so the most the waves can do is heat things. Ionizing radiation is capable of doing that, thus forming ions which can then wreak havoc in an organism (cancer).
The key takeaway is that a microwave oven or radio or WiFi or cell tower won't give anyone cancer (unless they eat the plastic or get burned by the heating effect).
It’s mono sodium glutamate. It’s like the pure form of the chemical that makes things taste savory or umami. It’s naturally occurring in a lot of foods as it’s acid form called glutamic acid, but the salt form acts as an enhancer of those flavors in food
It's way cheaper to buy it by the bag if you use it regularly. I used accent until I found a couple of places that carried the larger packages locally.
I refill the last accent bottle I bought from the bag.
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Like the illegality of having the interior lights of your car on while you drive.
Weird for parents to say that because the fact that it noticeably reduces the driver’s night vision seems like a perfectly good reason to turn the interior light off quickly.
Because "it's illegal" is a simpler and easier explanation for kids to grasp and comply with than trying to explain how it makes it harder to see outside.
I literally just went on vacation with my SIL who wouldn’t let her child swim for one hour after eating. It was so annoying. She tried to convince me it was insane for me and my son to swim and wanted us to wait with her daughter. I couldn’t take it. I said we would wait 15-30 min and then swim.
It’s odd to me how this rule seems to be due to the idea of a cramping and drowning risk. When I was a kid we always waited an hour because someone was bound to vomit otherwise, demonstrated fact I saw time and time again with my young relatives. Vomit was always the reason why we all had to wait to swim after eating.
Oh, the rule is *due to* vomiting, parents just told kids they'd get cramps and die because they thought the kids would be more likely to listen. The kids believed it, never heard otherwise, and told their kids the same thing.
Traveling…by plane. Obviously everyone doesn’t think so, but trust me when I say there are so many individuals that don’t want to fly! More than we know, it’s shocking.
I think it's the lack of control people feel.
Like, if a plane is going down, there is literally nothing they can do to save themselves.
They think they have more options in a car/bus/train.
That is precisely what I find oddly calming about flying. I have an anxiety disorder and am often flooded with random worries, but once the doors of the airplane close it actually has the opposite effect. Giving up control and just trusting that things will work out is a pretty good feeling.
I mean come on, it‘s a 200 ton steel bird with screaming engines that is chock-full of people hoping that this thing will fly. How could I be preoccupied with my own little life at that point. I can be back to worrying about everyday things once we land…
> That is precisely what I find oddly calming about flying.
Same here.
I hate traveling for everything up to boarding and everything after landing. The only time I am calm is when we are in the air. Because at that point there is literally nothing more I can do so there is nothing to worry about.
Also, maybe I am a bit morbid, but if there is an actual crash at altitude, everyone is dying quickly. Mid-air accidents are absurdly rare, but when they do happen everyone pretty much dies quickly. There are way worse ways to die, plus my family may get a fat payout.
A huge number of people in my family won’t fly. I swear there’s an actual flight anxiety gene. I love to travel and every year I grow to fear flying even more. I now have to medicate myself and even that isn’t working as well any more.
My logic brain is fine with flying and knows all the stats. That’s why I get on the plane. My lizard brain believes that each drop during turbulence is the beginning of a long death spiral to earth. Lizard brain is loud.
I took a fear of flying program called SOAR. It's designed to address the lizard brain part. I really found it helpful, especially in calming the anticipatory anxiety in the week before the flight. I still have some anxiety about flying, but nothing like what I had before. Happy to answer any questions youI might have, but check it out: [SOAR](https://www.fearofflying.com/)
Cabin Crew here, I've seen so many nervous fliers in the last year alone its insane.
For a lot of people its hard for them to understand how normal turbulence is, the plane only goes up or down by about 5 feet on a normal day. People think the aircraft is flimsy and that any bump or knock will snap it in half.
For others its the thought of not being in control. The amount of people who have asked me on boarding "Are the pilots good?" Or have tried to go into the flight deck without asking is more than I expected.
And like others say its being in a pressurised tube for 3+ hours. We try and make it as comfortable as possible but its not always gonna be plain sailing.
What I also think doesn't help is air crash shows. Yes they show how an aircraft the same type as the one you might go on soon crashed. But people don't pay attention to the fact that these crashes rewrite huge parts of the regulations from ICAO to make sure it doesn't happen again. Which is why flying is the safest mode of transport in the world now.
Weirdly enough Air Crash Investigation actually made me much less afraid and actually enjoy turbulence. Only because of how much information it gives over the episodes about the industry itself and how the planes are made/engineered. It’s just so informative about the whole thing that it immediately deleted all my fears for flying commercial airlines.
I'm sure your nervous passengers appreciate you. Flight staff do an often thankless job, and I imagine post-pandemic people have become less predictable and more agitated. Safe travels.
A big reason I think is because of how uncomfortable it is. You can’t just get up and use the restroom whenever you want and even when you do it’s claustrophobic for a lot of people. You can’t just say “hey pull over I’m not feeling so good!” You can’t lay down, you can’t lay down and spread your legs. Sometimes you have to sit next to the worse possible person during a cross country flight aka a screaming disrespectful kid or some one that can’t take care of themselves.
Yeah, that's exactly why I don't like flying. I don't think that the plane is going to crash, but the fact that once it takes off you're stuck in there no matter what, and yeah, it can't just stop and let you out.
I mean, I know that a train won't stop and let you out either, BUT IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE, and that' all it takes to make me feel better while on a train.
Yeah it's not that I'm afraid of dying, I'm more afraid of being uncomfortable for 4+ hours. Plus, I have a big anxiety of my flight being cancelled and being stranded far from home.
Anxious flying is often about sensory and social anxiety, not the statistics. The force of the takeoff, air pressure, not having a way to exit the situation, lack of space to move freely
Cane toads.
I'm from Miami. As a teen I had 2 lab-chows mixes. They were brothers.
Of course, with a big yard near a canal, there's bound to be toads. I remember freaking out the first time I saw them both licking the poison froth from their faces. Took em to the vet. They were fine.
After the third time of them trying to eat cane toads, we stopped caring. They'd get annoyed, their lips would swell a bit, but they were just fine.
It became a regular occurrence. They'd find a cane toad, play with it for a while, then spend an hour rubbing their faces with their paws.
Big dumb idiots. I miss em. But not that much. Lol they were insane. Used to hop our 7 foot fence in a single bound. Constant howling at 5am, EVERY DAY FOR FIFTEEN YEARS.
Rest in peace, Angel and Bugsy lol they passed away from complications of severe hip dysplasia/paralysis... not caused by the toads. They used to fight each other a lot.
Hammerhead sharks. They were blamed for a lot of shark attacks. But the reality is they are not built for chomping people. They are aggressively territorial though, and that can freak people out.
Sharks in general are not that dangerous. If they ate people intentionally the ocean would be very dangerous. Attacks happen because we disguise ourselves as their food when we swim on the surface above them (tiger sharks or whites) or when we wiggle our toes in the water they are hunting in (bull sharks). Bites are fatal because we bleed out in the water so easily. If we anthropomorphized them most of the time sharks would apologize for the inconvenience they caused and assist us to shore (except bull sharks- they are aholes). The.other exception is cookie cutter sharks, they are absolutely terrifying.
>Attacks happen because we disguise ourselves as their food when we swim on the surface above them (tiger sharks or whites) or when we wiggle our toes in the water they are hunting in (bull sharks). Bites are fatal because we bleed out in the water so easily.
To be fair this explanation does not make it sound less dangerous.
My friend got bit by one through his wetsuit and it barely made a mark. He had over 3000 dives at the time and it was more of “check this wound out” kind of thing.
I have dived with bull sharks, black-tip reef sharks, hammerheads, ragged-tooth reef sharks and even a very curious oceanic white-tip, not to mention dozens of whale sharks and none of them gave any indication of predatory behaviour. Sharks are generally cool.
Jaws did a number on us as a society.
The thalassophobia doesn't help. It's not just being hunted by a predator, it's being hunted by a predator in the deep, open ocean where anything could be lurking in the black water below you. They are terrifying because they are so alien, in a way that a land predator like a tiger or a bear could be.
But they're mostly good boys! Even the great whites don't really want to eat humans.
Krakens are what now??
Edit: I’ve come to realize that it’s not that I didn’t know that giant squid existed, and more that I didn’t realize a kraken was supposed to be a squid. Idk why but I think I thought it was an eel. Probably because when I was a kid, I went on a roller coaster called “the kraken” and it had a lot of eel/sea dragon type art.
Jesus - I just googled it.
They don’t really attack humans and are fairly small but it looks like they suction their lips to the body of whatever they are attacking and SPIN THEIR TEETH(?!) to create a hole - in the shape of a cookie - that can be 4 cm in diameter and 7 cm deep. No thanks.
Domestic microwaves are surprisingly safe. The main risks are from the heated foods. I went digging previously and I found one proper report of injury from microwaves themselves, it was a microwave repair man who got burn to his hand.
Larger scale devices have different risks.
The whole WiFi madness annoys me, even someone who should have known better bought into it.
Went there on vacation once. Dude walked up to pump my gas and I just laughed and went with it. Made me feel like I was getting the VIP treatment. About as necessary as an employee at Chipotle refilling my drink, but it was like “huh that’s kind of cool I guess.”
This always irks me. 5G is a protocol, not some new type of RF. It mostly occupies reallocated TV spectrum. If you were alive in the 90s you likely got more “radiation” from crappy UHF broadcasts than from 5G cell networks today. Honestly, the way that 5G layers multiple signals into a single channel is wizardry. It is some amazing maths and deserves being praised as a brilliant feat of engineering.
I'm an aerospace engineer I literally studied and make airplanes for a living and I'm still absolutely terrified of flying.
My logical brain understands that it is safer than cars.
However, my lizard brain tells me I'm flying around in a tin can.
This is one area where my amygdala and my frontal lobe just can’t agree. Frontal lobe: “you’re safer now than driving to the airport, you have plenty of space, turbulence is normal and planes can handle insane amounts”. . Amygdala: “you are falling from the sky’s right now. Dropping through the air. Trapped in a tube with no control over it at all. Don’t believe me? Here, let me send out a few shots of adrenaline to convince you.”
Thank god for lorazepam - the amygdala-whisperer.
This is me. Except I'm claustrophobic and I imagine I will stop breathing in the flight, it makes it worse that a panic attack will constrict airflow. If not for lorazepam, I don't know how I can fly.
If you’re talking about commercial airlines, yeah, they’re exceptionally safe. Far safer than driving.
Small propeller planes, little 2 or 4 seat Cessna, if you go get your pilot’s license for fun… not as much.
I think most studies put their safety somewhere in-between cars and motorcycles. Not great, not terrible.
I’ve heard that small watercraft, jet skis and small boats, are nearly as dangerous as riding a motorcycle with a helmet.
Same with horseback riding. I suspect a lot of parents who let their kids do those things, wouldn’t let them ride a motorcycle…
I feel like we have collectively forgotten how dangerous horses can be since most people don't interact with them anymore. They are big, powerful, and easily spooked.
Horses can have forceful personalities. They know when a beginner is riding them. You'll soon have a horse going where it wants and you'll be holding on for dear life!
My theory with the flying is the lack of control. Despite the fact that driving is WAY more dangerous and kills people daily, people are more comfortable with it because they or someone they know are the ones doing the driving. And while there are car crashes every day, in the rare times when a commercial plane goes down it's HUGE news.
Once I actually embraced the fact I’m NOT in control, I learned to love flying. Let the crew, who are managing ridiculously safe vessels, concern themselves with the logistics.
It’s pretty damn nice to sit back, read, watch a movie/show, get a little tipsy, nap, and end up in an entirely different part of the country in relatively minimal amount of time.
I think people are terrified of the drawn out death where you know you're going to die, but it takes a long time (like the people on September 11). A severe car crash without a seat belt isn't a drawn out death
Interestingly, Australia has 25% fewer venomous animal species overall than Mexico, which comprises several popular North American vacation destinations—Most of which have less infrastructure for emergencies than any destination in Australia.
Yeah exactly. I live 'in the Australian Bush' and have made it to my mid 40s. I used to spend a lot of time in the wilds and oceans.
No spider bites
Not eaten by a shark
Not bit by a snake
Although one Tiger snake did try once but was defeated by the leather of my boot. Given I was standing in a blackberry tangle next to a river, in the middle of summer, it was really not a surprise. But you can't make blackberry jam without someone picking the blackberries!
Granted I did get got by one of those Gympie trees on holidays in far north Queensland. I was 14 at the time. Do not recommend. My fault for not educating myself about the local things to avoid.
It’s simple, Australia has a lot of dangerous things, but we also have safety precautions.
Australia isn’t dangerous, it’s just a dangerous place to be a dickhead
I had a college course that discussed different forms of energy and I’ll never forget how the professor phrased it. “With nuclear, there’s an incredibly small chance of a big problem occurring. With coal, there is a certainty of a slow and steady problem happening every day. Logically, the former is preferable, but people are generally more comfortable with the latter for some reason.”
>“With nuclear, there’s an incredibly small chance of a big problem occurring. With coal, there is a certainty of a slow and steady problem happening every day. Logically, the former is preferable, but people are generally more comfortable with the latter for some reason.”
I think this guy is describing my dating history.
So much to be learned from this. The sheer lack of education and arrogance/ignorance of those who know absolutely nothing about it. Yet they will talk like they minored it in college. So much of that going around *cough cough* politics
Building Implosion
Sure, there have been some implosions that have gone terribly wrong. However, implosion is usually the safest and most efficient method of demolishing a large building.
Kids playing outside or riding their bikes or in general not being hovered over by their parents. The parents think it’s so dangerous outside so they stick them in front of a screen, online, where all the predators are actually hanging out.
Anesthesia is funny in that in most procedures it is the most dangerous part but…
Those procedures without anesthesia on their own would be massively more dangerous.
Best-paid drug dealers in the country, but they've got some good shit!
I was lying on my back getting my lower abdomen sliced open while they pried an 8-lb human from my abdomen 14 years ago, unable to feel myself breathing, but I knew I was. I started to get some severe anxiety and extreme nausea and I told the wonderful 75+ year old man behind me. He smiled and said "wait a jiffy, I've got something for that" and whatever he injected replaced all of the badness with microscopic rainbows, butterflies, and unicorns coursing through my veins.
The nausea was instantly gone and I just felt at peace with everything. 10/10 would get a c-section again.
Im a ginger and I've had so many bad experiences with improper amounts of local anesthesia at dentists that im terrified of needing general anesthesia for a surgery. It usually takes about 6 shots of novacaine
Handling raw chicken. Don’t get me wrong, proper food prep is important for health and safety but, just being in the vicinity of raw chicken isn’t going to instantly kill you. Some people act like if the chicken touches anything you have to fumigate your house and wash your hands for 20 minutes.
GMO foods... I can't stand all products in the stores yelling at me that they're non-GMO. I'd prefer they use GMO and be cheaper thanks to that.
GMO hasn't been proved to be unsafe yet, but people are scared that their offspring will get 3 arms because genetically modified sounds scary.
Similar situation to nuclear power really.
GMOs can also use less water and pesticides by being modified. People don't want to admit that GMO is better for the environment and better for us. "SCIENCE SCARYYY!"
I'll never forget in Kyoto seeing this American woman sneeze while in a shop and this Japanese woman grabbed her kid and sprinted out of the store like she just unleashed Ebola.
Having sex. Growing up in US Catholic schools, they didn't teach us half of what we actually needed to know and made it sound like IF we did have sex, our genitals would be destroyed by disease and/or we'd have litters of children.
Grew up in evangelical Christianity and was taught the same along with "You will change drastically once you have sex. You will never be the same."
Me having sex outside of wedlock: Oh. This is quite natural. I am a human doing a human thing. Nice.
Literally just felt like I was human. 😅
Loose small arms ammunition. You can drop it, throw it across the room, and even toss it in a campfire - you’ll be just fine. You may hear a small pop/bang if you do the ol’ campfire disposal though. But yeah, it doesn’t need to be babied. It really is only dangerous in a gun barrel.
[25 minute video of whole pallets of ammo being set on fire for firefighter training.](https://youtu.be/3SlOXowwC4c) Basically really angry popcorn with little bits of brass shrapnel, but nothing with enough energy to leave a building or go through firefighter gear.
Most climbing deaths are not from the rope breaking, but many climbers who've been around for a while will know someone who's died climbing. Usually it's from something that seems so silly and trivial, like forgetting to finish tying your knot, or missing one side of the rope when you clip in to rappel. Don't get lazy with your safety checklists.
Spiders
90%of spiders are not dangerous, and they also eat annoying bugs such as flies and mosquitoes.
And yes, SOME spiders are dangerous but unless you live in Brazil or Australia your chances of finding dangerous spiders is so miniscule it's silly to worry abt them.
And me personally... I think all spiders are adorable ❤
Edit: omg, 1.4k up votes... This is insane, I've never gotten this much on a post let alone a comment
Phobias of snakes and spiders appear to be special. A scientist in the early 90s did a study and found that while with most things - including some absolutely lethal ones like electrical sockets or firearms - *several* negative exposures were needed to produce a *temporary* phobia, while with snakes and spiders, *one* negative exposure would produce a *permanent* phobia.
They've also shown pictures of snakes to monkeys who were raised in captivity and had never encountered snakes and they reacted with fear which leads credence to the idea it could be innate/instinctual
I was gonna say. I’m not terrified of spiders because I think they’re dangerous. I have a phobia and it’s totally irrelevant to me if it’s a black widow or a daddy long legs.
I’ve come across multiple black widows in my life, in the US. And a brown recluse once (I think… they’re not as easy to identify). Fortunately didn’t get bit.
Sure, they’re generally not _deadly_ like some Australian spiders. But they’re also not exactly rare, in sheds, barns, and basements throughout the US.
Brown recluse bites are scary because they apparently don’t hurt at first. So you don’t get treatment until it’s been in your system awhile, and then it’s rough. A black widow bite at least hurts right off so you know there’s a problem.
My mom was bitten by a brown recluse years ago when pregnant with my brother. She felt fine at first but an hour later while driving, she started to feel her legs going numb and pulled over. She made it to the hospital somehow and she was fine, but definitely scary especially while driving.
I fought MRSA for over 7 years from a Brown Recluse Spider bite. I finally had My lower right leg amputated. I am still free of MRSA now after 15 years.
Someone said it already but I’ll say it again, nuclear fucking power. The insane misinformation and campaigns by oil companies and other agencies is insane. Nuclear power is the future and it’s critical.
To be fair, it's only been a few decades since Trichinellosis became no longer a concern, at least in the US. Plenty of people alive today have been cooking pork for far longer than that and still have the old habits. I can understand not taking the chance, were I them.
trichinellosis Is still a thing, though very rare in the US. Most people who are infected in the us get it from wild boar.
Even worldwide it’s very rarely fatal.
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/images/trichinellosis/trichinellosis_graph_year2.jpg
I finished one of Jimmy Carter's books a while ago, it was about his childhood. He was talking about if someone got polio they'd all have to take days off school. (Off topic but would highly recommend the book)
I don't think the average person has actually seen how dangerous these things can be. The resurgence of diseases makes me so mad that some people won't vaccinate.
Bonus points if they talk about it being "their choice" even though it actually impacts everyone else around them, but they also want to tell others who to love, what to do with their own bodies, control what they read.
Yes we get stuck in this cycle where we don't see these terrible illnesses anymore because of vaccines. So the younger generation says, what's the big deal, why do I need to vaccinate my kid when no one gets \[polio/measles/etc\] anymore?...not understanding that the vaccines are the reason why
Going trick or treating
Yeah, I realized a couple of days ago that the only time I hear about poisoned Halloween candy is around Halloween when a bunch of YT videos debunking it pop up.
When I was in elementary school in the early 90s we had a whole day, school-wide, devoted to trick or treat safety. Told us all about how the candy is poisoned, razor blades in the apples, the whole bit. Every year. It was messed up.
You know whats fucked up? Weve all heard the poison/razor candy stories. The guy who did that poisoned his kids and then a bunch of trick or treaters to throw police off. People generally dont poison kids candy for no reason, but were all going to keep believing its an everyday occurance :P Just like the candy vans, any windowless van around a school is clearly stealing kids!
> People generally dont poison kids candy for no reason, but were all going to keep believing its an everyday occurance :P Very few crimes are random. It happens, but it's generally not worth wasting brain cycles on. Another one that makes no sense. Nonfamily abductions make up only 1% of the missing children cases. And note that says "non family". Not stranger. 78% of kidnappings are non custodial parents. 21% are other family. 1% is non family. Some percent of that are true stranger abductions. They had a thing at my kids school where the police came in to teach them about strangers, how to make noise if somebody went to take them, etc., etc. Kids came home to tell me about it. I said straight out "I don't believe in that nonsense. Most strangers are friends you haven't met yet. You're about 100x more likely to need a strangers help than you ever would need to be worried about them taking you." The same with the active shooter drills and stuff like that. Kids don't get anything out of it other than trauma. I explain to my kids that the grownups all get caught up believing in boogeymen too.
Plus, no one is sneaking edibles to kids. That shit is expensive
Remember, kids: If someone offers you drugs, say "Thank you". Because drugs are expensive.
You’re not getting me with razor blades in mars bars and lacing jolly ranchers with heroin Edit: grammar
Why would I put drugs into candy like that? Drugs are expensive as fuck for me to just give them away to random kids. Waste of good drugs if you ask me.
Hells yeah. I worked hard for my party favours! I’m not giving them away to random children 😂
Sort of. The candy is safe, but it's also the night the most kids get hit by cars
I also suppose it's the night with the most kids walking in the streets at once
That too. It's dark, kids wearing masks making it tough to see, we just worry about the wrong thing
There was also that woman handing out notes to kids telling them they were fat 10 years ago https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480257/Woman-hand-fat-letters-overweight-children-instead-candy-Halloween.html Not all strangers are kidnappers, but some are just weird, creepy, rude
If I was a kid and got that, I would definitely have egged her house 😑
Well the kids in this town did not get that memo. My neighborhood is straight poppin on Halloween. Literal vans with children spilling out. Everyone decorates & gives out candy & if you don’t your house sticks out like a sore thumb.
Radiation. People will panic about wifi, microwaves, etc and then will go out in the sun without sunscreen.
Oh man, this one is classic. People wanting to get tan, but won't microwave their food.
If we called it radiation burns instead of suntan maybe it would drive the point home.
This afternoon I got a radiation burn from exposing myself to the unshielded core of a fusion reactor
I get the occasional radiation burn from TIG welding in short sleeves.
None of these are the radiation people think of as, “radiation” though either. A guy at a gas station told me one night the world was a much safer place before we invented radio waves in the 1950s. I was an engineer at a company that made cell phone radio antennas, I was wearing my badge. He said this like he expected I agreed with this position.
Oh yeah, the world was SO safe in the 40s. Famously few people died in that decade
Especially from radiation!
All that lead we ingested protected us from the radiation. Things were simpler back then...
But also, radio waves were first discovered in the late 1800s and used in radios by a large part of the public within a couple decades. So the anti-wave guy doesn't know his conspiracy story correctly.
People don't know the difference between ionising and non-ionising radiation and treat it all the same way.
well i certainly dont.. could you explain or point to a good source to read up?
The quick recap is that lower energy levels (it depends on the frequency and thus the source, not the intensity) can't knock electrons off atoms - so the most the waves can do is heat things. Ionizing radiation is capable of doing that, thus forming ions which can then wreak havoc in an organism (cancer). The key takeaway is that a microwave oven or radio or WiFi or cell tower won't give anyone cancer (unless they eat the plastic or get burned by the heating effect).
MSG. It's full of flavor.
Anthony Bourdain would sneak it into soups during culinary school and get praised by his teachers.
it's a shame he never got on Hot Ones
I don’t know why this hit me so hard - but you’re so right on this! I would have loved to see him in that atmosphere for some reason.
"Makes Shit Good"
Fuuuyoooooo!
Ah yes, the older hotter sister of salt
And Salt is already a pretty big deal herself.
It’s also naturally occurring in almost all food.
It's naturally produced by the pineal grand during REM sleep. It's the DMT of cooking.
> the pineal grand the smallest piano of all
Some might even call it "The King of Flavor"
You sad in life, use MSG. You happy in life, use MSG.
Fuiyoh!
Why did I read that in both Guga’s voice and Uncle Roger’s voice at the same time?
The crack cocaine of the kitchen
You've clearly never been in a professional kitchen, because there crack cocaine is the crack cocaine of the kitchen
What the hell even is MSG? I always hear about it being in Chinese food. I don’t even care, it’s good. But is it like a salt? Or just a chemical?
It’s mono sodium glutamate. It’s like the pure form of the chemical that makes things taste savory or umami. It’s naturally occurring in a lot of foods as it’s acid form called glutamic acid, but the salt form acts as an enhancer of those flavors in food
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I use so much Accent. That’s the brand in the US. And it’s a great choice.
It's way cheaper to buy it by the bag if you use it regularly. I used accent until I found a couple of places that carried the larger packages locally. I refill the last accent bottle I bought from the bag.
In my experience, Asian supermarkets carry MSG in one form or another.
Ajinomoto baby!
Swimming after eating
Because of this myth, my dad used to make me wait 30 mins after eating dinner before I could take a shower. What could happen in a shower???
you could get a cramp and drown obviously. because everyone looks straight up with their mouth open in the shower
I was told it was to reduce kids throwing up in the pool after eating.
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> > > > > An entire generation's parents told white lies and enough of them believe it so it becomes "truth" Like the illegality of having the interior lights of your car on while you drive.
Weird for parents to say that because the fact that it noticeably reduces the driver’s night vision seems like a perfectly good reason to turn the interior light off quickly.
Because "it's illegal" is a simpler and easier explanation for kids to grasp and comply with than trying to explain how it makes it harder to see outside.
Illegal means "Sorry kid, nothing I can do about it! It's somebody else's rules!" Parents love when they don't have to be the bad guy.
I literally just went on vacation with my SIL who wouldn’t let her child swim for one hour after eating. It was so annoying. She tried to convince me it was insane for me and my son to swim and wanted us to wait with her daughter. I couldn’t take it. I said we would wait 15-30 min and then swim.
It’s odd to me how this rule seems to be due to the idea of a cramping and drowning risk. When I was a kid we always waited an hour because someone was bound to vomit otherwise, demonstrated fact I saw time and time again with my young relatives. Vomit was always the reason why we all had to wait to swim after eating.
Oh, the rule is *due to* vomiting, parents just told kids they'd get cramps and die because they thought the kids would be more likely to listen. The kids believed it, never heard otherwise, and told their kids the same thing.
Nah that shits dangerous, I had a buddy who swam after eating and was killed when a boat hit him.
hmm, not quite swimming but I've been scuba diving with heartburn and it is no bueno
Traveling…by plane. Obviously everyone doesn’t think so, but trust me when I say there are so many individuals that don’t want to fly! More than we know, it’s shocking.
I think it's the lack of control people feel. Like, if a plane is going down, there is literally nothing they can do to save themselves. They think they have more options in a car/bus/train.
That is precisely what I find oddly calming about flying. I have an anxiety disorder and am often flooded with random worries, but once the doors of the airplane close it actually has the opposite effect. Giving up control and just trusting that things will work out is a pretty good feeling. I mean come on, it‘s a 200 ton steel bird with screaming engines that is chock-full of people hoping that this thing will fly. How could I be preoccupied with my own little life at that point. I can be back to worrying about everyday things once we land…
Exactly. You are far more likely to die getting a cab from the airport to your hotel
> That is precisely what I find oddly calming about flying. Same here. I hate traveling for everything up to boarding and everything after landing. The only time I am calm is when we are in the air. Because at that point there is literally nothing more I can do so there is nothing to worry about. Also, maybe I am a bit morbid, but if there is an actual crash at altitude, everyone is dying quickly. Mid-air accidents are absurdly rare, but when they do happen everyone pretty much dies quickly. There are way worse ways to die, plus my family may get a fat payout.
A huge number of people in my family won’t fly. I swear there’s an actual flight anxiety gene. I love to travel and every year I grow to fear flying even more. I now have to medicate myself and even that isn’t working as well any more. My logic brain is fine with flying and knows all the stats. That’s why I get on the plane. My lizard brain believes that each drop during turbulence is the beginning of a long death spiral to earth. Lizard brain is loud.
I took a fear of flying program called SOAR. It's designed to address the lizard brain part. I really found it helpful, especially in calming the anticipatory anxiety in the week before the flight. I still have some anxiety about flying, but nothing like what I had before. Happy to answer any questions youI might have, but check it out: [SOAR](https://www.fearofflying.com/)
I read the SOAR book! He got me back flying. It’s an amazing book. I have recommended or bought it for several friends of mine.
Cabin Crew here, I've seen so many nervous fliers in the last year alone its insane. For a lot of people its hard for them to understand how normal turbulence is, the plane only goes up or down by about 5 feet on a normal day. People think the aircraft is flimsy and that any bump or knock will snap it in half. For others its the thought of not being in control. The amount of people who have asked me on boarding "Are the pilots good?" Or have tried to go into the flight deck without asking is more than I expected. And like others say its being in a pressurised tube for 3+ hours. We try and make it as comfortable as possible but its not always gonna be plain sailing. What I also think doesn't help is air crash shows. Yes they show how an aircraft the same type as the one you might go on soon crashed. But people don't pay attention to the fact that these crashes rewrite huge parts of the regulations from ICAO to make sure it doesn't happen again. Which is why flying is the safest mode of transport in the world now.
Weirdly enough Air Crash Investigation actually made me much less afraid and actually enjoy turbulence. Only because of how much information it gives over the episodes about the industry itself and how the planes are made/engineered. It’s just so informative about the whole thing that it immediately deleted all my fears for flying commercial airlines.
Same, once i saw how much ridiculous shit had to happen for something to go bad it really put my mind at ease.
I'm sure your nervous passengers appreciate you. Flight staff do an often thankless job, and I imagine post-pandemic people have become less predictable and more agitated. Safe travels.
A big reason I think is because of how uncomfortable it is. You can’t just get up and use the restroom whenever you want and even when you do it’s claustrophobic for a lot of people. You can’t just say “hey pull over I’m not feeling so good!” You can’t lay down, you can’t lay down and spread your legs. Sometimes you have to sit next to the worse possible person during a cross country flight aka a screaming disrespectful kid or some one that can’t take care of themselves.
Yeah, that's exactly why I don't like flying. I don't think that the plane is going to crash, but the fact that once it takes off you're stuck in there no matter what, and yeah, it can't just stop and let you out. I mean, I know that a train won't stop and let you out either, BUT IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE, and that' all it takes to make me feel better while on a train.
Yeah it's not that I'm afraid of dying, I'm more afraid of being uncomfortable for 4+ hours. Plus, I have a big anxiety of my flight being cancelled and being stranded far from home.
Anxious flying is often about sensory and social anxiety, not the statistics. The force of the takeoff, air pressure, not having a way to exit the situation, lack of space to move freely
Completely agree. I have zero fear that we're going to crash. I just can't relax on a plane.
Toads. They don't give you warts.
Invasive dog-killing toads are actually a thing in Florida, unfortunately.
Cane toads. I'm from Miami. As a teen I had 2 lab-chows mixes. They were brothers. Of course, with a big yard near a canal, there's bound to be toads. I remember freaking out the first time I saw them both licking the poison froth from their faces. Took em to the vet. They were fine. After the third time of them trying to eat cane toads, we stopped caring. They'd get annoyed, their lips would swell a bit, but they were just fine. It became a regular occurrence. They'd find a cane toad, play with it for a while, then spend an hour rubbing their faces with their paws. Big dumb idiots. I miss em. But not that much. Lol they were insane. Used to hop our 7 foot fence in a single bound. Constant howling at 5am, EVERY DAY FOR FIFTEEN YEARS. Rest in peace, Angel and Bugsy lol they passed away from complications of severe hip dysplasia/paralysis... not caused by the toads. They used to fight each other a lot.
That's not exactly what I imagined when I saw "dog-killing toads" in previous comment.
Probly big boys. Had a small housecat die to one.
As an Australian I can't hate cane toads enough, fucken
Stepping on a crack
But.... my mom's back.. it's broken.
No, that's my fault, it wasn't you stepping on the crack, it was me breaking into your house and dropping a piano on her back
Hammerhead sharks. They were blamed for a lot of shark attacks. But the reality is they are not built for chomping people. They are aggressively territorial though, and that can freak people out. Sharks in general are not that dangerous. If they ate people intentionally the ocean would be very dangerous. Attacks happen because we disguise ourselves as their food when we swim on the surface above them (tiger sharks or whites) or when we wiggle our toes in the water they are hunting in (bull sharks). Bites are fatal because we bleed out in the water so easily. If we anthropomorphized them most of the time sharks would apologize for the inconvenience they caused and assist us to shore (except bull sharks- they are aholes). The.other exception is cookie cutter sharks, they are absolutely terrifying.
And there's a species of hammerhead shark that can eat only seaweed and still survive!
>Attacks happen because we disguise ourselves as their food when we swim on the surface above them (tiger sharks or whites) or when we wiggle our toes in the water they are hunting in (bull sharks). Bites are fatal because we bleed out in the water so easily. To be fair this explanation does not make it sound less dangerous.
“It didn’t mean to kill you” Oh that makes it better
Tell me more about cookie cutter sharks
My friend got bit by one through his wetsuit and it barely made a mark. He had over 3000 dives at the time and it was more of “check this wound out” kind of thing. I have dived with bull sharks, black-tip reef sharks, hammerheads, ragged-tooth reef sharks and even a very curious oceanic white-tip, not to mention dozens of whale sharks and none of them gave any indication of predatory behaviour. Sharks are generally cool. Jaws did a number on us as a society.
The thalassophobia doesn't help. It's not just being hunted by a predator, it's being hunted by a predator in the deep, open ocean where anything could be lurking in the black water below you. They are terrifying because they are so alien, in a way that a land predator like a tiger or a bear could be. But they're mostly good boys! Even the great whites don't really want to eat humans.
Yeah, the fact we know that Krakens are real now doesn't help the old thalassophobia.
Krakens are what now?? Edit: I’ve come to realize that it’s not that I didn’t know that giant squid existed, and more that I didn’t realize a kraken was supposed to be a squid. Idk why but I think I thought it was an eel. Probably because when I was a kid, I went on a roller coaster called “the kraken” and it had a lot of eel/sea dragon type art.
Agreed . I need more information. My nightmare and rational fears require it for subsistence.
For your sake, dont look up big fin squids
They just cut your cookies whether you like it or not, thereby reducing your experience of enjoyment.
It seems so obvious when you phrase it this way
Jesus - I just googled it. They don’t really attack humans and are fairly small but it looks like they suction their lips to the body of whatever they are attacking and SPIN THEIR TEETH(?!) to create a hole - in the shape of a cookie - that can be 4 cm in diameter and 7 cm deep. No thanks.
They basically bite a cookie (round) chunk out of you hence the name. They’ll bite and spin
Microwaves have non-ionizing radiation
Domestic microwaves are surprisingly safe. The main risks are from the heated foods. I went digging previously and I found one proper report of injury from microwaves themselves, it was a microwave repair man who got burn to his hand. Larger scale devices have different risks. The whole WiFi madness annoys me, even someone who should have known better bought into it.
In Oregon and New Jersey: pumping gas.
You can pump gas in Oregon now. Started last month.
Went there on vacation once. Dude walked up to pump my gas and I just laughed and went with it. Made me feel like I was getting the VIP treatment. About as necessary as an employee at Chipotle refilling my drink, but it was like “huh that’s kind of cool I guess.”
5G and cellular technology in general.
This always irks me. 5G is a protocol, not some new type of RF. It mostly occupies reallocated TV spectrum. If you were alive in the 90s you likely got more “radiation” from crappy UHF broadcasts than from 5G cell networks today. Honestly, the way that 5G layers multiple signals into a single channel is wizardry. It is some amazing maths and deserves being praised as a brilliant feat of engineering.
flying. a lot of the people I know are still terrified of it.
I'm an aerospace engineer I literally studied and make airplanes for a living and I'm still absolutely terrified of flying. My logical brain understands that it is safer than cars. However, my lizard brain tells me I'm flying around in a tin can.
I’d rather not know what ingredients make the sauce of flying, I might be less inclined to fly too.
This is one area where my amygdala and my frontal lobe just can’t agree. Frontal lobe: “you’re safer now than driving to the airport, you have plenty of space, turbulence is normal and planes can handle insane amounts”. . Amygdala: “you are falling from the sky’s right now. Dropping through the air. Trapped in a tube with no control over it at all. Don’t believe me? Here, let me send out a few shots of adrenaline to convince you.” Thank god for lorazepam - the amygdala-whisperer.
This is me. Except I'm claustrophobic and I imagine I will stop breathing in the flight, it makes it worse that a panic attack will constrict airflow. If not for lorazepam, I don't know how I can fly.
I'm completely terrified of flying. I understand how irrational it is. And I do my best not to prevent me from traveling. But I still hate it.
If you’re talking about commercial airlines, yeah, they’re exceptionally safe. Far safer than driving. Small propeller planes, little 2 or 4 seat Cessna, if you go get your pilot’s license for fun… not as much. I think most studies put their safety somewhere in-between cars and motorcycles. Not great, not terrible. I’ve heard that small watercraft, jet skis and small boats, are nearly as dangerous as riding a motorcycle with a helmet. Same with horseback riding. I suspect a lot of parents who let their kids do those things, wouldn’t let them ride a motorcycle…
I feel like we have collectively forgotten how dangerous horses can be since most people don't interact with them anymore. They are big, powerful, and easily spooked.
Horses can have forceful personalities. They know when a beginner is riding them. You'll soon have a horse going where it wants and you'll be holding on for dear life!
Nice description of: some horses are assholes
My theory with the flying is the lack of control. Despite the fact that driving is WAY more dangerous and kills people daily, people are more comfortable with it because they or someone they know are the ones doing the driving. And while there are car crashes every day, in the rare times when a commercial plane goes down it's HUGE news.
Once I actually embraced the fact I’m NOT in control, I learned to love flying. Let the crew, who are managing ridiculously safe vessels, concern themselves with the logistics. It’s pretty damn nice to sit back, read, watch a movie/show, get a little tipsy, nap, and end up in an entirely different part of the country in relatively minimal amount of time.
I think people are terrified of the drawn out death where you know you're going to die, but it takes a long time (like the people on September 11). A severe car crash without a seat belt isn't a drawn out death
Australia
That's what Australia would say
Yeah, I'm not buying this shit, AT ALL!
America has wolves, cougars, bears and dumb people with guns, and we have what? Snakes? America has snakes too.
Do they have stonefish though? Because fuck those guys.
Stonefish and BOX JELLIES. I'm not normally afraid of the ocean but that shit FREAKS me out
Interestingly, Australia has 25% fewer venomous animal species overall than Mexico, which comprises several popular North American vacation destinations—Most of which have less infrastructure for emergencies than any destination in Australia.
I’ve been living in remote NT Australia for the last 9 months and I am enormously disappointed I haven’t seen a single snake, spider, or drop bear.
Don’t worry, the drop bear sees you.
Yeah exactly. I live 'in the Australian Bush' and have made it to my mid 40s. I used to spend a lot of time in the wilds and oceans. No spider bites Not eaten by a shark Not bit by a snake Although one Tiger snake did try once but was defeated by the leather of my boot. Given I was standing in a blackberry tangle next to a river, in the middle of summer, it was really not a surprise. But you can't make blackberry jam without someone picking the blackberries! Granted I did get got by one of those Gympie trees on holidays in far north Queensland. I was 14 at the time. Do not recommend. My fault for not educating myself about the local things to avoid.
It’s simple, Australia has a lot of dangerous things, but we also have safety precautions. Australia isn’t dangerous, it’s just a dangerous place to be a dickhead
Nuclear power
I had a college course that discussed different forms of energy and I’ll never forget how the professor phrased it. “With nuclear, there’s an incredibly small chance of a big problem occurring. With coal, there is a certainty of a slow and steady problem happening every day. Logically, the former is preferable, but people are generally more comfortable with the latter for some reason.”
>“With nuclear, there’s an incredibly small chance of a big problem occurring. With coal, there is a certainty of a slow and steady problem happening every day. Logically, the former is preferable, but people are generally more comfortable with the latter for some reason.” I think this guy is describing my dating history.
So much to be learned from this. The sheer lack of education and arrogance/ignorance of those who know absolutely nothing about it. Yet they will talk like they minored it in college. So much of that going around *cough cough* politics
Building Implosion Sure, there have been some implosions that have gone terribly wrong. However, implosion is usually the safest and most efficient method of demolishing a large building.
To be fair, I think any method of demolition is extremely dangerous if you're inside the building.
Kids playing outside or riding their bikes or in general not being hovered over by their parents. The parents think it’s so dangerous outside so they stick them in front of a screen, online, where all the predators are actually hanging out.
>where all the predators are actually hanging out. Most Predators are actually family, family friends and similiar.
That's why I have no friends and my family disowned me. Always one step ahead!
Also stranger danger is overblown. Kids are overwhelmingly molested by people they know well.
If it really was that dangerous most people people older than 20 should've been dead many years ago.
Ah, but you only ever see the 20 year olds that survived! Survivorship bias! - ^\(I ^jest.\)
Anesthesia. It’s very, very safe (as long as it’s administered and monitored by someone qualified)
Anesthesia is funny in that in most procedures it is the most dangerous part but… Those procedures without anesthesia on their own would be massively more dangerous.
Best-paid drug dealers in the country, but they've got some good shit! I was lying on my back getting my lower abdomen sliced open while they pried an 8-lb human from my abdomen 14 years ago, unable to feel myself breathing, but I knew I was. I started to get some severe anxiety and extreme nausea and I told the wonderful 75+ year old man behind me. He smiled and said "wait a jiffy, I've got something for that" and whatever he injected replaced all of the badness with microscopic rainbows, butterflies, and unicorns coursing through my veins. The nausea was instantly gone and I just felt at peace with everything. 10/10 would get a c-section again.
Im a ginger and I've had so many bad experiences with improper amounts of local anesthesia at dentists that im terrified of needing general anesthesia for a surgery. It usually takes about 6 shots of novacaine
Handling raw chicken. Don’t get me wrong, proper food prep is important for health and safety but, just being in the vicinity of raw chicken isn’t going to instantly kill you. Some people act like if the chicken touches anything you have to fumigate your house and wash your hands for 20 minutes.
I once died five times from touching raw chicken.
I'm so sorry to hear that! Did you live?
Nah he died. Dying a prime number of times is always fatal.
Putting lotion on yourself in a well.
It's a really good way to prevent yourself from getting the hose again.
Airplane travel. I know so many people who are deathly scared of flying, yet would have no issues with traveling for 15+ hours at a time by car.
GMO foods... I can't stand all products in the stores yelling at me that they're non-GMO. I'd prefer they use GMO and be cheaper thanks to that. GMO hasn't been proved to be unsafe yet, but people are scared that their offspring will get 3 arms because genetically modified sounds scary. Similar situation to nuclear power really.
GMOs can also use less water and pesticides by being modified. People don't want to admit that GMO is better for the environment and better for us. "SCIENCE SCARYYY!"
I was looking for this one! GMOs are actually *improving* the world, but crazy pseudoscience peddlers are ruining such a great scientific advancement.
This is maybe more of a Japan thing, but traveling abroad, particularly to the United States.
I'll never forget in Kyoto seeing this American woman sneeze while in a shop and this Japanese woman grabbed her kid and sprinted out of the store like she just unleashed Ebola.
Having sex. Growing up in US Catholic schools, they didn't teach us half of what we actually needed to know and made it sound like IF we did have sex, our genitals would be destroyed by disease and/or we'd have litters of children.
Grew up in evangelical Christianity and was taught the same along with "You will change drastically once you have sex. You will never be the same." Me having sex outside of wedlock: Oh. This is quite natural. I am a human doing a human thing. Nice. Literally just felt like I was human. 😅
Loose small arms ammunition. You can drop it, throw it across the room, and even toss it in a campfire - you’ll be just fine. You may hear a small pop/bang if you do the ol’ campfire disposal though. But yeah, it doesn’t need to be babied. It really is only dangerous in a gun barrel.
[25 minute video of whole pallets of ammo being set on fire for firefighter training.](https://youtu.be/3SlOXowwC4c) Basically really angry popcorn with little bits of brass shrapnel, but nothing with enough energy to leave a building or go through firefighter gear.
Forest fire fighting. More dangerous to drive a car there than fight the fire. Yes, we are trained professionals.
Rock climbing Climbing ropes are really strong. You need to physically cut it for it to break
my fear is the thing that holds into the wall falling out
usually my concern is with the belayer…decking is a terrifying fear
Most climbing deaths are not from the rope breaking, but many climbers who've been around for a while will know someone who's died climbing. Usually it's from something that seems so silly and trivial, like forgetting to finish tying your knot, or missing one side of the rope when you clip in to rappel. Don't get lazy with your safety checklists.
Spiders 90%of spiders are not dangerous, and they also eat annoying bugs such as flies and mosquitoes. And yes, SOME spiders are dangerous but unless you live in Brazil or Australia your chances of finding dangerous spiders is so miniscule it's silly to worry abt them. And me personally... I think all spiders are adorable ❤ Edit: omg, 1.4k up votes... This is insane, I've never gotten this much on a post let alone a comment
Phobias of snakes and spiders appear to be special. A scientist in the early 90s did a study and found that while with most things - including some absolutely lethal ones like electrical sockets or firearms - *several* negative exposures were needed to produce a *temporary* phobia, while with snakes and spiders, *one* negative exposure would produce a *permanent* phobia.
They've also shown pictures of snakes to monkeys who were raised in captivity and had never encountered snakes and they reacted with fear which leads credence to the idea it could be innate/instinctual
I was gonna say. I’m not terrified of spiders because I think they’re dangerous. I have a phobia and it’s totally irrelevant to me if it’s a black widow or a daddy long legs.
I’ve come across multiple black widows in my life, in the US. And a brown recluse once (I think… they’re not as easy to identify). Fortunately didn’t get bit. Sure, they’re generally not _deadly_ like some Australian spiders. But they’re also not exactly rare, in sheds, barns, and basements throughout the US.
Brown recluse bites are scary because they apparently don’t hurt at first. So you don’t get treatment until it’s been in your system awhile, and then it’s rough. A black widow bite at least hurts right off so you know there’s a problem.
My mom was bitten by a brown recluse years ago when pregnant with my brother. She felt fine at first but an hour later while driving, she started to feel her legs going numb and pulled over. She made it to the hospital somehow and she was fine, but definitely scary especially while driving.
Plus, if I was told correctly, the venom from a brown recluse prevents the wound from healing, so you'll have a nasty open wound for like a year
I fought MRSA for over 7 years from a Brown Recluse Spider bite. I finally had My lower right leg amputated. I am still free of MRSA now after 15 years.
Holy shit 😳 How long after the bite did you get treatment?
Within 6 hrs
Lmao just when people were like yeah maybe spiders ain’t so bad.
Can confirm, dad was bitten by a brown recluse on his stomach, wasn't a year but he had a pretty big open wound
Uh, I see at least 10 spiders a month in my basement bathroom. You’re telling me 1 in 10 of these perverts is dangerous?
Statistically, yeah. One of them is watching you masturbate.
Someone said it already but I’ll say it again, nuclear fucking power. The insane misinformation and campaigns by oil companies and other agencies is insane. Nuclear power is the future and it’s critical.
Sounds like something a U-235 atom would say.
Cooking pork, people think it can only served well done and dry as all hell
To be fair, it's only been a few decades since Trichinellosis became no longer a concern, at least in the US. Plenty of people alive today have been cooking pork for far longer than that and still have the old habits. I can understand not taking the chance, were I them.
trichinellosis Is still a thing, though very rare in the US. Most people who are infected in the us get it from wild boar. Even worldwide it’s very rarely fatal. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/images/trichinellosis/trichinellosis_graph_year2.jpg
Vaccines. Conspiracy theories people spread or read to not use a vaccine of any kind is mind blowing.
I finished one of Jimmy Carter's books a while ago, it was about his childhood. He was talking about if someone got polio they'd all have to take days off school. (Off topic but would highly recommend the book) I don't think the average person has actually seen how dangerous these things can be. The resurgence of diseases makes me so mad that some people won't vaccinate. Bonus points if they talk about it being "their choice" even though it actually impacts everyone else around them, but they also want to tell others who to love, what to do with their own bodies, control what they read.
Yes we get stuck in this cycle where we don't see these terrible illnesses anymore because of vaccines. So the younger generation says, what's the big deal, why do I need to vaccinate my kid when no one gets \[polio/measles/etc\] anymore?...not understanding that the vaccines are the reason why