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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.
High heat, humidity, and bath salts. It’s a winning combination!
Bath salts are soooo 2010. We're on meth and fentanyl now
It's the Sunshine Laws!
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And the lunatics.
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Mostly the lunatics.
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.