Spiders.
Even black widows basically have to be harassed into biting.
Good, I’m glad someone said this already. I love the spiders in and out of my house. Most are totally harmless and keep the numbers of other bugs in check. Plus they can be really fun to watch. Granted I’m in the US, some places have really wicked spiders I wish to never meet.
Muslims.
Socialism.
Careful, friend. Once you start giving a shit about people who don’t have much money it’s a slippery slope
Yeah…good trolling there.
The government providing a baseline existence for it’s people is like super fucking dangerous.
There are already programs. Run by a government that obviously can’t help. We don’t need to share our wealth, if we were provided wealth through real jobs. With a paycheck to buy whatever it is you need and be able to save. Less taxes, less inflation. It’s the government chopping your wealth at your knees too “feed” other people will only make it harder to become financially well set for your chosen life style.
MSG. People will swear it gives them all manner of ailments
5G, Vaccines, MSG, WiFi, Socialized Medicine, Jews.
Why did I read that like the Pokérap
2.4ghz WiFi is actually classed as a carcinogen by the WHO. There’s some pretty interesting and heavily peer reviewed research supporting this. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10643389.2021.1951549
In South Korea most fans have timers so they’re not left on overnight, because people think it’ll kill you if you do leave it on.
This belief wasn’t helped by medical examiners putting “death by fan” on the death certificates of suicide victims to help the dead save face and spare the families the embarrassment of a “cowardly death” for a few decades.What is death by fan supposed to mean? Like how would you die from a fan?
Ask John Lennon.
LGBTQ people and drag queens.
The most dangerous thing about drag shows is that a Christian can show up with a gun
“Christian”
True Scotsman Fallacy detected.
Nah, quotes not necessary.
Vaccinations!
Living near a nuclear plant.
Little do they know, that they get more than 50x more radiation effect from the natural surroundings and the rocks in earth than from the nuclear plant 🤭 And our body is really capable of dealing with that since the beginning of our evolution (DNA repairs and co).
https://pages.vassar.edu/ltt/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-21-at-1.18.09-AM1.png
here is a chart showing radiation intensities for various sources of radiation
Living near a coal plant, on the other hand, is really, REALLY bad for you.
it’s not the background radiation that worries people, it’s the risk of a Fukushima-type incident.
And even then, despite the catastrophe it was, it only had 1 death attributed to it.
TIL. That’s a good point. 20k deaths due to the earthquake but only 1 due to the power plant itself.
People who are dependent on opiates and opioids.
Some people who are in a lot of pain legitimately need the medicine in order to have a normal life. It doesn’t make us high, it makes us ‘normal’ because we actually require the medicine to bring us to normal levels of activity.
Just because someone is physically dependent on the medicine, does not make them an addict too
Most of us would rather never take another pill in our lives if we were suddenly healed.
I was just commiserating with my wife about how we both exhibit a bunch of signs of ADHD but can’t get medicated because doctors are highly discouraged from prescribing them, because of the misuse associated with them.
GPs won’t prescribe them because of societal pressure, and yet there is also a nationwide shortage of psychiatrists.
The end result is that people who need something to get them to baseline suffer because politicians need to make a hammer-style policy for a scalpel-style problem.
A lot of people are turning to the dark web to get just basic medicine because it’s such a headache to get the medicine that they need. It’s WAY cheaper too.
It’s sad that people have to resort to that, but it’s better than suffering.
Hmm. I’d be concerned that the lack of regulation from medicines from the dark web would cause you to take something that makes me suffer even more.
Yeah, but it’s easier and more reliable in some cases.
For example, every three months I have to go through a renewal process to get my diabetes medicine with my insurance. That’s up to a week without my life saving medicine.
If I were to get it on the darknet, I’d add years to my life since I don’t have to wait weeks to get the proper medicine.
If you’re dependent on the drug that’s an addiction. You may feel that your addiction is more justified than others, and that’s ok. Humans have been using drugs for thousands of years both recreationally and medicinally.
That’s not true. There’s a difference between addiction and dependence medically.
You don’t say that a person on insulin is an addict. You don’t say that a person on heart medicine is an addict. We shouldn’t say that a person on opiates are addicts.
Addicts take the medicine without a medical need. Dependent people need to take the medicine in order to live a normal life.
Most US cities are not as dangerous as the news makes them out to be.
For my country (Germany): Catching a draft. Basically people believe that a light breeze from an open window will make you ill.
We have a similar one here in the US. People think if you go outside when it’s too cold, you’ll get sick.
It’s not completely baseless. You can’t get sick from the cold itself, but lower core body temp does weaken your immune system until you warm up, making it easier for you to get sick if you do get exposed to something.
The cold, dry air during the winter can also dry out the mucus membranes in the sinuses which can make it easier for pathogens to enter the body. Again, doesn’t make you sick directly but does interfere with your body’s defense mechanisms.
In the US, I hear this more when your hair is wet: “Don’t go outside, it’s cold and your hair’s wet, you’ll get sick!”
Also Russia and probably most eastern European countries. One of my kids will catch a cold and the first thing my mother or grandmother will ask is if they were somewhere drafty.
Reading in the dark.
Many people think sharks are dangerous, but shark attacks are accidents in which sharks mistake humans for seals. Sharks are actually in more danger from us.
Sharks.
More people die due to things like selfies, falling out of your bed, tipped vending machines and heck, even balloons, then to a shark.
Just because something can kill you doesnt mean it will, more often than not, it actually wont.
Here there might be a confusion between danger, and statistics.
all those examples are about events or things that are far more frequent than be near a shark
if the average person could be close to a shark as many time in life than leaving a bed, be close to something that can flip, or to people taking selfies, statistics might be very different
