I'm suspicious of reports like this — there are thousands of families whose childcare/adult special needs arrangements have collapsed due to COVID & who are struggling to juggle full-time supervision. I'd expect accidental poisonings due to common household chemicals to be way up
For what it's worth, I don't doubt that some very small number of people believe that drinking bleach will protect them from COVID and decided to actually try that. But frankly, judgment like that probably generally represents a larger problem with cognitive function
The fact that inhalations are up over oral ingestions also implies to me that a lot of people may not know how to use cleaning products safely, and possibly a better use of PSA attention would be e.g. not mixing bleach with other household cleaners & always doing proper dilution
In its report, the CDC highlights two cases of poisonings related to COVID prevention mistakes that seem a lot more plausible (and a lot less partisan) than drinking bleach
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tbc I don't think obscure basic or applied research is the place to try to trim fat either, but it's a powerful thing to show people what someone like themselves is buying for the federal government and it's a study about 'roided up hamsters or whatever
I think even smaller decrements will REALLY fire up the typical person, e.g. contracts for $600 hammers
Because most people in this country spend a lot of time thinking about whether to buy the slightly-better-thing when the price difference is like $10
I'd also have had a hard time believing the "Venezuelan gangs are taking over apartment complexes" story if I hadn't had my own utterly insane experience with tenant protection bureaucracy
I think everyone will find something to dislike in my take on Dylan Mulvaney, which is that there is obviously a desperate cultural thirst for someone, anyone, to just wholeheartedly enjoy being a girl in a way that is politically acceptable — and this is probably a good thing!
I do find it reductive and a little bit embarrassing, but man, the culture we have has got to start somewhere. The idea that there is *anything* good about femininity has been MIA for what, a decade? Longer?
While I'm digging my hole, I think trad culture could probably take a note here because a lot of it does come across as very... Girlboss, But With Apron. At times, it delves into "our way is better because it takes 20x as long and hurts." This is not the way, not always
My mom's home in Oregon is being seized by "friends" who she allowed in a few months ago, who now refuse to leave & have literally stolen keys to her outbuildings. It's impossible to navigate her rights & obligations because local housing lawyers are booked up w similar conflicts
They moved two additional people in; mom can't afford to go anywhere else, so she has four people who live rent free in her house and glower at her as they go to and fro, leaving their dishes for her to clean and taking hour-long showers
You cannot imagine how bad tenant-landlord law is in some of these coastal states