This stupid country just lets people fucking die and get disabled everyday. I’m sick of it. My tax dollars just go to killing and dismembering people abroad. Fuck fuck fuck.

  • mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    doesn’t literally everyone who spends any time in a woodsy area gets them?? i got bitten like 6 times a year as a kid and got a couple last year

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      3 months ago

      Bafflingly, I have never gotten a tick despite being in situations where everyone else does. Mosquitoes love me though :( (leeches and ticks seem to avoid me idk why)

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        3 months ago

        might be a regional thing, i looked this up and am deep in the blue:

        can’t really say this is clearly indicative of tick bites overall since i think our ticks are just more infected, but it’s probably a combination of both

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        3 months ago

        I’m a fellow mosquito magnet. I’ve pulled one deer tick off my after a whole lot of hiking (and literal thousands of mosquito bites regardless of what measures I try to take against them)

        Never gone wading through the bayou to see how leeches like me though

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          In Australia I’ve spent some time in more tropical areas (Queensland), no leeches, including just faffing about in swamps and stuff. Also just slept on the ground in more semi-arid areas (SW WA), and gotten no ticks despite everyone else getting them. On the other hand, people have spotted me with a cloud of mosquitoes around me, and I’ve gotten over 300 in one night. idk what’s going on