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.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    2 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)

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      2 months ago

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

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      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

    • booty [he/him]
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      2 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

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        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