A brief thread on face masks and illness, based on my credentials of running a bedbug site for 14+ years, and my diploma from the Twitter Institute of Public Health
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So bedbugs 101: they live in and around bed furniture, are hard to eradicate because they are very flat and like to hide. They subsist entirely on you and me; they don't care about whether the bed is made, there is trash around, people are poor or rich, etc.
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As anyone knows who has gotten them, bedbugs are really hard to eradicate. This became a severe problem for American hotels and urban apartment buildings in the early 2000's, as bedbugs (for reasons unimportant to the thread) staged a comeback, after a generation without them
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What I quickly noticed on my bedbug reporting site, which let people post anonymous reports of encounters in hotels and buildings, was that everyone got racist as hell about them. They were always the fault of foreign travelers or foreigners who moved in next door
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Why would it be a joke? My jokes are usually funnier than that.
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