Did you see the part where only half of those ingestions were intentional?
You would be freaking out about rainbow parties and snap bracelets in the 90s.
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mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoChildren were never eating tide pods either
Yes they were. Because some people really are that dumb.
The same year, nearly 220 teens were reportedly exposed, and about 25 percent of those cases were intentional, according to data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
So far in 2018, there have been 37 reported cases among teenagers — half of them intentional, according to the data.
washingtonpost.com/…/teens-are-daring-each-other-…
And that’s just reported numbers for teenagers. I can almost guarantee you the number of idiots that ate one and didn’t know how to call poison control is much higher.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
How does one unintentionally eat a tide pod? So you tell the guy when you’re checking in at the ER “Homie and I were just playing catch with a tide pod and I was yelling at cousin Mabel to get off the dang roof and it just dropped into my mouth and I swallowed. It was a one in a million shot doc. One in a million.”
More likely they did it intentionally and didn’t want to admit to it to avoid embarrassment. That or one of their dumb buddies thought it’d be funny based on some Tiktok they saw so they dropped one into someone’s bowl of Doritos.
Either way all I was doing was correcting a false statement you made about children never eating tide pods. Because they surely did.
rbos@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Ngl my partner put a dishwasher position on the counter the other day and I genuinely thought it was candy for an uncomfortably long second or so.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I feel that, looks like they might taste like one of those carnival lollipops :>
gian@lemmy.grys.it 4 weeks ago
How does one unintentionally eat a tide pod?
The same way a bulb end up in someone ass…
theneverfox@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Because it looks like candy. It feels like jelly. It’s individually wrapped in clear plastic, just like candy
Now, imagine someone leaves one of those on the counter, or in a random drawer. That’s where loose candy lives.
So of course other people, who maybe don’t do laundry and don’t often see tide pods, are going to go “oh, look, candy!”
And then they call poison control as they retch and the cells in the mouth turn to soap, and they get added to the statistics
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Title of your link:
Liquid Laundry Detergent Pods Pose Lethal Risk for Adults With Dementia
For all those teenagers with dementia XD
blarghly@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Speaking of rainbow parties - that was actually a great idea. How come we never do that?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I could support a few of these
Taldan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Out of tens of millions of children, that’s nothing. It was pure fear mongering
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It’s both fear mongering and a problem. I imagine there are a lot more unreported cases, since teens are especially unlikely to ask for help with something like this. On the other hand, it was used as an excuse to attack TikTok, which is stupid because the similar things happen on other platforms and happened before everyone was on social media. Kids will do stupid things as long as peer pressure is a thing.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Your TikTok addiction may have turned you into a psychopath. “Kids die all the time, what’s the big deal?”
The gun rights crowd has better arguments about why their hobby is more important than kids dying.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
? I’ve never used TikTok…
But yes, kids die all the time for various reasons. When talking about individual causes, it’s important to look at the impact on trends. Are more kids dying due to TikTok, or is TikTok merely replacing another cause?
Obviously no death is acceptable, but death will happen. The role of public policy isn’t to prevent all death, but to address the bulk of it with the least invasive policy possible.