this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder if this is an effect of isolation?

I'm curious what sort of environmental factors influence this sort of behavior.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opportunism and lack of consequences

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When help is 30+ minutes away....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

environmental factors like it being really fucking cold 8 months out of the year?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind that there's only 700,000 people in Alaska. 14 cases are gonna show up on the national scale.