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I wonder if this is an effect of isolation?
I'm curious what sort of environmental factors influence this sort of behavior.
Opportunism and lack of consequences
When help is 30+ minutes away....
environmental factors like it being really fucking cold 8 months out of the year?
Keep in mind that there's only 700,000 people in Alaska. 14 cases are gonna show up on the national scale.