• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    You know it’s Russia when a specific legal clause is inserted in the medical care laws defining being poisoned as a common form of injury.

    “Look we have to do something with all this novochok we have left over from soviet days!”

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      6 months ago

      Ahahahaha. Nice one.

      It is list of injuries requiring emergency treatment, not common injuries.

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      6 months ago

      But since Botulism is also form of poisoning, it is not something too uncommon. And if not treated, it will 60% likely to kill.

      And you can get it by eating old canned food.

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      6 months ago

      Not all poisonings occur because of assassination attempts. (in fact I imagine it to be a very tiny minority of poisoning cases) Someone can be poisoned by picking the wrong mushroom, thinking it to be a different edible one, or by eating the delicious looking tide pods or by drinking a cup of the methanol-rich alcoholic beverage your friend made (or by drinking too much alcohol in general).