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pillbinge t1_jdhzw7t wrote

I understand there's a news effect, where if you hear news of, say, a suicide, suicide rates go up. Same thing happens, horrifically, with school shootings.

But is it literally everything? Trains just derail now? Or have they always derailed like this and we just haven't gotten reports?

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imnota4 t1_jdjgqaa wrote

I think it's always been like this and we just didn't hear about how poorly maintained our infrastructure was. I'm sure bridges collapse more than we'd like to think too.

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