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_wegs··on The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer
Are you joking? I'm legitimately asking.

Primary institute of skin cancer in Australia: https://www.cancer.org.au/cancer-information/causes-and-prev...

See number 2.

I'm hypothesising you may live in a place where skin cancer is not a big issue?

_wegs··on The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer
> make sure your skin gets gradually attuned

Is this a thing? Surely DNA damage from UV is dose-dependent, in which case any greater amount of UV results in a greater chance of skin cancer.

_wegs··on The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer
Australia is exceptionally bad for the sun. It's crazy because the incidence of skin cancer is still so high even though sun protection is drilled into us since birth. I'll rant further that Australia is not even good from a UV/temperature tradeoff because the UV is always ridiculously high. Nice warm Mediterranean summer UV level is equivalent to a freezing cold winter day in Australia.
_wegs··on Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
Have you tried living in Australia? I would like SPF 100 sunscreen pronto, please and thank you
_wegs··on You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019)
At least in Australia, removing a tick by force is not recommended. This is because it has a chance of the tick vomiting pathogens into your blood. Which is particularly bad in regions where ticks carry bad diseases (like the paralysis tick in Australia). The recommendation is instead to use a freeze spray which immediately immobilises the tick.
_wegs··on Young Doctors Want Work-Life Balance. Older Doctors Say That's Not the Job
Pity that $100k is quickly approaching unliveable for a single young person in Australia if they want any sort of secure future.