People living in Baltimore's low-income neighborhoods who see rats as a big problem are significantly more likely to have depressive symptoms such as sadness and anxiety, the research finds.My turn:
This study provides very strong evidence that rats are an underappreciated stressor that affects how people feel about their lives in low-income neighborhoods," German said.
This is not about an unsightly neighborhood making people unhappy for fcks sake.
It's about germs.
Rats carry Toxoplasma, a neurotropic, psychoactive parasite associated with suicidal tendencies.
It's been causing human weirdness in crowded, unsanitary cities since the Ancient Egyptians.
