BS Summary: This video contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Confirmation Bias, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 71.9% saturation with 97 hits. Analysis detected 664 faulty-reasoning hits from 135 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 98.3% and a BS Rank of 99% (324 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.10% of the video peer group.
There are the anti-spitting laws.
Spitting was actually common among early Chinese immigrant communities and was believed to help spread diseases like tuberculosis, which is interesting because the Chinese migrants themselves believed that keeping flem in the throat was unhealthy and that spitting could ward off bad luck or ill will.
Anyway, in the 1980s, the government launched a stop spitting campaigns, plastering posters everywhere and warning that spit could transmit serious respiratory illnesses.
And when SARS hit in 2003, anti-spitting enforcement ramped up again because Singapore recorded about 238 SARS cases and 33 deaths.
So people started getting fined and publicly named for spitting in public spaces because in a dense tropical city like Singapore, a single bad habit could turn into an outbreak.
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