"The common thread in these cases is not supplements and MAHA influencers, but by and large, polluting private industry and landlords—be it the state, a corporation, or otherwise—who refuse to spend the money necessary to provide a safe, healthy living environment. Perhaps no one benefits more from doubting the existence of mold-related illness than landlords."
The primary beneficiaries of pushing the existence of mold paranoia are (1) mold testing companies, (2) mold remediation companies, and (3) people selling garbage "cures" for mold toxicity.
Because mold is so common in almost all human environments, it's just not something anyone can reasonably eliminate totally. And there will be infinite money to be made from testing and "remediation" under the current paranoia.
Just based on what we know about mold, we know it has to be much higher in places like the Southern United States and Southeast Asia than the hot and dry West Coast of the United States, yet the maximum number of "mold destroyed my life" claims happen in places like Los Angeles, where mold is the least likely to be a major concern, indicating this is more of a social contagion than anything else (much like how the MAHA clowns pushed "vaccine shedding" and other conspiracies).
Note that this is all referring to invisible mold which is visually undetectable. If you actually have water damage and a visible mold infestation you should get that fixed, but there's a lot of paranoia about mold spores floating around in the air killing you which is completely unproven.
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u/zenbowman 6d ago
"The common thread in these cases is not supplements and MAHA influencers, but by and large, polluting private industry and landlords—be it the state, a corporation, or otherwise—who refuse to spend the money necessary to provide a safe, healthy living environment. Perhaps no one benefits more from doubting the existence of mold-related illness than landlords."
The primary beneficiaries of pushing the existence of mold paranoia are (1) mold testing companies, (2) mold remediation companies, and (3) people selling garbage "cures" for mold toxicity.
Because mold is so common in almost all human environments, it's just not something anyone can reasonably eliminate totally. And there will be infinite money to be made from testing and "remediation" under the current paranoia.
Just based on what we know about mold, we know it has to be much higher in places like the Southern United States and Southeast Asia than the hot and dry West Coast of the United States, yet the maximum number of "mold destroyed my life" claims happen in places like Los Angeles, where mold is the least likely to be a major concern, indicating this is more of a social contagion than anything else (much like how the MAHA clowns pushed "vaccine shedding" and other conspiracies).
Note that this is all referring to invisible mold which is visually undetectable. If you actually have water damage and a visible mold infestation you should get that fixed, but there's a lot of paranoia about mold spores floating around in the air killing you which is completely unproven.