The shoe thing actually has an interesting history. After the civil war, doctors from the north noticed an awful lot of southerners were clinically lethargic. Turned out that open pit toilets breed hookworms and a lot of people in the south were severely anemic. Pretty much completely reversed that with outhouses, plumbing and shoes. Since hookworms can move a meter a day, and a lot of people walked around barefoot because it’s so hot.
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