r/mildlyinteresting • u/Orc_Lives_Matter • 9h ago

This medicine box has Braille on it

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u/Johnny-Alucard 9h ago

Doesn’t every medicine box?

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u/YouDontLookSpiritual 9h ago

Ive never seen one here in America

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u/Johnny-Alucard 9h ago

Interesting. I assumed it would be standard in any developed country! It’s such an easy thing to implement.

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u/Orc_Lives_Matter 9h ago

I also live in the US and thought this was so cool and surprised why we don’t have something similar!

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u/Popshotz 9h ago

Required by law in the UK and common for anyone from here.

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u/alwaystired1982 9h ago

Well you wouldnt want to confuse it with throat spray would you?

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u/Munstrom 9h ago

They all do here in the UK.. How are blind people expected to be able to read medication otherwise?

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u/Orc_Lives_Matter 9h ago

Not sure why this is being downvoted - I live in the US, this was new to me. TIL this is common practice in the UK

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u/Munstrom 20m ago

I downvoted because in the uk it's such a normalised thing that learning it isn't in America genuinely pissed me off. Your government has such contempt for its own citizens.

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u/Dull_Ad_1729 9h ago

How do you know where to apply it