Another effective protection is the phenomenon of being, "Florida Stupid". Unfortunately, its not as rare as one would hope. They run around down here like bump-n-go cockroaches, all 4 brain cells firing madly, keeping the "Florida Man" meme alive and current...
Florida man Austin Hatfield bitten by cottonmouth while kissing it https://starcasm.net/photos-florida-...mouth-kissing/
The idiot in question.
Same idiot, 3 minutes later.
Those pics look like me in the army and then me after getting out of the army.