Chiggers are common in Florida too. You can take precautions for chiggers too. Don’t forget to live. You can always find something to fear.

Lay out the strips of bacon on the parchment paper and than fold the extra over the top of the bacon and then the bacon will not stick to the vacuum bag on either side. You could even use the cutting board idea as something stiff to slide it into the bag with and then pull the cutting board out using it like a pizza peal. The parchment paper will keep the bacon from sticking and when vacuume seal it visually almost completely disappears.