I read a news story about a guy who died from rabies after receiving a kidney transplant. Although nobody was aware when he died, the donor of the kidney had contracted rabies after being scratched by a skunk several weeks before he died and his organs were harvested.
I got curious about how the donor got scratched by the skunk, but instead only found this article from August, which informed me that the U.S. has a rabies outbreak, and has more deaths from rabies in the last year than several previous years…
Not sure if people were already talking about this outbreak, and I just missed it? It’s been a bit of a weird year, and there’s been a lot of crazy shit to keep up with.
Anyway, this is also how I ended up reading the sentence informing me some people are worried dogs are getting autism from vaccines.
Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows
Can we call it now? The usa is not a real nation that should be taken seriously.
We crossed that line well over a decade ago.
I guess this is one more reason to never travel to the states, I worry Canada and Mexico will see more rabid animals though.
And now I think I will get a rabies booster (I hope that is still a thing).
Do these people understand that rabies is 100% fatal?
erm akchually 99.9999% fatal
Jeanna Giese survived without the vaccine due to an experimental treatment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#After_onset
Note that that treatment has failed at all other times than this one
Even that case is highly contested as to what happened. It’s often debated that she might not have had rabies to begin with.
There’s actually been around 20 known rabies survivors. It’s a lot more survivable than you think! Of course 20×1 is still only 20, so I’ll still avoid petting any raccoons
So It’s probably safe to say that even in that case there might not have been a correlation?
Yes.
The brainworm won. And while Im not a fan of eugenics… I think america needs to do the rest of the world a solid and sterilize that 37% to protect the human race.
Fun fact: Rabies is pretty much the most-lethal disease ever. A diagnosis is an absolute death sentence, followed by an agonizing death.
Just because I’ve had so many people tell me “I didn’t need so many meds/a walker/ oxygen up my nose until I came to the hospital”, I want to point out that the diagnosis itself is not the death sentence. As the organ donor showed, even if no one knows you have rabies, rabies will kill you dead.
Solve it with enforcement. If they have to come out over a dog issue and the fucking thing don’t have a rabies vaccination, it gets put down. No exceptions. The dog doesn’t have any religious affiliation so that argument won’t work either.
That’s generally how it works if your dog or cat (or squirrel) bites someone. Unless you can provide proof of a current vaccination, the animal has to get tested for rabies. This involves getting a sample of brain tissue. For pet owners that seems excessive, but for someone who has seen a rabies infection first-hand, there is no animal valuable enough to skip that test
Today I learned that 37% of Americans are barely functional morons.
54% of us read at a 6th grade level. You do not hate your neighbors to the south nearly enough
Compare this percentage with how many are MAGA and you start to see a distinct pattern.
that tracks with election results and presidential approval ratings
Low ball estimate for sure
how esle do you explain Pedonald voted in twice?
It’s probably more like 37% of dog owners.
and at least 68% of Americans are cognitively impaired.
Is that before or after covid?
Wild that rabies doesn’t scare people, but imaginary dog autism does.
I had a hairdresser once that told me about her young daughter getting scratched by a raccoon. I asked if she took her to get the shots and she said “no, she’s fine”. We’re all doomed.
We humans are victims of our own success. Vaccines work so good at eradicating diseases that people haven’t been exposed to the horrors that we used to. My family has a story about someone loosely related who contracted rabies and was chained to a tree until they died a few weeks later. This was no more than a generation before me!
People really aren’t scared enough of diseases.
im calling bullshit on whoever told you that. im pretty sure ive heard that same story. also, rabies causes fear of water so theyd likely die of dehydration way sooner
Checking back in.
Rabies sufferers die from encephalopathic hemorrhaging way before dehydration. So I guess I’m not remembering the timeline accurately.
It’s a nervous infection, ascending paralysis until coma and death. Aversion to water is the least of the problems.
oooooo okay neat. rabies is fucking wild
and it cannot be treated if it takes infection.
Eh, maybe. But it served its purpose and scared the shit out of me. I’m curious if rabies sufferers will dehydrate themselves to the point of death. Another wiki hole, here I come!
People are far more scared of inconvenience than death.
Most people would rather put their pet down than have to care for them in some new way that requires money and attention, and this is what people who don’t understand autism think it is, like they will have to strap their dogs into a special chair and spoon-feed them.
Same with people. Most ignorant anti-vaxxers are far more terrified of being locked into caring for a disabled child than having a child die from a “natural” disease. And while they don’t consciously think this way, some layer of their brain has indeed weighed this out and formed their opinions.
I do genuinely wonder if some amount of vaccine skepticism comes from a place of just not wanting to get a shot.
Rabies is in my top three fears, maybe even number one. Just an absolutely awful way to go, scared, in pain, can’t drink water. I love water.
Good thing it’s extremely preventable thanks to modern medicine. We should all be so lucky that our greatest fear is 100% avoidable through easy life choices.
He used to scratch with the left foot but after the vaccine he does it with the right foot!
vaccinate your dog, everyone
Autistic dogs? You mean they will be more obsessed with catching that squirrel than normal?
No but they will have an entirely squirrel themed Magic deck.
Because of vaccinations, my dog has a pretty low IQ. She can’t even do simple arithmetic, she’s non verbal, and cannot maintain eye contact. So sad.
My dog is licking his butt on a regular basis. I blame vaccines.
My dog’s hair is going grey. I blame vaccines
Mine eats cat shit. Must’ve been the Tylenol I took during adoption.
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This is so stupid that it makes me think maybe the “great filter” (the reason we don’t see space-faring civilizations everywhere) is actually that life forms who evolved by fighting for survival and going through natural selection cannot psychologically handle a post-scarcity society. It’s like when the threats disappear everybody forgets they exist even if they are well documented historically.
Related: if you don’t know about how horrifying a disease is, go search for some articles and copypasta about it. Congrats on being one of today’s (un)lucky 10,000!
Hope you’re all ready. This ship is not going to correct course when the orange traitor dies.
Our problems go WAY deeper than that.
Even if that’s true.
Autism
Or
Rabies
What the actual fuck?
Have these people ever interacted with dogs? I’m pretty sure autism is their baseline.
I’m pretty sure autism is their baseline.
Unless it’s a Border Collie, and in that case it’s (probably pretty literal) OCD.
My dog enjoys chewing on rocks. But that’s the default setting for labs.
Why stop at having your children die of preventable diseases when you can also have your pets die from preventable diseases?
While possibly killing you as well mind you.
