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
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.
So It’s probably safe to say that even in that case there might not have been a correlation?
Yes.
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
Wild that rabies doesn’t scare people, but imaginary dog autism does.
oh no, my dog can solve a Fourier transform. RUN.
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.
Rabies is in my top three fears, maybe even number one.
Same. I went on a road trip one summer a few years ago, and we decided to take a long detour through the Appalachian trail for part of the drive. We had all the windows down and the sunroof open, just enjoying the cool fresh air bc it was too disgustingly hot everywhere else outside of the mountains to roll them down. Anyway, we were going down this really narrow back road, seeing like 1 or 2 other cars every 45 mins to an hour, and eventually got to a point where we had to drive through a really old narrow tunnel like this one:
My first thought was, what if a bat flies in the car lmao. I demanded we roll up all the windows and shut the sunroof before we went through, and my husband made fun of me and said I was being ridiculous. I probably was, but there’s way too many documented cases of people who were out in the wilderness, got a tiny bat scratch, didn’t even realize it or think twice about it, then weeks or months later died a slow horrible death because of rabies. Even if you spend your last days in a hospital there’s nothing they can really do by the time you’re showing symptom except try to make you comfortable (which is probably impossible unless they just place you into a medically induced coma).
I also worked with a girl that grew up in Vietnam and said there were multiple times she got bit by stray dogs, and had to get rabies shots when she was a kid. I grew up in the sticks always playing with stray cats and dogs, but never thought twice about it back then. Definitely wouldn’t be taking that risk now.
Anyway, tldr, some people seem to be under the impression a fear of encountering rabies is like a fear of someday encountering quicksand. I’ll take my chances being ridiculous and overly safe to avoid it. Especially after reading the article and learning we’ve now got a fucking rabies outbreak to worry about on top of everything else going on in the U.S.
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!
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.
He used to scratch with the left foot but after the vaccine he does it with the right foot!
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.
Regardless of how bizarre this is the implied message is “I’d rather see my kid die of a virus than have any autism.”
I think it’s that attitude with any neurodivergence or mental health related issue. You know, all the things that
doctors didn’t know about diagnosing“just didn’t exist” in the past.Like we saw the consequences of people struggling through life, not getting a diagnosis, and not understanding why life was so challenging. For example, my dad was dyslexic and my mom very likely had ADHD, but neither was ever diagnosed.
They just struggled constantly through school, had terrible self esteem, and when somebody told them to just give up and choose a different career path they just said ok, guess I’m just not cut out for this.
Then I got both, and my parents were ok with acknowledging the dyslexia bc it was pretty easy to diagnose.
The ADHD was a whole other story, and I was told by my own parents (who were tough on me because they just didn’t want me ending up like them) and most of my teachers, that I was just careless and lazy over and over. I started hating school when I was like 8, and barely even finished high school. When I got to college by the skin of my teeth, I found stuff that actually interested me, but I still struggled so much through college and grad school. For a very long time, I believed the reason everything was so so much harder for me than my peers was bc I was just dumb/not cut out for it.
I had to wait until I was in my 30s and had my own real job and insurance to even attempt to seek help and get an ADHD diagnosis, and even then it took a very long time, but I’m so glad I finally did it.
Maybe if we can keep society from further devolving, in a few generations we can also get people to understand that acknowledging neurodivergence and mental health in kids isn’t weakness, and doesn’t mean you have to accept some kind of dangerous magical sorcery. It just means understanding that people often thrive when you allow them to just be themselves, and treat them like individuals with their own strengths, weaknesses, and unique skills.
Yeah.
We’re stupid.
People don’t want to give their dog heart worm/flea protection because they are worried it leads to seizures.
I had to explain why they should continue to do it so many times on Facebook. The benefits out way the risk by such a great magnitude that it should be a no-brainer.
How can you tell a dog with autism from a dog that does not have it?
It’s wagging its tail and it’s a good boy.
My dog’s sister died at age two or three because the owner didn’t vaccinate her. I think she died of kennel cough.
Just tossing this out here as a PSA, dogs can still get kennel cough even after being vaccinated. It’s like the flu vaccine in humans - sometimes the strain that goes around isn’t the one vaccinated for. I had two dogs end up with it and both were fully current on all vaccines. They got it from daycare where an outbreak occurred and our older dog brought it home to the puppy. All dogs there are required to show proof of current vaccines to go so it was just an unfortunate year for the vaccine. Fortunately my dogs got over it with meds and rest for a couple of weeks. Sorry about your sisters dog, that’s heartbreaking.
Sorry about your sisters dog, that’s heartbreaking.
Not my sister’s dog, my dog’s sister / littermate but yeah still not great.
Yes, just like most things you vaccinate against it’s possible to have a breakthrough infection, but the immune system is still more equipped to fight it after vaccination.
This guy just didn’t vaccinate her at all. Vaccination can be the difference between having a breakthrough infection and getting better in a couple of weeks and dying from or being permanently disabled by a disease.
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.
37 percent of Americans are irredeemably stupid. I see that number over and over for the stupidest shit.
I was just going to say that. I think in every country 36 or 37% will just believe random crazy shit and/or be fucking with the poll taker.
It sounds like a lot, but aren’t IQ scores based on averages or means? That’s about right then on stupid.
But not in every country are the majority of the lawmakers from that sample size.
lol weird: 37% rule / optimal stopping problem
that doesn’t seem related but it sure is interesting that it’s the same number
yeah, you’re right. I just remembered the 37% thing and felt compelled to share.
37 is also a common number used by “magicians” to when they try to guess the “random number” you’re thinking of because for some reason related to psychology, we think it is “more random” than other numbers between 1 and 100, on average. I don’t have the energy to cite this one right now tho lol
Here’s a great exposition on 37.
lmao this was awesome thank you for sharing
it is a very random number. it’s also a very large small number.
I always pick 1 when asked to try to balance it out.
Dumbest nation on earth.
Our dog is absolutely autistic, and we could care less. His allergies on the other hand are a PITA.
Why do you think it’s autism? One of my cats is mentally “special” as the vet told me after asking some questions. She couldn’t get any more specific. He’s a great cat and very happy.
I’m half joking, but there’s a decent bit of autism in our house, and he fits in pretty well. He gets overstimulated pretty easy, exhibits a lot of self-soothing behavior, and doesn’t take cues well at all.
Even if that’s true.
Autism
Or
Rabies
What the actual fuck?
As with any statistic, 25-35% of people are completely brain dead or horrible people.
Wait, so should one not been feeding dogs Tylenol this whole time, trying to make super dogs? Asking for a friend…
It’s not safe to give dogs Tylenol, but if it was I would say you should go ahead and corner the market.
We don’t need to fear vaccines anymore. All we can do is accept them even if we’re opposed to them because Bill Gates is putting vaccines in all of our lettuce & farm produce from all the farms he bought up.
The microchips attach inside your stomach and control your behavior
