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Wild that rabies doesnβt scare people, but imaginary dog autism does.
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.
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.
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!
oh no, my dog can solve a Fourier transform. RUN.