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
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.
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.
Genuinely what the fuck do they think a dog being autistic would look like
Love me some capy blapies! Truly the coolest rodent of all time. Except for my friend’s pet rats, those guys are the coolest if not a little too pee happy.
I imagine most golden retrievers I’ve just are a little autistic. It’s why they are so dopey.
I had a cat that was clearly autistic.
I think that might be the default mode for cats.
What, how? They are very loving and emotional. The autistic people ive met are very intellectual and not very emotional… Very much living in their heads. But I have only met like… 3…or something. :)
But yeah, with my experience, I wouldnt put autistic people in the deep compassionate loving category. Maybe im wrong.
Just cause we don’t show it outwardly as often, doesn’t mean we autists aren’t very emotional. I think more so than most non autistic people. Remember it is a spectrum. For example I’m like gigantic and fairly well built (think Jason Witten but shaved head) and I’ll surprise (scare) some dates because I’m not afraid to cry on occasion. But it also may be my upbringing more than my diagnosis.
I need to meet more of you guys in my life. :)
We’re generally not “not very emotional” we just show it differently and less. But it could seem so if you can’t decipher the differentness.
Yeah another guy here said the same. Thank you!
I mean, dogs and cats can have mental illnesses or disorders, it’s just that they tend to be less impactful due to them being, well, pets. They have no responsibilities
From what I know, they can have traits reminiscent of human autism
Hell, with some dogs I’ve met, I would argue most dogs are autistic already😅
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.
I-can dogs even be autistic?
Let me go ask my dog if they’re autistic. They’re right over here, screaming about how it’s already 5:31 and I haven’t given them their 5:30 treat yet.
Honestly I think my dog might be. Very particular. Likes routine. Has sensory related triggers. Always finds the dark secluded corner of things get noisy in the house.
That’s a normal dog thing
That’s the joke
That’s a question that is very hard to answer. Dogs have a similar-ish brain structure but there’s a good chance you need a massive prefrontal cortex to have a chance of getting autism.
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Of course, it’s a cognitive spectrum that probably effects all mammals at least, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s far more prevalent than that
Children from international adoptions sometimes have something like an acquired autism - life is completely regulated and food and water and needed items are delivered and removed on schedules and the child has no impact on their environment. I had a couple of greyhounds that were trained to race as pups. They had some AU tendencies. I bet some other pups develop those to.
Dogs are great, but even if they were autistic would anyone even notice?
Yes, except just like human children, they are often just treated as difficult or badly behaved by adults who do not understand that they are autistic.
Got that dog in me
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
So It’s probably safe to say that even in that case there might not have been a correlation?
Yes.
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
Why is my country so stupid?
Capitalism.
some people didn’t like anyone who knew more than they did … The way things were going, if [they] wanted to throw stones at anyone who knew more than them, they’d soon have to throw them at the pigs
Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
There times when I see obvious disinformation attacking America, and I will immediately stand up for my country and call out the bullshit.
Then I see something like this, and it leaves me feeling like I just stood up for a family member I felt was being unfairly picked on, who in response immediately decided to shit his pants and light a cigarette while filling up his car with gas.
I never thought I’d see the day where someone accurately described my outlook. Thanks, I hate it
I never thought I’d see the day where someone accurately described my outlook. Thanks, I hate it
Socioeconomic circumstances. And failures therein.
Who could have tought that saving on education to
get back to the good old timesraise your slave class, would have the unintended side-effect of dismembering the fucking country they love so much.
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!
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
Wild that rabies doesn’t scare people, but imaginary dog autism does.
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.
oh no, my dog can solve a Fourier transform. RUN.
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!
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.
Yeah.
We’re stupid.
studies like these show Americans have a truly representative government now
And the award for most depressing comment of the day goes to Jhex. Ugh. I hate how accurate that statement is.
I agree… I hate my own comment
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
I always pick 1 when asked to try to balance it out.
it is a very random number. it’s also a very large small number.
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
