I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐
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
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
it is a very random number. it's also a very large small number.
Here's a great exposition on 37.
https://youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98
lmao this was awesome thank you for sharing
I always pick 1 when asked to try to balance it out.
Wild that rabies doesn’t 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!
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.
My dog is afraid of trains which is occasionally inconvenient for traveling somewhere far as we live car free.
If I had just paired his vaccines with Tylenol he would have instead been able to identify the year and model of every locamotive 🚂 and seek them out like he does now with french fries. 🍟
The issue is that he can identify the year and model of every locomotive because of the vaccine induced autism, and this terrifies him because he is a dog and shouldn't be able to.
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.
Mine eats cat shit. Must've been the Tylenol I took during adoption.
My dog's hair is going grey. I blame vaccines
This is beyond stupid. Not least of which is because all dogs are already basicslly austistic toddlers when they're perfectly healthy.
And it's what makes them so fucking awesome.
No judgment. No bullshit. Just our best friend, here for a good time, but unfortunately not a long time. We could learn a lot from them.
this is slander, everyone knows dogs have ADHD.
It's cats that are autistic
Genuinely what the fuck do they think a dog being autistic would look like
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!
"All Cats Are On The Autism Spectrum"
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 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😅
I imagine most golden retrievers I’ve just are a little autistic. It’s why they are so dopey.
Today I learned that 37% of Americans are barely functional morons.
"There was supposed to be a Venn diagram but all I see is one circle"
Low ball estimate for sure
that tracks with election results and presidential approval ratings
how else do you explain Pedonald voted in twice?
54% of us read at a 6th grade level. You do not hate your neighbors to the south nearly enough
It's probably more like 37% of dog owners.
and at least 68% of Americans are cognitively impaired.
Is that before or after covid?
People that dumb should have neither dogs nor kids.
They can vote though...
That is part of the problem, yes.
Or instead of raising the voting question (also known as non-democracy, only-whites-can-vote etc), maybe better agree on the importance of accessible education. Such as, a well funded school system, free or cheap non-corporate universities etc.
Yeah that all would be great but people are uneducated -> regressive populists get voted in -> cut education because rhey want people dumb to vote for them -> repeat cycle.
So you're not? OK, as you say.
I'm not subscribing to such statements, personally. I see varying levels of education around, and I see my job as educating when I can, learning when I can.
Purposely misreading someone else's comment is not the way to proclaim you're among the educated...
I'm not. As I said, I think people have varying degrees of education. I'm not separating between "us" and "them" in terms of education. I don't make generalised statements of what happens on a global scale without good research into the subject either.
But simple things such as "we need to make education a social priority" is within my reach.
I get his meaning. I don't see how you don't just because he forgot one word.
So pedantic.
Way to mischaracterise. I never claimed anything about myself. Bu I do know one thing. I would not vote for people who campaign on reducing education access.
My main point was the negative feedback loop. If you have enough people uneducated to get into power people who slash education budgets, it makes it very hard to restore those and make education more accessible.
Fully agree on this one 🤝
The feedback loop is real and powerful
some people own dogs and cat as a prop or accesory to thier lifestyle, and when they get to a pet groomer, they get ratchety when they are told they arnt taking care of thier pets(something simple that can be done at home), often times its rich people and upper middle class
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.
Why is my country so stupid?
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
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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.Capitalism.
Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
As with any statistic, 25-35% of people are completely brain dead or horrible people.
Autistic dogs? You mean they will be more obsessed with catching that squirrel than normal?
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.
My dog enjoys chewing on rocks. But that's the default setting for labs.
I just want to know what they put in the water in America to make everyone fight eachother... Who cares about autism in that context... :)
Even though i know its about capitalism and people are probably stressed to death trying to survive in that shitty country.
Facebook.
It’s Facebook in the water.
Also, watch a Fox News broadcast for a bit. Then you will understand.
I watch it when I want to really lose my hope in the future for humanity. That feeling of frustration watching those people... Very interesting.
I guess its better to feel sympathy. Because I know each person is on their own little journey here. But its just so primitive. :)
I picked up a pressure cleaner and green enamel sink on the Facebook marketplace. After moving the sink, which weighed every bit of 100 lbs.!, I was a little winded and he invited me inside for a cup of tea, I asked for water cause I'm caffeine sensitive. This dude had fox news playing on his TV in the living room. And the only thing I could think was "you watch this in your spare time? That's a pretty fucking sick sad world vibe that I don't understand."
Of course I didn't say anything at that moment cause I'm not suicidal, but these people seriously live in a separate reality where anger is desirable.
Side note, an ex from college reposted a pro trump picture the other day and it just fucking broke me cause I know she really is fucking smart! Maybe I'm just not cut out to be a human.
Its very frustrating to watch. :) I used to react with anger to all this but now im just thinking its where those people need to be to get the experiences they need.
It helps if you see life as some kind of school with a purpose for everybody. I dont know if it is. But it helps to see it that way.
So if we destroy Meta data centers, we can remove the Facebook from the water?
Honestly, the mental health and cognition of America would significantly improve, yes.
It's a healthy dose of 1:1 lead (Pb) and misinformation. We call it fight water™️
Fluoride
/S
I know you're joking but I always gotta espouse the honors of that fucking element. In it's purest form can rapidly oxidize fuck all anything! And yet helps form a crystalline structure in our enamel!
The reason we started putting fluoride in tap water is that dentists noticed people drinking well water had abnormally strong teeth because the rocks were leeching it into the water. This had the unfortunate side effect of turning their teeth brown. So some scientists and health experts found the lowest concentration that would super charge our enamel and not turn our teeth brown.
Fluoride is fucking awesome!
I havent used flouride toothpaste in 15 years and I have really good teeth. I know its sample of one and all that, but I stand by my decision to not use it. Works well for me.
Calm down, no one is going to steal your precious bodily fluids.
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
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.
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).
I want to meet an autistic dog.
Mine demands a stable routine, sometimes makes a ton of noise, only to retreat if anything else makes similar noise, is super smart, but forgetful. Very sensitive to emotions. Overall a lovely dog, but this might get her a diagnosis. (Not a professional, just have a dog)
Just in case anybody didn't read the article and doesn't already know: Wild animals infected with rabies aren't just the stereotypical raging aggressive terror beasts you see in the media, they can also be super friendly and usually docile.
Obviously the best advice is just to leave wild animals alone and keep your distance. However, if you see a feral or wild animal behaving in an uncharacteristic way, added caution is needed. This includes things like seeing traditionally nocturnal animals like skunks and raccoons out and about during the daytime or having them be unusually friendly / fearless / docile to the point where they don't retreat and may even come up to investigate you. It doesn't mean that they are infected with rabies, but that's definitely a potential symptom of rabies (but can also be a sign of other infectious diseases that should activate your spidey senses).
You are not a Disney princess and
CinderellaSnow White is not a realistic presentation of how healthy wild animals act.Hey, that hurts!
For you, I'll make an exception.
OwO
And that's where you stop reading
skunks actually have a higher rate outside of dogs of being infected by rabies, only thing that matches that is BATS and raccoons. possum has the lowest chances, due to them being a marsupial and a lower body temp, and different physiology
I-can dogs even be autistic?
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
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.
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.
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.
The treatment for rabies is a vaccine so I hope these people stick to their beliefs and if they get infected they refuse the vaccine. The fatality rate for rabies is 100%.
Just left a comment about this. People really have gotten too comfortable with modernity and its ivory walls. We really need to show more idiots videos of people suffering from preventable diseases a la "red pavement" from driver's ed.
My fellow Americans, your government has let you down. They've let us all down. So please allow me to address something they somehow repeatedly fail to address.
I understand your hesitation to trust the American healthcare system. God knows it would be an absolute lie to say your health is always being prioritized before profits. However, this is a fault of the system itself, not the science behind the medicine. The fact that we have a broken system, and the fact that your understandable mistrust has been misdirected towards science is the fault of our politicians and their greed.
Everyone deserves to be healthy and everyone deserves access to the medical care that they need. I can't fix a broken system, but I can swear to you on a stack of bibles, vaccines will not give you, your children, or your dog autism. Please vaccinate and help stop the spread of preventable diseases. God bless you and God bless the United States of America. ❤️
Dumbest nation on earth.
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.
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.
They fear autism from vaccines so much that they became retarded instead.
Let's be real. This is the reason Conservatives and anti vaxxers fear autism.
Is he even autistic?
Everything about how he presents himself screams so.
There's practicially nothing about him that 'screams' autistic. It's a wide spectrum, so it may be different for each person, and may show different signs. Still, this dipshit fits almost none of that.
Unless by 'autistic' you simply mean 'retarded', then no. He does not appear to be autistic.
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.
"Stupidity is not a right..."
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.
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!
DELCO MENTIONED
(haha fuck i am so glad i left that shithole)
Roughly corresponding to the bottom third of the IQ spectrum, with an assortment of "below average" folks thrown in for good measure.
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.
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
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.
Fun fact: Rabies is pretty much the most-lethal disease ever. A diagnosis is an absolute death sentence, followed by an agonizing death.
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.
That's actually pretty wise, what if your then autistic dog outsmarts you now thanks to their autism? /s
Listen Doc, yesterday I tried to get my dog to drink some whiskey and get on the roof with an aluminum baseball bat during a lightening storm, so we could go Back to the Future, but he just kept running away. Clearly, whatever was in that vaccine you gave him has made him autistic.
Yeah can't have that
George Carlin taught me about those people in the 90s.
vaccinate your dog, everyone
Didn't foresee this as a consequence to the rise of the antivax conspiracy. Sure I knew we'd be in trouble to reach herd immunity for the next epidemic/pandemic, but now we have to worry about rabbies in pets too. And what's next? Antivax farmers refusing to vaccinate their cattle?
Whoa! I was gonna ask which dogs would be more likely to have autism if that were possible. Instead, after some quick research it turns out there is a controversial and debated analog to autism in dogs termed CDB (canine dysfunctional behavior) that can include symptoms such as repetitive/compulsive behaviors, social challenges, heightened sensory sensitivities, and difficulty with changes in routine.
Bull terriers apparently are the breed which exhibit the most CDB-like symptoms. However, the breeds that are recommended to match with autistic humans are ones that are more predictable, gentle, calm, and friendly (e.g. labs, goldens, etc).
So we (autistics) are just considered stupid. Great.
That is not at all entailed by my comment.
Controversial and debated; IE, some duechebag propositioned this whole concept, and since he's rich and white and old, it's gotten a bit of traction, and he absolutely does think autistic folks are stupid, But! The vast majority of anyone in the field with two functioning brain cells to rub together know he's full of shit and are working on refuting him, because the aforementioned class he's in means he didn't get immediately laughed out of the room or simply blatantly ignored like he should've been.
Like any of the abysmal drivel that falls out of jordan peterson's mouth
I feel for the dogs, but we're better off if those people died from preventable disease. so let them make their choices
Hopefully just survivors of the lead epidemic.
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.
Got that dog in me
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
Yeah.
We're stupid.
Does anybody have an idea about how to spread enough knowledge that people can be trusted again to vote in their best interest?
Education, education, education
Did you mean indoctrination, indoctrination, indoctrination?
There's a reason dictators undermine education every time, educated people are much harder to deceive/control
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.
Data isn't always representative of reality
Rabies seems kinda tame compared to everything else we're being swamped with. We probably ALL missed hearing about it.
Rabies is not tame. If you get the vaccine for it, you're golden (near perfect efficacy, and you can even get it shortly after contracting rabies because rabies works so slowly).
But as soon as you start showing symptoms, you're dead. Rabies is able to cross the blood brain barrier, but the vaccine for it is not. Once you're showing symptoms, the death rate is 100% (60k die from rabies annually, less than 50 have ever survived after showing symptoms).
99.99% There was that 1 girl that somehow managed to survive thanks to a 2 month induced coma.
The Milwaukee Protocol is not effective.
The death rate rounds to 100%, not 99.99%, and it's not even remotely close (as noted in the parentheses of my original comment).
Yes, but I was being a bit glib, in the context of American national insanity. There is so much else evil crap going on, which is equally fatal to rabies...caribbean boat bombings, withdrawal of food aid from starving people, ICE kidnappings to foreign violent prisons, even the "advice" your own CDC is giving now. Rabies seems fun and light.....
I figured, but I wanted to make sure anybody who was unfamiliar with how dangerous rabies is didn't come away with the wrong idea.
Good call. I apologize if it seems I trivialized it. The fact that we so many have more things to worry about as time goes on, is a shitty reflection of our governments failing us.