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For the âessentialâ service workers
Not everyone gets to quarantine. Not everyone has a WFH job.
Some people are running the âessentialâ stores that people come to every day to browse idly because âeverywhere else is closed!â Some people are throwing up stock of bleach and TP and canned food only to turn around and see the stock has vanished behind them.
Some people are stuck working for companies with no paid sick leave, or they are offered paid sick leave⊠if you get diagnosed with covid-19. And none of us can even get tested in most states even if we show symptoms due to the draconian guidelines on who gets a test.
Some of us are immunocompromised or live with elderly family and are fucking terrified of carrying covid home with us.
Some of us are âluckyâ and are getting increased wages during this period. But itâs up in the air if that makes this shit worth it, and most of us donât get that.
Regardless, I want to establish one thing: No one who works retail asked to be âessentialâ services. And none of us were trained for this and none of us are being paid enough for this.
Personally, I have enjoyed my job up until covid happened because Iâm an incredibly anxious person, and my store was a quiet one, and I was good at my job. It was a calm environment to work in, and I was happy to find it.
Now, Iâm having repeated crying jags in the stock room and looking up how to qualify for unemployment and not seeing a way out. I handle the money for the store deposit almost every night, and I intimately know my store is making at minimum 4x usual profit and some days 6x or 7x more.
My point in this post is that I know Iâm not alone. I have two friends in similar straits who are also on the verge of breaking down. We canât sustain this.
The rallying cry of âpaid sick leaveâ doesnât mean shit if it comes with the caveat that you have to test positive for a virus you canât get tested for. And while I am trying very hard to be sympathetic to the people who are isolating, who are lonely, who are struggling, I feel like âessentialâ workers are being thrown in the woodchipper.
And it becomes very hard to hold onto that sympathy when people just! come into our stores! to walk around! Maybe if fewer people did that, maybe if my store stopped making astronomical amounts of money, weâd close for a few days. But nope.
Please start yelling loudly for hazard pay for essential workers. Please start yelling for testing for everyone so we can fucking go home. Please stop talking about how âbraveâ we are and help us.
Thatâs all. This is a post for my fellow low wage workers who woke up one day and found out theyâre essential staff, retail or EMTs or gas station workers or whoever you are. This is bullshit and weâre tired and we need help. Before we all burn out.
This pandemic is really proving that government has the means to solve all problems they just choose not to
FUCKING AMEN!
If you think it's an accident that ICE is transporting migrant kids through a COVID-19 hub, here's a reminder--Anne Frank didn't die in a gas chamber. She died of a treatable disease, while incarcerated in a concentration camp and being denied adequate medical care.
Wow...
Theyâre doing it in hopes the children get infected so the nazis republicans can further dehumanize them and use it as evidence that hitler trump was right to call them diseased. And if the children die, then problem solved.
Flattening The Curve
Tumblr has a feature hidden in their âLabsâ, called âReblog Graphsâ. Itâs a neat little thing that lets you see how influential you are, and also which blogs have large followings. Itâs a great way to see why your post from three years ago is suddenly getting a thousand notes a day, too.
This is a graph of a couple hundred reblogs from a recent post somebody made.
The original post is the orange dot. Iâm the purple dot one generation away. You can see how many people reblogged from me, but my following isnât nearly as big as that large dot off to the right.
Only four people reblogged it from me, while that other person had a cluster of around a dozen. But you can see that my overall influence was greater. Their cluster died out quickly, while mine kept going and going.
You could say this post went viral.
Thatâs what Iâm actually here to talk about todayâŠ
Letâs go back a slide and change the caption.
Now this isnât a blog post weâre talking about, this is, say, a novel coronavirus that no one is immune to or something like that. Now weâre not talking about reblogs, weâre talking about infections.
I know this Patient Zero, theyâre a friend of mine. We get together with another friend, whose sister works in a nursing home.
So now Iâm infected. And soâs that other friend, whose sister works in the nursing home.
And I infect four other people.
Itâs just a slight cough, and I feel silly for staying home over just a slight cough, so I go into work. Same goes for that sister who works in the nursing home.
It is week 1 of the pandemic.
Itâs flu season, so none of my coworkers think twice about this fever and cough that they now have. Meanwhile, over at the nursing home, people start noticing that the flu is especially bad this year.
It is week 2 of the pandemic.
The nursing home realizes they have a huge problem. EMTs are taking several people to the hospital with trouble breathing every day. Two have died. And now Fire Station 27, the one near the nursing home, has several people who are sick.
Meanwhile, Iâm feeling fine, and so are my coworkers who had the flu right after me.
And so onâŠ
It is now week 9 of the pandemic.
Each of these circles represents another week in the spread of the virus, with more and more people infected. You can see that the nursing home and the fire station in the upper right were contained by week 3, because they quarantined and stopped it. That outbreak made the news. But what didnât make the news were all the people in the lower left, the ones who continue to spread it to one or two, maybe three people. Once in a while, a large cluster flares up, but for the most part, itâs silent.
What you might not see is how much of this graph rolls back up to me and my actions.
Fully 2/3 of the reblogs cases are the product of my infection. If you take me out of the picture, itâs not just those four people I infected that donât get it. Itâs the 7 people they infected. And the people they infected. And the people they infected.
Without me, it is over in Week 5. My single infection in week 1 ended up causing this to run for another month. If Iâd stayed home that day instead of reblogging going to the office, it wouldâve made a huge difference. It doesnât really matter who patient zero was, every person on this graph is essentially patient zero of their own outbreak.
This is why staying home when sick matters. This is why hand-washing matters. This is why social distancing matters. This is why schools are closed and why large companies are having people work from home and why March Madness is canceled.
Because just one infection matters.
[ID: Kate on Twitter @KateAndCRPS âNow that there is coronavirus there are so many accommodations being made so people can work/study remotely. Why is this so hard to do when disabled people need this to participate in society? If the world can give #AccessibilityForAbleds give it to disabled people too.â]
[ID: Comment by @GlindaTheGolden âWent off on a coworker for saying âit's because the virus is a legitimate issueâ as if a disability isn't.â]
If you have a cat please reblog this with its name please and thank you
Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry
How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons.
For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.
What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy.
In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without.
State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.
i hate aspects of this site but iâm also way less insensitive, ignorant, and prejudiced because of the time iâve spent here. i came here for humor and ended up exposed to minority voices & POVs I wasnât even looking for.Â
which was awesome, bc while most of us know we should be learning these things, most of us donât associate it with something weâd spend our leisure time pursuing & enjoying. minority representation in media, in fun and popular media that people want to view, is so important for exactly this reason.Â
anyway, curate your online experience. make it fun, make it inclusive, fill in your blind spots & unlearn your prejudices while laughing off your ass. Â
this site made me sympathetic to pigeons.
fringe benefits
Do businesses have the right to tell them theyâre not allowed to enter with guns? Because if I see that, Iâm leaving the restaurant, club, store, whatever - without paying.
I remember a time, seems like back when people had sense, when just seeing somebody get out of their car in the parking lot with this type of weapon, automatically generated MULTIPLE 911 calls.
Because nobody knew what this person might be up to.
The general assumption, back then, was; if somebodies carrying a gun like this, their going to USE it. Today? People have gotten used to the idea that these idiots might be making some kind of, â2nd Amdment Political Statementâ. Now it seems people are reluctant to call, willing to wait until/if shooting starts. Far too little. WAY too late.
No one but the man carrying this gun KNOWS WHAT HIS INTENTIONS ARE. No one CAN KNOW why heâs brought this Assault Rifle into a public space full of unwary and likely defenseless people. Until he either walks out of the shop w/o incident OR he unslings that gun and opens fire. We donât know. We CANâT know. Anyone aware of OTHER PEOPLE beyond THEMSELVES/Other peoples INTERESTS (up to and including NOT getting shot)? Anyone with any sense of Civic Responsibility, Social Boundaries, or Public Safety? Would. Not. Do. This. So you can already assume their judgement is impaired. DO NOT WAIT to find out how deep that impairment extends. The people who do this sort of thing have no interest/concern for YOUR safety, so youâre going to have to look after it yourself. Leave the establishment immediately- directly, donât wait for the Cheque or your order to arrive. JUST. LEAVE. AND-
CALL
911
Call even if you know other people have done/are doing the same. Practice YOUR Civic Duty by notifying Authorities of a potentially EXTREMELY dangerous, public, situation, even if it overwhelms their call centers/dispatch. Donât let Dispatch blow you off with âWe already know/we know this guy/nothing we can do, itâs his Rightâ You have a right to safety in a public spaces, You have NO IDEA what he intends, AND ITâS THEIR JOB TO ENFORCE/INSURE PUBLIC SAFETY. âGit yo ass down here and MANAGE this situation!!!â
Worried about walking out on your check? Donât be. Again, you are CONCERNED FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY. In Open Carry States, business establishments can and do post signage stipulating that guns are NOT ALLOWED on premise. Those that do post this signage will understand why you left. Those that donât? After calling 911, contact the store or itâs Franchise Office and ask WHY they donât. Inform them that they can wait for you to come back & settle up AFTER this public threat has left the area. OR they can just deal with the loss of revenue from people leaving without paying BECAUSE THEY ALLOWED A MAN WITH AN ASSAULT RIFLE TO FREELY ENTER THEIR STORE. Suggest that they might wanna take any revenue loss up with HIM.
If this became the Standard Response to this kind of irresponsible and, frankly, infantile behavior? How long do you think it will go on before SOMBODY, Retailers, Police, Legislatetors, do SOMETHING about it?
And itâs WAY past time that something was.
people will call the cops on a black kid washing his parents car in front of his own house (potentially putting that kid in a life threatening situation) and then turn around to question whether or not its okay to call the cops on a man with a fucking assault rifle walking in a store for a fucking pretzel (potentially saving multiple people from a life threatening situation) like why are our priorities so fucking skewed in america
So the other day a guy walking into a Walmart I routinely shop at (no, I wasnt there at the time. Wasnt even in the same state) dressed like this. Gun. 100 rounds. Protective vest. As an âexperiment.â No. Screw that. Thatâs a flat-out threat. I donât care that it was an open carry state.
Republicans want to ask about citizenship on the census. Now we know it is to undermine âone person, one vote.â
* Highest recommendation. *
This is crucially important information.
Of many articles about the documents revealing Republiconsâ deliberate engineering of white supremacy in America, and the lies used as cover, this article is so far the most comprehensive.
⣠Okay, so this may have come across your feed in the past couple of day, but did you take it seriously? â The Daily Beast has presented us with clear-cut proof here, delineating an abuse-of-power narrative we could only have imagined in the past.
Every progressive voter in the U.S. should be fully aware of the details contained in this piece. â So, Iâm asking: Whereâs the discussion? Whereâs the energy? â Â Most often, revelations of scandal to this degree are only the fodder of conspiracy theorists, but THIS IS IRL !!!
Republicans are ramping up to foist a living, breathing 10-year-long horror upon our democracy that criminally undermines your rightful vote. Their efforts represent an all-new flavor of ELECTION STEALING like those weâve formerly witnessed taking place in plain sight in the state of Georgia, but instead this scheme works under the surface and is writ large for the entire country!
STOP SCROLLING â Â CLICK. THE. LINK. â READ THIS NOW !!
⣠And PLEASE, letâs get some TRACTION on this piece!
sorry if iâm being a party pooper but because rabies is apparently the new joke on here ??? please remember that rabies has an almost 100% fatality rate after symptoms develop so if youâre bitten or scratched by an animal that you arenât 100% sure is vaccinated then GO TO A DOCTOR. itâs not a joke. really.Â
Youâre being kind when you say âalmost 100% fatalityâ. What people need to hear is: if you get to develop rabies symptoms, youâre dead. If you get heavy treatment after developping symptoms, you still need a miracle. Like, a real miracle, you should enter some religion if you escape that.
ALSO, I donât want people feeling confident about petting stray/wild animals because thereâs a vaccine available, either. Iâll explain why from my own experience (Iâm not a doctor).
I got bitten by a wild tamarin once, on the pulp of my index finger. It drew blood, there are many wild animals in the area (tamarins, possums, bats, foxes) and it isnât that uncommon to hear about 1 or 2 rabies cases every now and again (a puppy we gave to a friend got it, for instance), so I went to an ambulatory immediately.
Because I was bitten in an ultrasensitive area, I needed fast treatment. But it was also a small area, so the usual thing they do - inject the vaccine in the place - wasnât a choice. They told me theyâd divide the shot in 5 small ones, and inject me all over my body, so the antidote would get to my entire system fast.
Please stop for a moment and think that the disease is so worrysome that theyâd rather needle me all over than to give me one shot and wait until it spread through my system.
Then they said that, okay, but there was a catch first. I needed to take an antiallergic shot. âWhy?â âBecause the virus is devastating, and as the vaccine is made from it, but weakened (like almost every vaccine) it will still create a reaction, and itâs a strong one, and itâs veru common for people to have strong allergic reactions to it.â YOU HAVE TO TAKE AN ANTIALLERGIC SHOT IN ORDER TO TAKE THE VACCINE COZ THE VACCINE COULD POTENTIALLY MAKE YOU REALLY SICK
ALSO IT WASNâT JUST âA LITTLE ANTIALLERGIC SHOTâ
IT WAS ONE OF THESE FUCKERS HERE.
It was OBVIOUSLY dripped in my body and not injected because HAHAHAHA. Truth be told I was an adult already and Iâm tall so I have a lot of mass but STILL.
So after I had taken the antiallegic and was starting to feel drowsy (as a side effect of it) the doctor came with the 5 shots.
- One in each buttock
- One in each thigh
- One in my left arm
They all stung like a bitch and I usually donât care about shots.
âOkay so can I go home now?â
âNo, we have to keep you under observation for 2h so weâre SURE the vaccine wonât give you any reaction.â
BINCH I WAS GIVEN A BUTTLOAD OF MEDICINE BUT THERE WAS STILL A RISK.
I slept through the two hours and then was liberated to go home. My legs, butt, and left arm hurt all over, like I had been punched there, for a few days. I also had a fever (not feverish, a fever)
BUT DID YOU THINK IT WAS OVER?
WRONG!!!
I had to take four reinforcement shots in the next month, one a week, so I could be positively be considered immunized. Every time I took a shot, my arm would swell and hurt like itâd been hit, and when night came Iâd have a fever. Because thatâs how fucking strong the vaccine is, BECAUSE THATâS HOW VICIOUS THE VIRUS IS.
So yeah. DO NOT PUT YOURSELF IN RISK, GODDAMNIT. Rabies is a rare condition all over, THANK GOD, and 1 confirmed case can be already considered a surge and a reason for mass campaigning, AND FOR A REASON.
If you like messing with stray/wild animals, donât go picking them up and be extra careful. Or just, like, DONâT - call a vet or an authority that can handle them safely.
I must add that I live in a country with universal healthcare, so I didnât pay a single penny for my treatment. Is this your reality? If not, ONE MORE REASON TO NOT FUCKING PLAY WITH THIS SHIT.
Rabies is 100% lethal. Period. If you are scratched or bitten by an animal youâre not positive is vaccinated, you need to find treatment NOW. And probably go through all that shit Iâve been through (also if you are immunosupressed? I DONâT KNOW WHATâD HAPPEN)
Stay safe and donât be stupid ffs
Guys, I know this isnât art nor anything like that, but Iâve been hearing about this rabies thing and ???? Look I trust none of you would risk yourselves like this, but maybe you can educate someone through my experience and stuff.
Also rabies does not necessarily cause frothing-at-the-mouth aggression in animals. Docility is also a very common symptom so any wild animal that is âfriendlyâ or âlikes to be petâ is suspect. Literally any wild animal is a vector.
Finally, you donât need to be bitten. All you need is to come into contact with an infected animalâs bodily fluids through a cut that maybe you didnât notice when you were handling it when it drooled on you.
Never touch a wild animal.
Infection with the rabies virus progresses through three distinct stages.
Prodromal: Stage One. Marked by altered behavioral patterns. âDocilityâ and âlikes to be petâ are very common in the prodromal stage. Usually lasts 1-3 days. An animal in this stage carries virus bodies in its saliva and is infectious.
Excitative: Stage Two. Also called âfuriousâ rabies. This is what everyone thinks rabies isâhyperreacting to stimuli and biting everything. Excessive salivation occurs. Animals in this stage also exhibit hydrophobia or the fear of water; they cannot drink (swallowing causes painful spasms of the throat muscles), and will panic if shown water. Usually lasts 3-4 days before rapidly progressing into the next stage.
Paralytic: Stage Three. Also called âdumbâ rabies. As the infection runs its course, the virus starts degrading the nervous system. Limbs begin to fail; animals in this stage will often limp or drag their haunches behind them. If the animal has survived all this way, death will usually come through respiratory arrest: Their diaphragm becomes paralyzed and they stop breathing.
And to add onto the above, saliva isnât the only infectious fluid. Brain matter is, too. If, somehow, you find yourself in possession of a firearm and faced with a rabid animal, do not go for a head shot. If you do, you will aerosolize the brain matter and effectively create a cloud of infectious material. Breathe it in, and youâll give yourself an infection.
When I worked in wildlife rehabilitation, I actually did see a rabid animal in person, and it remains one of the most terrifying experiences of my life, because I was literally looking death in the eyes.
A pair of well-intentioned women brought us a raccoon that they thought had been hit by a car. They had found it on the side of the road, dragging its hind legs. They managedâsomehowâto get it into a cat carrier and brought it to us.Â
As they brought it in, I remember how eerily silent it was. Normal raccoons chatter almost constantly. They fidget. They bump around. They purr and mumble and make little grabby-hands at everything. Even when theyâre in pain, and especially when theyâre stressed. But this one wasnât moving around inside the carrier, and it wasnât making a sound.
The clinic director also noticed this, and he asked in a calm but urgent voice for the women to hand the carrier to him. He took it to the exam room and set it on the table while they filled out some forms in the next room. I took a step towards the carrier, to look at our new patient, and without turning around, he told me, âGo to the other side of the room, and stay there.â
He took a small penlight out of the drawer and shone it briefly into the carrier, then sighed. âBear, if you want to come look at this, you can put on a mask,â he said. âItâs really pretty neat, but I know youâre not vaccinated and I donât want to take any chances.âÂ
And at that point, I knew exactly what we were dealing with, and I knew that this would be the closest I had ever been to certain death. So I grabbed a respirator from the table and put it on, and held my breath for good measure as I approached the table. The clinic director pointed where I should stand, well back from the carrier door. He shone the light inside again, and I saw two brilliant flashes of emerald greenâthe most vivid, unnatural eyeshine I had ever seen.Â
âI donât know why it does it,â the director murmured, âbut it turns their eyes green.â
âWhat does?â one of the women asked, with uncanny, unintentionally dramatic timing, as she poked her head around the corner.
âRabies,â the director said. âThe raccoon is rabid. Did it bite either of you, or even lick you?â They told us no, said they had even used leather garden gloves when they herded it into the carrier. He told them to throw away the gloves as soon as possible, and steam-clean the upholstery in their car. They asked how they should clean the cat carrier; they wanted it back and couldnât be convinced otherwise, so he told them to soak it in just barely diluted bleach.
But before we could give them the carrier back, we had to remove the raccoon. The rabid raccoon.
The clinic director readied a syringe with tranquilizers and attached it to the end of a short pole. I donât remember how it was rigged exactlyâwhether he had a way to push down the plunger or if the needle would inject with pressureâbut all he would have to do was stick the animal to inject it. And so, after sending me and the women back to the other side of the room, he made his fist jab.
He missed the raccoon.
The sound that that animal made on being brushed by the pole can only be described as a roar. It was throaty and ragged and ungodly loud. It was not a sound that a raccoon should ever make. Iâm convinced it was a sound that a raccoon physically could not make.Â
It thrashed inside the carrier, sending it tipping from side to side. Its claws clattered against the walls. It bellowed that throaty, rasping sound again. It was absolutely frenzied, and I was genuinely scared that it would break loose from inside those plastic walls.Â
Somehow, the clinic director kept his calm, and as the raccoon jolted around inside the cat carrier, he moved in with the syringe again, and this time, he hit it. He emptied the syringe into its body and withdrew the pole.
And then we waited.
We waited for those awful screams, that horrible thrashing, to die down. As we did, the director loaded up another syringe with even more tranquilizer, and as the raccoon dropped off into unconsciousness, he stuck it a second time with the heavier dose. Even then, it growled at him and flailed a paw against the wall.
More waiting, this time to make sure the animal was truly down for the count.
Then, while wearing welderâs gloves, the director opened the door of the carrier and removed the raccoon. She was limp, bedraggled, and utterly emaciated, but she was still alive. We bagged up the cat carrier and gave it to the women again, advising them that now was a good time to leave. They heeded our warning.
I asked if I could come closer to see, and the clinic director pointed where I could stand. I pushed the mask up against my face and tried to breathe as little as possible.
He and his co-directorâwho I think he was grooming to be his successor, but the clinic actually went under later that yearâexamined the raccoon together. Donning a pair of nitrile gloves, he reached down and pulled up a handful, a literal fistful, of the raccoonâs skin and released it. It stayed pulled up.
Severe dehydration causes a phenomenon called âskin tentingâ. The skin loses its elasticity somewhat, and will be slow to return to its ânormalâ shape when manipulated. The clinic director estimated that it had been at least four or five days since the raccoon had had anything to eat or drink.Â
She was already on deathâs doorstep, but her rabies infection had driven her exhausted body to scream and lunge and bite.Â
Because, the scariest thing about rabies (if you ask me) is the way that it alters the behavior of those it infects to increase chances of spreading.Â
The prodromal stage? Nocturnal animals become diurnalâallowing them to potentially infect most hosts than if they remained nocturnal.Â
The excitative stage? The infected animal bites at the slightest provocation. Swallowing causes painful spasms, so they drool, coating their bodies in infectious matter. A drink could wash away the virus-charged saliva from their mouth and bodies, so the virus drives them to panic at the sight of water.
(The paralytic stage? By that point, the animal has probably spread its infection to new hosts, so the virus has no need for it any longer.)
Rabies is deadly. Rabies is dangerous. In all of recorded history, one person survived an infection after she became symptomatic, and so far we havenât been able to replicate that success. The Milwaukee Protocol hasnât saved anyone else. Just one person. And even then, she still had to struggle to gain back control of her body after all that nerve damage.
Please, please, take rabies seriously.
This has been a warning from your old pal Bear.
I knew how bad it was, but I had never read anything like the raccoon story.
I am not exaggerating when I say that is literally terrifying.
Y'all please read this. That is absolutely hideous. Thatâs literally like something from a horror movie.
Do not fuck around with wildlife. Or weird strays.
In my 16 years of veterinary medicine I may have only seen one POSITIVE RABIES CASE (but Iâm not in a shelter situation where I see many strays). Want to know what that was in ? A 9 week old PUPPY. It takes time for the virus to travel to the brain, and that tiny little puppy was bitten by a skunk in the head 3 weeks prior. Honestly Iâm surprised it took 3 weeks since it was on his head but Iâm sure it had to travel around the skull to the spine to get to the brain. Either way, a 6 week old poodle mix puppy, that was only about 3 pounds at death, was outside where a rabid skunk could bite him.
Anyone who knows about the rabies vaccine knows this puppy was still weeks away from his vaccine. We cannot give it until 12 weeks or it wouldnât be effective. Iâve seen some rescues give it at 9 weeks but we boostered it at 12 weeks because we too have looked death in the eyes. It was an experience we use to convince owners they need to keep their pets vaccinated.
My coworker Lars and I were the only two technicians who were vaccinated and luckily he was the one who took the room. I stood on standby while Dr. D took the puppyâs carrier and asked the owners how many people came into contact with the puppy. It was in the carrier growling and drooling. They had been trying to get it to drink for a couple days now. And it was getting aggressive towards them. There were KIDS involved.
But the kicker? Two other vets besides my boss examined this puppy and not one before him thought to warn them of rabies. Their regular vet and an emergency vet in the weeks since it got bit by the skunk had examined him. So in total I think about 20 people had to go in for inoculations. Maybe more.
It was sad but necessary, euthanizing the puppy then removing the head for testing. Then waiting on the phone call. Our clinic was on the news. This was in 2017 and it was the first positive case in our county in 5 years. There was two more that year, and two in 2018. There have also been two so far this year. Positive rabies cases this year in the entire state: 13. Iâm having trouble finding the data for the entire US, but Iâm sure I can calculate it in time. There are 50 states of data to go through.
This isnât something to sleep on. Make sure your pets are vaccinated. If they are too young or cannot receive the vaccine for any reason, then you keep that animal inside and away from any other animals. You donât want to risk it. You donât want to put anyone else at risk. If you wake up to bats in your room, go get vaccinated. Bats can bite you and infect you and YOU DONâT KNOW IT. Their bites are so small. Just donât risk it, if youâve slept in the same room as a bat, you could be infected.
Even though Ireland is rabies free, Iâm gonna reblog for any American or Asian followers as I know that y'all got that shit in the wild.
Hey remember when there was like a rabies fandom and people legit wanted to get rabies or believed they had rabies already. Also fun reminder that rabies IS THE REAL LIFE ZOMBIE VIRUS. I am not exaggerating. It alters the behavior for the sole purpose of spreading. Humans are a lot stronger than we feel bc our brain doesnât let us our full strength bc weâd break our bones and muscles would tear if we did. Humans have the capability to bite a finger off like a baby carrot but it doesnât seem that way. If you have rabies, that setting in your brain is turned off. So now if a person gets infected, they can outrun you and overpower you no matter their exhaustion or any pain they might be feeling.