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Welp, looks like rabies is gonna have a huge comeback. I bet there's a huge overlap with antivaxx owners and unleashed pets too.
It's really sad too.
One interpretation of the cause of this problem is that vaccines are just too effective. No one has polio, not to mention even chicken pox.
A resurgence of rabies (or, god forbid, small pox) will clear that up real quick.
Then again, too much of this planet have been fed a steady diet of propaganda for most of their adult lives.
Ahem.
Fwiw the last big smallpox outbreak was in 1962.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079469/
And? All that needs to happen for a major world outbreak now that almost no one has any immunity is for it to escape from a lab or a vial in cardboard box somewhere.
How many millions died from COVID? Try billions.
Let me tell you what, that would sure reduce our carbon footprint and the price of housing.
I literally saw lady letting fucking hellspawn of a child COVERED IN CHICKEN POX run around barefoot at Aldi a few weeks ago. I was so panicked I didn’t know what to do because I didn’t even see them until I was walking out so I just got out as fast as I could. My wife has never had chickenpox, and adult chickenpox can apparently be much more deadly, so it was definitely kind of terrifying.
Get the damn vaccine.
I’ll have to check to see if she’s gotten it. I can’t imagine she’s gone this long without getting chickenpox and not being vaccinated for it, but I don’t think the chickenpox vaccine was as widely known of when we were kids in the 90s.
There's an adult vaccine, get it and fear not: https://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/chickenpox-varicella-vaccine-guidelines-for-adults
Smallpox can never return. It is gone forever
It's extinct in the wild. It's still frozen in labs, and the soviet union made it in vast quantities before falling apart. There's also samples sitting around that are occasionally found.
It's not completely gone. That's why they still vaccinate you for it when you join the military.
A simple search would tell you that there is a great deal of controversy over the fact that this virus is not gone forever.
Try to be better and not amplify false statements.
I don’t think that anyone plans on releasing smallpox from labs. That wouldn’t benefit anyone.
Who said anything about planning?
Oh, hello! It must be your first time coming to Earth and meeting humanity.
Cats too. I hate that people let cats roam, it's irresponsible and shitty to just let your pet out to do whatever it wants with everyone else's property. And now there are gonna be unvaccinated, rabid cats roaming and infecting it further.
Hey maybe the apocalypse is coming and this is the start of a zombie/aggressive rabies outbreak!
I'd let my cat out if I had one. They deserve to explore and be happy
They die much younger on average if you do that.
True that.
Do they deserve to explore and suffer horrible injuries and/or death? All the while decimating local bird populations, and, if not spayed or neutered, creating more kittens to live lives full of suffering and hardship?
Yep
Good thing you don't have cats then, sounds like you'd be an irresponsible owner.
I thought you would love to know... haha, we are e now irresponsible cat owners. ;)
Why would I like to know that you're proud of potentially causing suffering to your pets and other animals?
Even just today I had to rescue a kitten who had been yelling for hours near my house because their owners let them outside. At least she was microchipped so we could find them easily, but she was not happy about it at all. Came running after me as soon as she saw me, and ran inside the house when I opened the kitchen door.
Never change.
If you say so friend.
Can you imagine if dog people just opened their doors at night, let their dogs fuck off to wreck property, kill pets, get killed themselves, and destroy native birds and animals? They'd rightly be called out and have their pets taken away. Take care of YOUR pet and keep it on YOUR property. I've had issues with neighbor cats causing damages to my property, and if your pet becomes my pest, I will treat it as such.
I remember a neighbor's cat once almost tore through my window screen to get at my pet parrot. If that cat had made it inside my house and attacked my pet, he would not have made it out alive.
Dogs and cats are not the same. And that sucks.
I'm also glad I don't know you and I bet that is mutual. We can celebrate this non-familularity.
I believe the current survival rate is 29 people ever.
Only 5 of whom had no long-term damage.
Sauce. It's a bit old at 2020 though so there are probably a few more.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266186/
Well the average is 1 survivor every 167 years, so I'd say that's charitable.
This is nonsense lmfao. Why you even said this after I linked a literal study about the surviving cases is beyond me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies
30 survivors in 5000 years = 1/167. Apparently it's about 4000 years, so 1/133. My bad.
Do you believe the earth is 5000 years old or something?
The first unvaccinated person to live from rabies was in 2004 due to the Milwaukee Protocol.
2023 - 2004 = 19. 29/19 = 1.53 survivors per year.
You're taking this way more seriously than it was intended. It was an off the cuff comment. I just took the known history of rabies and divided it by known survivors.
cocks shotgun not if I can help it