Silver Tongue

mylordshesacactus:

pureslime:

pizzaback:

pureslime:

pizzaback:

sorry if i’m 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 you’re bitten or scratched by an animal that you aren’t 100% sure is vaccinated then GO TO A DOCTOR. it’s not a joke. really. 

One of the most mesmerizing things about online communities, is when spending enough time with like-minded people, the facts and consequences of reality begin to melt away.

Suddenly, rabies isn’t as dangerous as everyone says, the earth is flat, the moon landing was faked, and Steven Universe kin drama is a legitimate threat.

that’s a good way of putting it. while thinking abt making this post i kept thinking “i’m afraid this is gonna end up like the tide pod thing” but didn’t know how to articulate it so thank you for that

I mean usually I’d say people need to go outside, but I fear if they’re rabies fetishists that’s the exactly what they want

I need to emphasize: Rabies does not have an “almost” 100% fatality rate. Rabies has a 100% fatality rate, period. Ebola has a fatality rate of about 50%. There are six people in recorded history who have ever contracted rabies and survived. Six. Six human beings. Ever.

The fatality rate of attempted suicide with a firearm is 82.5%. 

All six of those people were complete flukes. They’re outliers. We haven’t been able to figure out how to recreate whatever the hell it was that saved them and not anyone else. If you are exposed to rabies, and don’t immediately receive intensive post-exposure treatment, you die. Not “probably” die, not “it’s as good as a death sentence”. You are dead. There is no remote fractional percentage of a chance that you will not die. It’s terrifying and painful and ugly. It’s not a way anyone in this world deserves to die.

If you’re not sure whether something was rabies exposure, go to the fucking hospital to be sure, because by the time rabies symptoms begin to manifest, treatment is no longer an option. By the time you suspect you have rabies, it is far, far too late. By the time you start showing symptoms, there’s…nothing that anyone can do anymore.

At that point, the only option is called the Milwaukee Protocol, which, again….we’ve NEVER created an effective, reliable way of treating rabies once it manifests. In practice, it mostly consists of putting you in a medically induced coma–not in any real hope of saving your life, but to spare you the pain of feeling what happens to you while you die of rabies.

I genuinely have no idea to what extent rabies has become an actual joke on the internet or if it’s just that one guy who so help me god had better be some kind of satire, but…rabies is fucking terrifying. “Possible rabies exposure” is one of the scariest phrases I can think of.

None of this is fearmongering. Don’t fuck around with rabies. 

even if it WAS ironic its important to note that joking about eating tide pods started out ironically.

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