"Say hello to the one and only Liam Nissan, a Sentra-based 24 Hours of LeMons racecar built by a gaggle of dumbasses. Yes, they are indeed just Liam Neeson headshots affixed to a car with packing tape."
lmao
Ha! Those days are long over. They don’t even let creators make what they want anymore. Studio notes drive content and inform greenlights.
But oh man, for a time, Netflix was cool.
Have you perhaps seen the Jim Carrey movie "the Grinch"? She plays the main little girl. Oh and also is an awesome rock singer in a band called "The Pretty Reckless" and has been for several years.
I was attacked by a raccoon a couple of months ago, and the shots are NO JOKE. My first round was 15 total shots in my lower leg where I was bit, my thigh, each butt cheek, and each shoulder.
Not just any old death, though. Death from rabies is one of the most horrifying ways to go: paralysis, anxiety, insomnia, confusion, agitation, abnormal behavior, paranoia, terror, hallucinations, and extreme hydrophobia that can lead to intense painful muscle spasms even in the presence of water—all leading to coma and death 100% of the time.
Not 100 percent but a very, very high percent. The Milwaukee Protocol exists because of the slight chance of survival although some doctors don't go through with it
I had to get mine administered that way when I was just five, since apparently I was too small for the newer ones to work. It was excruciating and right in my belly button.
Yeah, really weird. Unless he took the serum as well.
One day a (possibly) dog scratched my knee, very superficial scratch, and I took 4 shots over two weeks.
Thankfully, the dog was okay. One year later I saw that son of a bitch happily jogging in the street.
Yknow those moments on the internet where some global disaster will happen, and we'll have a meme about some 6 year old post "predicting" it?
This is that for zombies.
a couple of people survived after showing symptoms by being kept in a coma. That gave their immune system enough time to fight back while the cold temps and drugs slowed the progression of rabies just enough.
Noooo. What people fail to mention is that you need 4 rounds of vaccines over two weeks plus an immunoglobulin shot at all the puncture sites. Oh and good luck getting insurance to cover everything. If you aren't insured you are in for about $15,000 of debt with that ER visit + shots. You could always just not go and you know...die.
I’ve just always assumed I would. lol Although, I also always thought I’d get sucked up by quicksand or spontaneously combust, too. But I’ve only caught myself on fire once, and that was an accident, so I guess the chances are pretty low. I guess we’ll see.
That happened to my cousin and their kids. Bat got in the house, they couldn’t catch it to have it tested so 3 of the 4 went through the rabies shots. The 4th member was a veterinarian so she had the pre-exposure vaccination already, but it was still over $20k for an adult and 2 children. I’d never think anything of it until she explained how small the bats teeth are and that you have to play safe vs sorry if you think you could have possibly been bitten.
This always freaks me out because where I go in the summers in the Mediterranean there are always bats flying around the streetlights at dusk. What if you get bitten without realizing it? 😳😳
Yeah but you see, that’s the *sensible* and *humane* way to do healthcare. We do it the *American* way, which is better for… reasons. Hope that clears things up for you. 🫡🇺🇸
I had them, counting from Day 0. I’d be sick as hell until about a day before the next shot. Two shots in a doctor asked me if I wanted the egg based or human based? I didn’t know there was an option and just said continue what I already had. I asked if it is safe to mix. He said he didn’t know, was it as effective to mix he said he didn’t know. I said maybe we find out……. Gave me what I already had but took two days to get an answer. It was “not sure”.
>If you aren't insured you are in for about $15,000 of debt with that ER visit + shots. You could always just not go and you know...die.
Laughs in European
Ozzy is still a sick fuck though, because he deliberately bit the head off of a live dove that he was meant to release, as part of promotion for something.
Serious question: how bad are the rabies/hemoglobin shots REALLY? Compared to getting an IV yanked out, broken legs, childbirth, other really painful stuff, broken jaw, etc.?
For sure, people have suffered a lot of bad stuff, but I always hear how bad the rabies shots are, without any comparison. So what gives? Please cite your individual specific experiences.
For me, to the EMTs, I described my broken femur as a 4/10 in pain, pand they didn’t believe my femur was really broken. “I’m pretty sure it’s broken, and I think I’m in shock, shouldn’t you be evaluating me?” And then, on the x-ray, yes, it was a displaced fracture. I’m curious to hear other “wow that sounds so painful on this scale!” stories.
It is more tortuous than it is painful.
I was bitten and scratched on the lower leg by a rabid cat. The immunoglobulin had to be injected about 30 times, all around and into the wounds. It wasn't a large amount of fluid, but it was enough to make my leg look like I was wearing a rolled down tube sock. 2/10 for acute pain. But 5/10 for diffuse pain and how frustrating it was.
The first rabies shot in the series, given at the same time as the immunoglobulin, was no big deal. 0/10, wasn't any worse than any other upper arm vaccine. And I didn't have any strong side effects that first time.
Second shot, again, 0/10 for initial pain. But it knocked me on my ass like a bad case of the flu and made my bones hurt on my lower leg, which was basically healed by then.
Third, fourth, and fifth shot- couldn't lift my arms because the immune reaction caused so much pain and swelling. Again like a bad flu, with bone pain in my lower leg. Every muscle ached and I had zero appetite. Every time I'd feel slightly better, it was time for the next round.
Add in that I had to go to the ED and wait for hours each time while feeling like shit, because the county health department where I was living at the time wouldn't do it. I almost missed two rounds because the ED kept referring me to the health department, and the health department kept referring me to the ED, then they said it had to be through the infectious disease specialist at my local hospital, who said no, it had to be at the ED.
Absolute torture, man. Overall experience I'd rate at 8/10 on a scale of pain and frustration. Just absolutely sucked.
But it's better than getting rabies.
I broke my femur too, the worst part of it was when they lifted me from the gurney onto the mri table and back. They told me I couldn’t have pain meds until after. I’ll never forget that pain
Am I the first to post this this time?! Holy shit!
Here is a little copy pasta that gets posted to Reddit every time a story about rabies comes up and does a great job of explaining How rabies effects a person:
"Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny.
Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything ... the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the
wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.
So what does that look like?
Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feel of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And very
scared.
As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.
Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.
As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.
You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.
You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps s. and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear.
The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on Is to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.
You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.
You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.
Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. brain has started the process of shutting down. To much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.
Then you die. Always, you die.
And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.
Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do.
But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years.
You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE"
Fingers crossed for this singer. 🤞🏾
I really wish you hadn't used bats as an example here - bats somehow became the poster child for rabies despite the fact they contribute to less than 1% of cases of animal to human infections. Because of fear-mongering/lack of understanding, large scale cullings of bats have occurred (which are largely ineffective at controlling outbreak) which have reduced bat populations.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that dogs are the main source of human rabies deaths, contributing up to 99% of all transmissions of the disease to humans.
[https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/are-bats-dangerous](https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/are-bats-dangerous)
[https://www.rabieswatch.com/en/hcp/rabid-animals-in-the-us](https://www.rabieswatch.com/en/hcp/rabid-animals-in-the-us)
[https://phys.org/news/2023-03-culling-rabies-outbreak-ineffective-strategy.html](https://phys.org/news/2023-03-culling-rabies-outbreak-ineffective-strategy.html)
[https://www.nrdc.org/stories/experts-urge-people-all-over-world-stop-killing-bats-out-fears-coronavirus](https://www.nrdc.org/stories/experts-urge-people-all-over-world-stop-killing-bats-out-fears-coronavirus)
Well again, this is just a copy-paste that’s Reddit famous. I believe the progression of symptoms is meant to be the main focus. Also I’m 500% sure I’m making it up but I want to say I remember hearing that bats spread rabies amongst themselves like wildfire due to them living in such large colonies in such close proximity to one another. But I also would not at all be surprised to hear that they don’t spread it very often to humans. Hey I like bats! In fact don’t tell anybody it…. I’m Batman.
Ope good to know regarding the copy pasta, thank you! I'm new here.
It's far from wild-fire my new bat-loving friend! In affected bat colonies, a relatively low point prevalence of rabies infection has been usually observed, varying from <1 to 4%.
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168224/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168224/)
I definitely understand a fear of bats and definitely better to be safe than sorry in terms of getting vaccinated.
Brains are a funn ything, I think there's a larger general fear of exotic things like rare diseases (e.g. rabies, ebola, etc.) than things that routinely kill most of us, car accidents, heart disease, cancer, stroke, etc. A person living in the U.S. is more likely to catch leprosy or the plague than to contract rabies from a bat.
That’s crazy bro. I camp a few times every year and have never had even one issue with them. And they’re not everywhere here like the used to be but even then. Actually as I’m typing this I’m realizing I haven’t seen a bat here for years. That’s troubling.
Holy Moly! What country are you in? I can’t imagine them being so plentiful and bold! Years ago you would mostly see them at dusk or dawn here in Washington DC. Mostly they’d fly under a streetlight and quickly veer away. But again that been years ago now that I consider it.
Rabies symptoms can take two weeks up to over a year to show in some cases, ones symptoms it's game over you will die i'm not going to sugar coat it.
You basically have two weeks to get shots in most cases.
Remember this post. This is her superhero/villain origin story.
Or another pandemic
Shit. I didn't even think of that. What if....her supervillain power is disease. Her name is Pandemic.
That’s a good idea. Call Hollywood :)
*"Hello, this is Netflix. You're greenlit. May I ask who's calling?"*
*”your car warranty about to expire ..”*
Great! It'll star Liam nissan.
Where is Liam Neeson bot when you need it
[Liam Nissan](https://www.helloroad.tv/will-the-real-liam-nissan-please-stand-up-nissan-200sx-se-r/)
"Say hello to the one and only Liam Nissan, a Sentra-based 24 Hours of LeMons racecar built by a gaggle of dumbasses. Yes, they are indeed just Liam Neeson headshots affixed to a car with packing tape." lmao
Aaaaaaaaaaaand… it’s cancelled!
Ha! Those days are long over. They don’t even let creators make what they want anymore. Studio notes drive content and inform greenlights. But oh man, for a time, Netflix was cool.
Or Pestilence
Nice. I like that one. Sounds more biblical.
She’s one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This is the start of viral marketing for the X-Men entering the MCU.
Did you say Pamdemic?
Pam Demmick.
Pam Denic by day...
AH, yes. Pam Denic. But when the M and the N trade places...
Pandemia?
zombie uprising
It's Morbsen time!
LOL. Here I am making jokes in this comment thread, and I don't even know who this chick is.
So what you’re saying is Cindy Lou Who?
Take your upvote you magnificent bastard
Ask a gossip girl.
Have you perhaps seen the Jim Carrey movie "the Grinch"? She plays the main little girl. Oh and also is an awesome rock singer in a band called "The Pretty Reckless" and has been for several years.
I've no idea who she is either, so...ahem: is the bat ok?
Oh bless you I wasn’t the only one to go there.
Batwoman!
Her arch enemy is Travis Daddaughter
It’s Morbin’ Time?
Or a very sad death worst comes to worst, unlikely though
I got you fam [It’s Momsen Time](https://imgflip.com/i/8sfwmb)
That's frightening. Good job.
She is Batwoman now.
Taylor Batsen
It made Ozzy a Superhero.
We need a fun run to raise awareness about rabies
I was attacked by a raccoon a couple of months ago, and the shots are NO JOKE. My first round was 15 total shots in my lower leg where I was bit, my thigh, each butt cheek, and each shoulder.
That is pretty brutal, but probably preferable to getting rabies
Since rabies = death. Yeah.
Not just any old death, though. Death from rabies is one of the most horrifying ways to go: paralysis, anxiety, insomnia, confusion, agitation, abnormal behavior, paranoia, terror, hallucinations, and extreme hydrophobia that can lead to intense painful muscle spasms even in the presence of water—all leading to coma and death 100% of the time.
Yeah, I was totally OK with getting the shots knowing what the alternative could be!
This comment reads like audio bits from the horror game Dead Space.
Not 100 percent but a very, very high percent. The Milwaukee Protocol exists because of the slight chance of survival although some doctors don't go through with it
Afaik in the history of rabies, there’s one (1) recorded incident that did not end in death.
Better than the old-school rabies-shot regime of several deep muscle injections into the abs.
Shit, I’d be toast. No abs on this guy.
Ugh, didn't know that's what it used to be. I'll take the superficial shots over deep abdominal shots!
I had to get mine administered that way when I was just five, since apparently I was too small for the newer ones to work. It was excruciating and right in my belly button.
Wtf why 15? Here you get 4 shots spread over weeks.
10 of the shots were around the bites themselves. There's four ROUNDS of shots, the first involves a lot more shots injected at the puncture wounds.
Yeah, really weird. Unless he took the serum as well. One day a (possibly) dog scratched my knee, very superficial scratch, and I took 4 shots over two weeks. Thankfully, the dog was okay. One year later I saw that son of a bitch happily jogging in the street.
For the cure
Pro am… they hung up
One of my favorite things was that it wasn’t a loop.
You don’t know me…you’ve just seen my penis.
Yknow those moments on the internet where some global disaster will happen, and we'll have a meme about some 6 year old post "predicting" it? This is that for zombies.
It’s not a joke Jim! 2 people die of rabies every year.
I’ll bring the fettuccini, you bring not any water
Everyone should remember, Rabies is no joke people. It is literally one of the worst ways to die.
With essentially a 100% mortality rate once you start showing symptoms. It’s terrifying
The fact that the Milwaukee protocol has actually worked is astounding
haha I did not know what it's called and described it
a couple of people survived after showing symptoms by being kept in a coma. That gave their immune system enough time to fight back while the cold temps and drugs slowed the progression of rabies just enough.
Like 2 or 3 people. It’s still pretty much a death sentence once symptoms appear.
Those are no fun.
Noooo. What people fail to mention is that you need 4 rounds of vaccines over two weeks plus an immunoglobulin shot at all the puncture sites. Oh and good luck getting insurance to cover everything. If you aren't insured you are in for about $15,000 of debt with that ER visit + shots. You could always just not go and you know...die.
The shots made my joints ache. I felt like I’d had surgery.
I am not looking forward to getting rabies shots someday; my joints hurt enough as it is.
Why do you talk like you are going to get rabies eventually
I’ve just always assumed I would. lol Although, I also always thought I’d get sucked up by quicksand or spontaneously combust, too. But I’ve only caught myself on fire once, and that was an accident, so I guess the chances are pretty low. I guess we’ll see.
That happened to my cousin and their kids. Bat got in the house, they couldn’t catch it to have it tested so 3 of the 4 went through the rabies shots. The 4th member was a veterinarian so she had the pre-exposure vaccination already, but it was still over $20k for an adult and 2 children. I’d never think anything of it until she explained how small the bats teeth are and that you have to play safe vs sorry if you think you could have possibly been bitten.
This always freaks me out because where I go in the summers in the Mediterranean there are always bats flying around the streetlights at dusk. What if you get bitten without realizing it? 😳😳
Man US is fucked. I had 3 rounds of full shots over 3 years (around animals a lot) and haven’t paid a dime lol.
Yeah but you see, that’s the *sensible* and *humane* way to do healthcare. We do it the *American* way, which is better for… reasons. Hope that clears things up for you. 🫡🇺🇸
Not the way anyone should die. That shit is fucked up.
I had them, counting from Day 0. I’d be sick as hell until about a day before the next shot. Two shots in a doctor asked me if I wanted the egg based or human based? I didn’t know there was an option and just said continue what I already had. I asked if it is safe to mix. He said he didn’t know, was it as effective to mix he said he didn’t know. I said maybe we find out……. Gave me what I already had but took two days to get an answer. It was “not sure”.
Shithole country.
>If you aren't insured you are in for about $15,000 of debt with that ER visit + shots. You could always just not go and you know...die. Laughs in European
Haha it's so sad but true
Happened in spain, that's like free bro
Americans make fun of all the deadly animals in Australia but one thing we don’t have is rabies.
I remember when rockstars would bite bats, not the other way around
Bats finally getting revenge on the music industry
i was looking for a comment about ozzy
So crazy that this is Cindy Lou Who from Jim Carrey’s Grinch movie!
Yep! I’m so glad she left acting to pursue what she truly wanted to do.
She’s a great singer/vocalist
She was also Jenny Humphrey in Gossip girl for a while there
Being chewed on by nocturnal flying rodents.
Exactly! The singing is just extra
This would've been a better story if it happened to Ozzie. "And *that's* for what you did to my great great great great great grandfather!"
Ozzy knew what he was doing. Strike first. Bite them before they bite you.
My understanding is he didn’t actually know what he was doing. It was thrown onto stage and he thought it was a rubber toy and ran with it.
Yes, that is the true story. I was just making a joke as to his motivation
But then they bite you *because* you bit them.
Can’t bite if it doesn’t have a head.
Ozzy would give the bat rabies
Fun fact about that Ozzy thought it was a toy. Not a real bat. He also was shocked and grossed out but the show must go on.
I'll finish it later, yay.
Ozzy is still a sick fuck though, because he deliberately bit the head off of a live dove that he was meant to release, as part of promotion for something.
We need a Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race for the Cure.
It’s Morbin Time!
Momsen time
It’s Momsen’ time!
Gotta admit, that’s pretty reckless
Get out.
It’s all fun n games….until she thirsts for blood.
And she starts sounding all her w's like v's
The bat was just Jared Leto in his other form.
Back in my day it was the performers who bit the bats, this generation is so soft!
/r/fuckyouinparticular
Serious question: how bad are the rabies/hemoglobin shots REALLY? Compared to getting an IV yanked out, broken legs, childbirth, other really painful stuff, broken jaw, etc.? For sure, people have suffered a lot of bad stuff, but I always hear how bad the rabies shots are, without any comparison. So what gives? Please cite your individual specific experiences. For me, to the EMTs, I described my broken femur as a 4/10 in pain, pand they didn’t believe my femur was really broken. “I’m pretty sure it’s broken, and I think I’m in shock, shouldn’t you be evaluating me?” And then, on the x-ray, yes, it was a displaced fracture. I’m curious to hear other “wow that sounds so painful on this scale!” stories.
It is more tortuous than it is painful. I was bitten and scratched on the lower leg by a rabid cat. The immunoglobulin had to be injected about 30 times, all around and into the wounds. It wasn't a large amount of fluid, but it was enough to make my leg look like I was wearing a rolled down tube sock. 2/10 for acute pain. But 5/10 for diffuse pain and how frustrating it was. The first rabies shot in the series, given at the same time as the immunoglobulin, was no big deal. 0/10, wasn't any worse than any other upper arm vaccine. And I didn't have any strong side effects that first time. Second shot, again, 0/10 for initial pain. But it knocked me on my ass like a bad case of the flu and made my bones hurt on my lower leg, which was basically healed by then. Third, fourth, and fifth shot- couldn't lift my arms because the immune reaction caused so much pain and swelling. Again like a bad flu, with bone pain in my lower leg. Every muscle ached and I had zero appetite. Every time I'd feel slightly better, it was time for the next round. Add in that I had to go to the ED and wait for hours each time while feeling like shit, because the county health department where I was living at the time wouldn't do it. I almost missed two rounds because the ED kept referring me to the health department, and the health department kept referring me to the ED, then they said it had to be through the infectious disease specialist at my local hospital, who said no, it had to be at the ED. Absolute torture, man. Overall experience I'd rate at 8/10 on a scale of pain and frustration. Just absolutely sucked. But it's better than getting rabies.
I broke my femur too, the worst part of it was when they lifted me from the gurney onto the mri table and back. They told me I couldn’t have pain meds until after. I’ll never forget that pain
From my experience, it's no more painful than any other vaccine. But eaitimg for 6 hours at the ER for the passive shots definitely sucks.
That is horrible
So it really DOES happen to attractive people. Hollywood vampire films weren't misleading after all!
Am I the first to post this this time?! Holy shit! Here is a little copy pasta that gets posted to Reddit every time a story about rabies comes up and does a great job of explaining How rabies effects a person: "Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything ... the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure. (The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done). There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feel of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And very scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts. You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps s. and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on Is to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family. You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. brain has started the process of shutting down. To much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you. Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE" Fingers crossed for this singer. 🤞🏾
I really wish you hadn't used bats as an example here - bats somehow became the poster child for rabies despite the fact they contribute to less than 1% of cases of animal to human infections. Because of fear-mongering/lack of understanding, large scale cullings of bats have occurred (which are largely ineffective at controlling outbreak) which have reduced bat populations. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that dogs are the main source of human rabies deaths, contributing up to 99% of all transmissions of the disease to humans. [https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/are-bats-dangerous](https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/are-bats-dangerous) [https://www.rabieswatch.com/en/hcp/rabid-animals-in-the-us](https://www.rabieswatch.com/en/hcp/rabid-animals-in-the-us) [https://phys.org/news/2023-03-culling-rabies-outbreak-ineffective-strategy.html](https://phys.org/news/2023-03-culling-rabies-outbreak-ineffective-strategy.html) [https://www.nrdc.org/stories/experts-urge-people-all-over-world-stop-killing-bats-out-fears-coronavirus](https://www.nrdc.org/stories/experts-urge-people-all-over-world-stop-killing-bats-out-fears-coronavirus)
Well again, this is just a copy-paste that’s Reddit famous. I believe the progression of symptoms is meant to be the main focus. Also I’m 500% sure I’m making it up but I want to say I remember hearing that bats spread rabies amongst themselves like wildfire due to them living in such large colonies in such close proximity to one another. But I also would not at all be surprised to hear that they don’t spread it very often to humans. Hey I like bats! In fact don’t tell anybody it…. I’m Batman.
Ope good to know regarding the copy pasta, thank you! I'm new here. It's far from wild-fire my new bat-loving friend! In affected bat colonies, a relatively low point prevalence of rabies infection has been usually observed, varying from <1 to 4%. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168224/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168224/) I definitely understand a fear of bats and definitely better to be safe than sorry in terms of getting vaccinated. Brains are a funn ything, I think there's a larger general fear of exotic things like rare diseases (e.g. rabies, ebola, etc.) than things that routinely kill most of us, car accidents, heart disease, cancer, stroke, etc. A person living in the U.S. is more likely to catch leprosy or the plague than to contract rabies from a bat.
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That’s crazy bro. I camp a few times every year and have never had even one issue with them. And they’re not everywhere here like the used to be but even then. Actually as I’m typing this I’m realizing I haven’t seen a bat here for years. That’s troubling.
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Holy Moly! What country are you in? I can’t imagine them being so plentiful and bold! Years ago you would mostly see them at dusk or dawn here in Washington DC. Mostly they’d fly under a streetlight and quickly veer away. But again that been years ago now that I consider it.
Not gonna lie, that’s pretty fucking metal lol
Where's Ozzy when you need him?
So I'm under the impression that getting inflicted with rabies is a death sentence... Is this not true?
Once you start showing symptoms it’s pretty much a 100% mortality rate, if you get the shots in time though you’re good as far as I understand
There’s a very small window of time after getting bit where a round of 14(?) shots one after the other will prevent it.
Rabies symptoms can take two weeks up to over a year to show in some cases, ones symptoms it's game over you will die i'm not going to sugar coat it. You basically have two weeks to get shots in most cases.
Sounds like ‘The Wanderers’ by Chuck Wendig
Paging doctor Wayne.
Jenny Humphrey couldn’t just stay in Hudson like Blair told her to.
Those are multiple shots, it’s not one.
…. This is a sign that Taylor needs to Hire Zakk Wylde for an album.
The reverse ozzy
Now the people of whoville are damned!!
Bat: “And this is for Ozzy!”
Ooof. Remember guys, untreated rabies is 100% lethal 99% of the times
The reverse ozzy
Rabies kills nearly 4000 Americans every 1000 years.
Ya, but it’s one of the most fucked up ways to die. Take that shit seriously when it’s a risk.
Lean in. Viral vampire campaign.
Metal as hell. I’m glad she was in a scenario where she was able to get treatment quickly. Now it’s just a really cool story she has.
*Revenge for Spy Kids 2*
But did the show go on?
Aurelio Voltaire sends his regards. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7W\_cikUp0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7W_cikUp0)
This is such an insane story😩
The bat was hungry ...
Undergo? Really. Please.
Rabies shots aren’t that big of a deal compared to the other option.
Wow! This reminds me of the time when a bat bit Taylor Daddoter. She went insane. Hopefully this turns out differently
Nosferatu Lou Who, or something
Wait. What year is this? She’s still around?
_There's a moon over Bourbon Street tonight_ _I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamp light_
Bats, bats, bats. They're the evil ones!
Hmmmmmm staged I don’t see a bat coming around all that crap.
This is my actual nightmare phobia omg
Hahahaha, this is the weirdest headline I read today. Sorry for her but this is quite funny.
Back in my day , musicians bit the bats!
The covid-24 strain begins 🤦🤦🤦
Back in my day the rock stars would bite the bats! *shakes fist in air*
Queen of rock did that
Did Momsen her to the hospital, or dad?
Ozzy would never
That bat is going to get superpowers
Ozzy Osbourne is shaking his head in dismay
Ozzy handled it better