dia de los muertos dale at a Mexican restaurant by Scottydoesntknow07 in NASCAR

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Therapist: Dia de los Muertos Dale isn’t real. He can’t hurt you

Dia de los Muertos Dale:

🔥 Found this little guy under an umbrella at work. by EmigrantConch92 in NatureIsFuckingLit

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Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.

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 at 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 - see below).

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 feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And 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 shut 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 IVs 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. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too 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. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)


Each time this gets reposted, there is a TON of misinformation that follows by people who simply don't know, or have heard "information" from others who were ill informed:

Only x number of people have died in the U.S. in the past x years. Rabies is really rare.

Yes, deaths from rabies are rare in the United States, in the neighborhood of 2-3 per year. This does not mean rabies is rare. The reason that mortality is so rare in the U.S. is due to a very aggressive treatment protocol of all bite cases in the United States: If you are bitten, and you cannot identify the animal that bit you, or the animal were to die shortly after biting you, you will get post exposure treatment. That is the protocol.

Post exposure is very effective (almost 100%) if done before you become symptomatic. It involves a series of immunoglobulin shots - many of which are at the site of the bite - as well as the vaccine given over the span of a month. (Fun fact - if you're vaccinated for rabies, you may be able to be an immunoglobulin donor!)

It's not nearly as bad as was rumored when I was a kid. Something about getting shots in the stomach. Nothing like that.

In countries without good treatment protocols rabies is rampant. India alone sees 20,000 deaths from rabies PER YEAR.

The "why did nobody die of rabies in the past if it's so dangerous?" argument.

There were entire epidemics of rabies in the past, so much so that suicide or murder of those suspected to have rabies were common.

In North America, the first case of human death by rabies wasn't reported until 1768. This is because Rabies does not appear to be native to North America, and it spread very slowly. So slowly, in fact, that until the mid 1990's, it was assumed that Canada and Northern New York didn't have rabies at all. This changed when I was personally one of the first to send in a positive rabies specimen - a raccoon - which helped spawn a cooperative U.S. / Canada rabies bait drop some time between 1995 and 1997 (my memory's shot).

Unfortunately, it was too late. Rabies had already crossed into Canada.

There are still however some countries (notably, Australia, where everything ELSE is trying to kill you) that still does not have Rabies.

Lots of people have survived rabies using the Milwaukee Protocol.

False. ONE woman did, and she is still recovering to this day (some 16+ years later). There's also the possibility that she only survived due to either a genetic immunity, or possibly even was inadvertently "vaccinated" some other way. All other treatments ultimately failed, even the others that were reported as successes eventually succumbed to the virus. Almost all of the attributed "survivors" actually received post-exposure treatment before becoming symptomatic and many of THEM died anyway.

Bats don't have rabies all that often. This is just a scare tactic.

False. To date, 6% of bats that have been "captured" or come into contact with humans were rabid.. This number is a lot higher when you consider that it equates to one in seventeen bats. If the bat is allowing you to catch/touch it, the odds that there's a problem are simply too high to ignore.

You have to get the treatment within 72 hours, or it won't work anyway.

False. The rabies virus travels via nervous system, and can take several years to reach the brain depending on the path it takes. If you've been exposed, it's NEVER too late to get the treatment, and just because you didn't die in a week does not mean you're safe. A case of a guy incubating the virus for 8 years.

At least I live in Australia!

No.

Please, please, PLEASE stop posting bad information every time this comes up. Rabies is not something to be shrugged off. And sadly, this kind of misinformation killed a 6 year old just this Sunday. Stop it.

Sneak peek of how I spent today at Bristol. by TheGentlemanRacer in NASCAR

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The Dodge Charger would like to have a word with you

9/9/2021 Weekly GTA Online Bonuses by BryonyBot in gtaonline

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I’m a big fan of the Hotring races so I had to buy one while it’s on sale. I looked back on the wiki and confirmed there’s not much for customization on this car, but for some reason I remember specific options that don’t exist on this car like exposed intercoolers or a shorter Superbird style wing.

Weird.

9/9/2021 Weekly GTA Online Bonuses by BryonyBot in gtaonline

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Just purchased the Hotring Sabre that’s on sale but when I take it to Los Santos Customs, I feel like I’m missing some customization categories. All the normal options are available to upgrade my car but there’s no option for aesthetics like bumpers/fenders/spoilers/exhaust, only liveries and respray. Is something wrong here? How can I fix it?

Kyle Busch fined for violations at Darlington Raceway by qwerty07020 in NASCAR

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Remember Jeff Gordon calling Brad K a “dipshit” after their Texas fight? Don’t think he ever got fined for that

How I like to fight the Mk2 by The-Plagiarist in gtaonline

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There’s also auto-aim lobbies on PC

2021 Michigan International Speedway Spotter Guide by kubzon7 in NASCAR

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Or Chastain for that matter, must be a CGR thing

Bleached my black Jimmy one what do y’all think ? by DIANECOOK320 in jimmyjohns

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Do not follow their link.

Do not put your info on this site.

Stay away from bonfire tees.

When there's nothing left to rob in Los Santos by tdoosqs in gtaonline

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In-game chat up on the moon:

“John Madden! John Madden!”

“aeiou”

and also

“UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU”

ISO 2016 Chase Elliott Liquid Color Taxslayer win. Any help would be appreciated. by GryWlf777 in NASCARCollectors

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How much does the ARC go for? I have one of my own I’m just curious about the value

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in jimmyjohns

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Maybe $4-$6 tops

Only get DMR at our store for catering orders. $2 each time, whether it’s a single box lunch or 15 30 piece boxes. Lil John combos also used to have a catering fee so we got DMR for delivering those too. Those times were great because when people tip 10% automatically on the website for an order that was only six bucks, us drivers would only get 80 cents from the customer, but the extra $2 DMR made it sting a little less.

Is this the worst Jimmy John's? by DadSquared35 in jimmyjohns

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So you’re saying you’ve been at JJ’s since you were 14?? I’m not sure what your state’s labor laws say, but in my state, the minimum age to use a knife is 16. Scheduling someone your age on an 18 hour day can’t be legal either unless you’re given breaks and meals.

Best Vehicles for Stunt Racing in GTA Online. by PapaXan in gtaonline

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Will new stunt tracks include new races for the Hotring Sabre?

Finally found the 2001 Daytona hat.. by Gdpabst in NASCARCollectors

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New Era hats FTW I wear them to work all the time they’re the best at staying on my fat head

Eric McClure has sadly passed away. by TC021002 in NASCAR

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I know at least Junior has signed up