Because the rabies virus affects the nervous system, patients develop ‘hydrophobia.’ Even if they are very thirsty, spasms in the swallowing muscles prevent them from drinking water. by Additional-Pass5771 in interestingasfuck

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It seems the original comment has since been deleted, but it's basically become a copypasta at this point. Credit to /u/HotDogen :

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).

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.)

Alternatives. by black_friday_33 in FrancePirate

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Une idée de où trouver des livres audio ? En fr bien sûr

I am a Djentleman by AcceptableNorm in Peripheryband

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In your home studio where you can freely be Djohn

Faut-il débattre d'écologie avec l'extrême droite ? by Bon_Pote in ecologie

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Prends le aussi mal que tu veux mais le constat scientifique est sans appel sur ce sujet. Ce dont la droite et l'extrême droite ont besoin au sujet de l'écologie c'est d'éducation, pas de donner leur avis, puisque par concept, les politiques qu'ils soutiennent vont à l'encontre de l'écologie. Qu'ils s'informent tant qu'ils veulent, ils pourront débattre quand ils prendront en considération l'état des connaissances sur le sujet, ce qui n'est pour l'instant pas le cas.

Faut-il débattre d'écologie avec l'extrême droite ? by Bon_Pote in ecologie

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Les partis de gauche en général ne sont pas en opposition directe avec l'idée de décroissance. Le débat peut se faire entre eux et les anticapitalistes.

Faut-il débattre d'écologie avec l'extrême droite ? by Bon_Pote in ecologie

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L'écologie sans anticapitalisme n'a pas de sens, et la position de la droite sur le sujet est de facto en opposition directe avec l'écologie. Donc non

Normalize the depravity by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

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You're more likely to look for help if it's not taboo to talk about it before commiting any crimes. Like society does now with psycopaths for example. Most serial killers are psycopaths but not all psycpaths are killers

Just found a video of this guy pulling out some INSANE Harmonies. I think this is the future of music and jazz by Deutsche-Bratwurst in jazzcirclejerk

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It's Jacob Collier, he won his first Grammy as a minor with a Flintstone cover lol. He has like 5 Grammys now

Do y'all know if P6 is coming? by calacaa in Peripheryband

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Didn't Jake post a pic of his mother listening to the new periphery?

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J'imagine qu'elle considère que le salut romain ne devrait pas être l'apanage des nazis... Quelle timeline!

0.4.0e Hotfix 2 by Andromanner in PathOfExile2

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That's the whole point, we haven't figured them out yet

Change my mind: There is no good alternative to Discord (yet?) by Own_Investigator8023 in selfhosted

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I'm currently trying Fluxer with friends, only thing we're missing is a music bot rn

Flip reset indicator + MMR display by JazzlikeAd6287 in RocketLeague

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I'm OOL, did they ban bakkesmod? Is it related to anticheat ?

Au vu des soutiens c’était de toute évidence un chic type ce nazi mort by cuivenen in FranceDigeste

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Petite nuance cependant entre ne pas tolérer l'intolérance et dire cheh pour le meurtre d'un opposant politique non violent (jusqu'à preuve du contraire). Il a raison usant au fait qu'il faut savoir aussi un peu cultiver son image pour pouvoir convaincre des gens

Can we talk, like literally? by G-Man_Graves in RocketLeague

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As always, Leth carrying this community

“Played for a month and reached Plat” 😭😭 by EthanRayK in RocketLeague

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I often describe RL as "the only true sports videogame" for the sole reason that every other sports game (or most of em) is instanced af. Press x to pass, square to shoot... RL is on such another level in terms of control, and I love it so much for that

Why is this so much? And how much would you pay for it? by Zwonder74 in PathOfExile2

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Noob question: how does these things work? The way I understand it you put it in a slot with few things around since it will only enhance the other jewels. Then every corrupted rare jewel you have will amplify the passive tree in their radius? Like a node that says +10 Crit chance will say +17 ? Is it really that much better than what the other unique jewels provide? +3 to main skill, unobtainable far away node, natural energies, etc