Yes, rabies is basically a virus from science fiction considering its very specific symptoms and nigh 100% mortality rate if untreated immediately. This is a hard watch, so my apologies if it upsets anyone, but it's a unique documentation of a patient going through every stage of the disease, including the inexorable death.
We haven't had a domestic case of rabies in a human since the mid 60's, and have, same as our neighboring countries, succesfully wiped out the disease in wild animals since the early 00's as well. As scary as a 100% mortality rate is, the odds of catching rabies is pretty much 0 over here, and has been since before I was born. So rabies was always this thing I was aware existed, but never registered as a threat, because, from my pov, it isn't. I guess this is one of those moments where I understand what privilege is.
I don't feel like attending Google University right now, so can't speak to our stateside stats as to rabies' proliferation here, but I know I've seen recent video of animals suffering it. One was a fox (iirc) in someone's driveway. It was basically manic, clawing and biting at the air, until someone put it down from a safe distance. Needless to say, it easily could have bitten someone, so while rare, I don't think rabies is a thing we can easily dismiss. Not sure how treatment is now, but adding to the science fiction, treatment was several painful injections, and even that didn't guarantee recovery. It is indeed a very scary disease.
I'd have said that it'd be easy to deal with with fairly basic measures (not once you've become infected, I mean to keep away from and destroy rabid animals), but then with how people refuse to wear a mask during this centuries biggest plague to date...
Yeah, collectively, we're not a smart lot that thinks it's a lot smarter than the actual few smart ones amongst us. An outbreak of rabies would reduce the global population to about 14 people, and they'd all be in Australia or New Zealand simply for their remoteness from the rest of the dumbasses. Even then, the poisonous kangaroos would taken them out because humans gotta human. Earth would be a spinning rock devoid of life save for the marine fauna. Can great white sharks get rabies? Because that's a nightmare worthy of a feature length horror film. Straight to DVD, but I'd watch it nonetheless.
And how does one go about getting such verification? I'm willing to wager it's a premium service... provided for a nominal fee, of course. Can't expect providers to assuage the massive nuisance in robo/spam calls that plague their business for free, can we?
Well, I'm on a tablet, but if I click on the username "galaxygolfergirl", it'll take me to that reblog, they you can press the share button
I never knew that myself but it makes perfect sense now that I do know it.
James Cameron kicks ass when it comes (came) to miniatures. Especially when it's in combination with rear screen projection.
Huh...that's...well done him and his staff, but why the hell did they had to do it that way?
