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[–] [email protected] 135 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I see the raccoon and all I think is this.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

Me looking at that rabioli

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Came here to post exactly this. 🤣🤌🏽

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

In my heart, I knew this comment would already be here.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Those poor raccoons. I don't know what an autistic raccoon looks like, but these scientists should be ashamed of their... hmmm. I actually have no idea what the conspiracy behind animal vaccinations would be. Big science profiting just doesn't fit right.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I used to work in veterinary medicine, and there are plenty of vaccine conspiracies in the pet owning community. They cause everything from seizures, to allergies, to autoimmune diseases, and more, according to some of these people. Breeders are a huge contributor to this, which leads to plenty of arguments with vets and pets running around unvaccinated.

It's expensive to get litters of puppies vaccinated, and whackadoodle (I used "doodle" for a reason) theories are a great cover for why you are sending home a puppy with zero medical history outside of hand written worming dates. Unfortunately, it's harder to educate people when it's way cheaper to believe bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are there autistic animals?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

"All cats are autistic" or so the joke goes.

Don't like being touched except on their terms, don't like eye contact, very particular about food, will screech if overwhelmed.

For actual info and not the joke, unsure. Not a vet, I just ask the vet weird questions! Because I'm autistic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

There's no reason why not, at least in mammals.

Though, i think i read once about how human neurons can connect to 7 instead of 4 (or som.) others compared to other hominids, with the price of higher rate of neurological issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I guess all those things are worse than your pet getting West Nile disease, rabies, distemper, or any of the various diseases pets can get.

Some horse people have stopped giving their horses vaccines because " Wild horses don't need them"(wild horses don't live as long dumbfuck) and west nile is going rampant. Seeing a horse with west Nile so bad they need to be euthanized is not something I'd wish on anyone. It goes neurological in them and causes loss of coordination and seizures.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

They're turning the freaking racoons gray!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Damn you Bill Gates!!

[shakes fist at sky?]

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Babe wake up, new forbidden snack just dropped

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (3 children)

More like free-healthcare just dropped!

[–] RamblingPanda 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Free healthcare and free food. Those raccoons are living like kings!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Thanks Obama

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's what we in "the business" refer to as a "ground score"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Literally from the sky as well

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They dropped these in my mother in law's suburban neighborhood. In her back yard. With no warning. My dog found and ate one, so it had me googling what the hell my dog had just eaten and wondering if she was going to die. Luckily we didn't have any toddlers playing in the back yard.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lucky as hell, your rabid dog would have fucked em up

[–] PenisDuckCuck9001 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There's 1 major problem with this. What if a poor person without health insurance finds this? What if someone picks it up off the ground and gets cured of rabies without ruining their life in medical debt? Won't someone think of the shareholders? How will capitalism survive if people start picking these up off the ground instead of paying $60k per pill?

/s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I doubt many people actually pay that much for their meds.

They'll go broke instead, eternally in debt, unable to save up enough or get a credit for, say, buying a house to save on horribly inflated rent prices, always living in fear of being fired and ending up homeless until they get arrested for not having a home to sleep in, sent to for-profit prisons at the expense of other taxpayers, possibly even put to work as a legal slave...

...but I can't imagine the pharma company does actually get all of those 60k on average. Maybe 20k-40k - hardly enough to pay their shareholders, let alone their insurance subsidiaries' employees for the soul-crushing job of listening to patients breaking down because the insurance won't cover their child's life-saving treatment for some reason rep, patient, doctor and executives all know is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

While i do think humans caring for nature is best done by not touching it, this is one thing humans can do for nature.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

We've been doing this on the european continent. In the form of fish heads carrying the vaccine. Almost no rabies cases ever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Nature needs agency.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Much of Europe (ie the rich parts) is free of terrestrial rabies because of such programs. Bats really get around, though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did they really just cover the whole blister thing with fishmeal? I mean including the plastic?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Yeah the raccoons eat the fishmeal then peel back the protective backing, retrieve the pill and don’t wash it before eating it.

NO! Everyone knows those things are unopenable without scissors or a hammer or an RPG or something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Rabioli rabioli give me the formuoli

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a great way to evolve vaccine-resistant rabies

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

If you mean an Immune escape that is not a real problem for rabies because that virus has a slow evolution as you can tell from the fact that the same vaccines that were used in the 80s are still used today. Compare that for example to flu or Covid-19 vaccines where even two year old vaccine types are considered outdated and not used anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They don't mean immune escape. It's either an unclear joke or pseudoscientific bullshit based on a lack of knowledge around the immune system and diseases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks! Appreciate learning something new!