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dcy0477 t1_ja8qf3m wrote

Reply to The 1st Cadillac fleetWOOD by JesseIsanass

This took some planning. The tree is perfectly centered; like it was planted there on purpose. The opening in the hood is the right size; maybe it was gradually enlarged over the years?

The tree is quite a few years old. The car must have been fairly new when all this started?

And....don't forget to notice the OTHER CAR in the background.

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KillstardoAbominate t1_ja8qdlw wrote

Reply to comment by bulboustadpole in I found a bat in my pool. He’s very much alive. I set him in the sun to dry out away from my dog by Handicapreader

> What evidence were you able to gather from a photo of a bat that makes you think it likely has rabies? > >

Simply the fact that it exists and it's a fucking bat. Bats are among the most common animals to have and/or spread rabies. It's pretty fucking simple. If you handle a bat you should probably get the rabies vaccine.

https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/animals/bats/index.html

Edit to add:

>I would love to see some numbers on how many rabies vaccines are administered in the US. My guess is not as much as you would think.

According to the CDC, "only" 30,000 - 60,000 people per year receive rabies vaccines for postexposure.

https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/usa/surveillance/human_rabies.html

Also, notice in the list of rabies cases, 13 of the 25 were from bats and how some of them occurred without a known bite.

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Hutch25 t1_ja8oz7c wrote

Reply to comment by bulboustadpole in I found a bat in my pool. He’s very much alive. I set him in the sun to dry out away from my dog by Handicapreader

That’s the thing. People don’t get bit by anything that would carry rabies very often. And in an age of countless antibiotics odds are you clean it out before anything happens anyways like hydrogen peroxide which is very common in many households. Got Lysol wipes in your house? Well those work against rabies.

Also, most scavenger animals have a defence against it. Especially the most common stereotypical ones.

Most scavengers have characteristics which defend against it like:

Raccoons being picky eaters

Vultures being able to kill the virus with their stomachs

Most bats exclusively eat bugs or mice, and when bats do get infected they are often thrown out of their packs to starve to death, or killed on the spot.

Just about everyone vaccinates their pets

And weirdly enough mice and rats themselves don’t even get infected very often, they are very good at picking good food to eat in most situations.

Most animals a human will ever meet wouldn’t get infected, and when they do most people know to stay away and or are vaccinated.

If it was as dangerous to us as some people think, we would be all dead by now. But because it’s so rare to catch we can just kinda live our lives.

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