I read a news story about a guy who died from rabies after receiving a kidney transplant. Although nobody was aware when he died, the donor of the kidney had contracted rabies after being scratched by a skunk several weeks before he died and his organs were harvested.

I got curious about how the donor got scratched by the skunk, but instead only found this article from August, which informed me that the U.S. has a rabies outbreak, and has more deaths from rabies in the last year than several previous years…

Not sure if people were already talking about this outbreak, and I just missed it? It’s been a bit of a weird year, and there’s been a lot of crazy shit to keep up with.

Anyway, this is also how I ended up reading the sentence informing me some people are worried dogs are getting autism from vaccines.

Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows

    • gnutrino@programming.devEnglish
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      4 days ago

      some people didn’t like anyone who knew more than they did … The way things were going, if [they] wanted to throw stones at anyone who knew more than them, they’d soon have to throw them at the pigs

      Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Socioeconomic circumstances. And failures therein.

      Who could have tought that saving on education to get back to the good old times raise your slave class, would have the unintended side-effect of dismembering the country they love so much.

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      5 days ago

      There times when I see obvious disinformation attacking America, and I will immediately stand up for my country and call out the bullshit.

      Then I see something like this, and it leaves me feeling like I just stood up for a family member I felt was being unfairly picked on, who in response immediately decided to shit his pants and light a cigarette while filling up his car with gas.