• MyFairJulia@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    He’s right. I kept the wound open and completely bled out. Lost all of my blood. But it’s worth it because i didn’t get Tetanus.

    Did you know you can stop rabies by having someone chop your head off?

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      Did you know you can stop rabies by having someone chop your head off?

      That’s probably the preferred treatment over dying of rabies induced violent psychosis.

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    10 months ago

    All you have to do is tell the tetanus “I do not consent,” and by law, it cannot infect you.

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        10 months ago

        I can imagine the guy just pumping out his own blood like crazy laughing hysterically “You can’t poison me you fools!”

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    He’s technically correct - if you bleed fast enough for long enough, you won’t get infected by anything that needs a live host to grow.

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    They’re not entirely wrong, which is frustrating.

    Tetanus is an anaerobic bacteria which means exposure to air will kill it. If a cut is bleeding that means it’s at least partially exposed and may prevent tetanus. The reason people tend to get tetanus infections from puncture wounds is because the wound heals up and seals out the air.

    Also, letting a cut bleed for a bit is one way of flushing any foreign material from the wound, which can help. But you still need antibiotics and a bandage to reduce the risk of infection.

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      Yeah, it’s incredibly frustrating when propaganda uses partially true information to push their agenda. From a first aid perspective, letting the wound bleed a bit and get oxygen exposure can reduce the initial infection. You should absolutely get the vaccine though because why fucking risk it?

      edit: here is more than you ever need to know about tetanus: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/tetanus.html

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    I hope this person learns by first hand how, for instance, AIDS is transferred.

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    I can’t be the only person not totally dissapointed at how meth lab medical this person’s advice is, but like fucking sad because there are three other people who liked this meaning there are more decimal bound IQ meatbags who would take this as solid advice.

    That person’s grade of stupid is not a freak one off. There are others!

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    Darwin used to call it “Natural selection”, now we call it “Being confidently incorrect”

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        I don’t think the person you replied to was talking about social darwinism

        From your article…

        The core idea of Social Darwinism is that the wealthy and powerful enjoy the privileges they do because they are more fit in terms of the traits favored by natural selection. The poor and powerless have less fit traits and therefore it is best to let them perish …

        This reprehensible (and bullshit) ideology is distinct from the idea of a person making an unsafe decision like golfing on a mountain in a thunderstorm that directly causes them to die.

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          the wealthy and powerful enjoy the privileges they do because they are more fit in terms of the traits favored by natural selection

          That’s literally ableism (and classism) and eugenics.

          This reprehensible (and bullshit) ideology is distinct from the idea of a person making an unsafe decision like golfing on a mountain in a thunderstorm that directly causes them to die.

          They are not distinct in any way shape or form, that’s just a rephrasing of that first quote of yours, and another way to say it (that most people use today) is “st.pid people shouldn’t breed” (or, because I predict you being a pedantic ass - “haha that st.pid person died without reproducing, lets give them an award!!1”), demonstrating exactly how inseparably intertwined eugenics (which is literally, and of course, incorrectly, but still, absolutely based on Darwin’s theory) and ableism are in the bullshit premise of the so called “Darwin awards”, which I am well aware the person I replied to was referencing, and which don’t provide you with the excuse or justification you thought they would (to give yourself permission to continue supporting them?), and you trying to ablesplain this shit to me just goes to show how little you actually understand of the subject.

          And if you genuinely believe any of that “justification” you wrote, you yourself are an ableist eugenicist, and if you don’t like hearing that, stop acting like one, and you won’t get called it again.