• @[email protected]
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    312 years ago

    Alright, give this guy an old fashioned blood letting with some leeches when he’s feeling under the weather.

  • @[email protected]
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    22 years ago

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

      • theodewere
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        22 years ago

        that’s the problem with Great Ideas, eventually carnival hucksters and conmen are selling it out of bottles in the parking lot

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      I mean, it makes some sense if you get bitten by a snake, since its poison is not literally everywhere around you (hence why in older time they try to suck it out as much as possible). But the problem for viruses is that as soon as you stop gushing out blood, the bacteria/viruses nearby the wound will try to enter the bloodstream anyway

      edit: or the fact that the veins are a one way, therefore if the virus is already inside, and you let blood out, you let out the blood which is clean. Or the fact that once inside, the virus might already be infecting cells and therefore is out of the bloodstream. or…

    • Ser Salty
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      232 years ago

      Just start squeezing those arteries like tube of toothpaste

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    They must be thinking that our body is like a municipal water system. The water is usually kept at high pressure so that if there’s a leak or rupture, the water will gush out violently enough to prevent anything from contaminating the system for everyone else.

    The key thing they’re missing though is gushing violently. The body generally doesn’t bleed vigorously enough to prevent foreign agents from getting in – and most of the time when it does, you’re having severe blood loss.

    The only exception I think is around the anus. If you’ve had hemorrhoids you’ve seen just how much they can bleed, and I think that’s to generally keep things out since it’s an unclean area. Still, if you sat down with a bleeding ass in contaminated water, you’re still going to get infected.

    • GigglyBobble
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      222 years ago

      Still, if you sat down with a bleeding ass in contaminated water, you’re still going to get infected.

      Not to mention… sharks!

  • @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    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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    At some point you stop bleeding Doogie Howser. If you’re lucky that’ll be before you run out of blood, in which case, according to your theory of medicine, you’ll be infected anyway.

    If it’s after you run out of blood, well, infection wasn’t your main problem.

  • regalia
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    152 years ago

    Don’t correct them and just let nature run its course

    • @[email protected]
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      Tetanus is a horrible way to go, even for anti-waxx’ers and even worse if it’s their kids. Who have little to say in the matter.

      • regalia
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        32 years ago

        It’s horrible if it’s unavoidable. They’re consciously choosing this lol.

    • QuinceDaPence
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      Assuming you’re actually asking. It’s a disease caused by a bacteria in the soil when it gets in your blood stream.

      People often think it’s caused by getting stabbed or cut with rusty metal but it’s just correlation rather than causation. Something metal that’s been sitting outside is just usually the way that you’ll get cut and if it’s outside it’s probably rusty.

      You could have clean rusty metal not give it to you, and brand new metal or a stick give it to you.

      Tetanus is also known as “Lockjaw” due to the symptoms.

      It’s preventable by a mildly uncomfortable vaccine that everyone acts like is the most painful shot ever.

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        To add on: the bacteria are anaerobic, meaning they thrive in environments without air. This is also the rusty nail effect–the nail will push the bacteria into your body where there is little air. You most likely will not get sick from tetanus from a superficial wound.

    • I Cast Fist
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      I think the dude there already has idiot tetanus, or maybe it’s idiot headanus.

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

  • @[email protected]
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    282 years ago

    People are just so confident in the bullshit they think is correct and have no proof of. It sounds right so it is. Must be.

    • @[email protected]
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      At some point I feel like we should just let these people conduct their own health experiments, the problem will take care of on itself. You can only try your best at educating people but if they choose to be stupid there is nothing you can do.