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▲ 1 r/rabies

Possibility of exposure

I have read the FAQ. I have had a hole in my bedroom window screen large enough for a bat to get through that I have forgotten to patch up for some time now. Honestly I have always just considered the possibility bugs getting in (and they do of course from time to time) until I was reminded about bats and rabies by an article I saw online recently. I used to have anxiety about rabies like I am sure we all do. This has somewhat reactivated that anxiety. I have slept with that window open for a good amount of nights now. I actually think the hole has been there for possibly a few years now and the window is usually open when I sleep during the warmer months. I am in New Haven county Connecticut.

Now, I know the likelihood of a bat WITH rabies coming in AND biting me or scratching me is quite low, but I really could use some advice or something to soothe my mind right now. I have a feeling doctors wouldn't give me a PEP unless I lied to them and told them I found one in my room. Even then, if there is no mark or wound, would they still give it to me? And does a PEP HAVE to be injected into the site of the wound to be effective anyway?

I also dread the fact that rabies has an incubation period and that period could theoretically, though only in extremely rare cases, be up to 6 years, so I have read. I don't want to carry this around with me for potentially that long. With the way my mind works, though, it certainly will.

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u/Lost-Reputation669 — 1 day ago

The future and ending of Berserk

Let's just say I don't envy Koji Mori and the studio.

I just really don't see how berserk could possibly be concluded in a satisfying way. I see fans on YouTube and Reddit always talking about a showdown against Griffith and the god hand and Griffith getting his comeuppance but I mean... That just seems tonally and thematically incompatible with the rest of the story. That shit is just too shonen, even though berserk is becoming more and more shonen and guts gets a power up in this most recent chapter, but I mean the kind of power up required to take on the God hand would just make no sense. They are literal reality warpers. But then again, the scenario being painted by fantasia is basically apocalyptic for mankind... So I just don't know. Will mankind need to be saved by guts and crew as a byproduct of freeing Casca?

In order to get casca back, guts is going to have to face off against Griffith because of the whole moonlight boy thing. As long as Griffith is still alive in his physical vessel he is going to want to have casca with him so he doesn't go straying off to wherever she is as the moonlight boy. So there is direct conflict there. And at this point now that guts knows, he would try and kill the moonlight boy pry. So in order to have casca guts is going to have to face off against Griffith but how are you going to make sense of that? It is more so that Casca can be saved from Griffith because she is essentially his prisoner rn. Any ending in which she isn't saved would not be satisfying, and any ending where Griffith just outright loses just seems too obvious for a series as complex and nuanced as berserk.

Handling this correctly is nearly impossible... Even for Miura it must have seemed impossible. The truth is that I am not sure Miura had a planned ending because that wasn't his style when it came to Berserk. He wrote most of this story as he went along.

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u/Lost-Reputation669 — 6 days ago
▲ 2 r/rant

Pluralizing words with apostrophes

Why am I seeing this more and more these days? We learn how to pluralize words in literal first grade. Can someone who does this and is a native English speaker please tell me where your mind is at and your thought process? Apostrophes are for possessive nouns and contractions. I swear I never used to see this until recently and it is proof that we are gradually unlearning how to read and write and speak.

"We went to the park and listened to the birds". There is no apostrophe before the "s" in "birds", people.

Another mistake I see a lot: "How it sounded like" Please don't use "how" and "like" together like that. It is "what it sounded like" or "how it sounded".

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u/Lost-Reputation669 — 1 month ago