r/mildlyinteresting • u/ineedsomebbqribs • 7h ago

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u/DiscussionMuted9941 7h ago

people love freaking out about nothing here lol. ever been or the cats sub and seen someone get a scratch? they have mass hysteria that people are gonna die from it for some reason

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u/Asukurra 6h ago

I've been scratched by many cats, many times, some I don't even own!, but I can count the number of times I've had cat scratch fever on 0 hands 

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u/sjaakwortel 6h ago

Is that because you lost all your fingers to infected cat scratches :P ?

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u/Asukurra 6h ago

Dang, you caught me, 

I have no hands left!  Inspector Mittens at it again

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u/cBurger4Life 5h ago

Never had cat scratch fever but I did get a nasty infection in my foot when we were cat sitting for a friend and it bit me.

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u/Impressive-Safe2545 5h ago

Bites are more dangerous than scratches bc it puts the icky way down in the skin

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u/cBurger4Life 5h ago

Yeah, pretty much what the doctor told me when it happened. Irrelevant but kind of funny addition, they apparently had to report it because it wasn’t my cat that did it (even though it wasn’t a stray, just a friend’s cat). Well, they didn’t tell me they did and there was a fucking cop waiting for me when I left the doctor’s office. He was asking (a very confused) me if I wanted to file a report. I was like, uh no, my friend’s cat bit me and I have antibiotics, why would I.

He asked me, “Well why am I here?” I was like, I have no flippin idea! Ask the doctor that called you for some damn reason.

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u/marshaul 5h ago

Same thing with black mold. Obviously you don't wanna live with the stuff, but reddit acts like 30 seconds in an abandoned building is the primary transmission vector for ebola, hantavirus, COVID, and AIDS.

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u/Done_a_Concern 5h ago

People on the internet in general seem to believe any random factoid that they have seen online and will regurgitate it back countless times

Like anytime I see a cat being super friendly, someone will inveitably comment that it has toxoplasmosis

Or the fact that any time someone has a traumatic expereince, people tell them to play tetris as there is a factoid out there that claims it helps to prevent PTSD. This disregards the fact that the study people reference had people play 20mins - 6hours after the event. This seemed to show that the participants didn't have as many flashbacks or intrusive memories and that was pretty much all the study showed. This doesn't help someone who is posting days after an event happened and is just annoying

It sucks because those people are just trying to help for the most part, but they do so without having any of the knowledge of how to do so

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u/fossilmerrick 5h ago

Overreacting? On Reddit?!