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> If any of that, helped even a little, we'd be doing it modernity too. Rabies vaccines can be taken post-exposure, so no, we wouldn't. Actually that makes m
by im3w1l 3y ago
> If any of that, helped even a little, we'd be doing it modernity too.
Rabies vaccines can be taken post-exposure, so no, we wouldn't.
Actually that makes me consider another possibility.. what if the stone does something similar to a vaccine? From what I understand the issue with rabies is that the immune system doesn't realize anything is wrong and so doesn't mount a response until it's too late. But vaccines have some property that makes it target the vaccine and thus the virus in an early stage. Maybe somehow intentionally inflecting trauma kicks the immune system into overdrive causing it to respond earlier? Or maybe the heat somehow deactivates or denatures the virus so that whatever it does to inhibit the immune system is disabled. I believe certain variolation protocols did use various primitive ways of disabling or weakening the pox virus.
Yes maybe this is all speculative wishful thinking... But if people swore by the method I do want to kinda give it the benefit of the doubt.
- zoeysmithe 3y agoWe also swore by exorcisms and beating children half toe death to "teach them a lesson." In fact, in MANY parts of the world today the preferred treatment for things like schizophrenia is exorcism. I argued with someone from a poor country on reddit over this recently. It was depressing and wild to hear someone defending exorcism as a normal thing. Tradition is usually irrational, oppressive, and abusive, especially towards vulnerable groups like sick people, children, women, minorities, LGBTQ peoples, etc.