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    in Bring the Noise

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    Well, this happened to my fiancee yesterday. Living in the middle east is such a fucking headache. (Floyd is our dog)

     

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    Ok so last night I went for a run with floyd  and at the end of the run a vicious street cat attacked us, chasing us, it scratched my ankle drawing blood, don't think it bit me but it might have (did not get floyd). I got home and cleaned the cut and went to the 24 hour clinic. They gave me a tetanus shot and told me to go to the ministry of health office in the morning. They didn't have the rabies vaccine on hand--only hospitals and ministry of health offices have it.

    The ministry of health people refused to give me the vaccine and condescendingly mansplained/israelisplained to me that my chances of getting rabies were low because 'there are no rabies in jerusalem'. they told me the cat attacked me because 'the dog was there' and asked why the dog didn't drive the cat off. also told  me 'I've had 147 people come in this month  complaining they were attacked by an animal. it's common. if  I give you the vaccine I'll have to give it to everyone who comes in'. They also told me 'if anyone else complains about being bit by this cat, we'll call you.' I said that there was a far from 0 chance I was exposed to rabies and rabies without treatment is fatal 100 percent of the time. He told me I 'wasn't getting it' and I was basically kicked out.

    Max had the good idea to say that the attack happened not in Jerusalem but in the north where there have been confirmed rabies cases  as recently as a few months ago. In fact there are regular rabies cases in northern israel, the beit shemesh area, and the west bank, the later two of which are quite close to jerusalem and not hermetically sealed off from jerusalem. We also decided to say that the cat bit me. With this, I was able to get a referral from  the family doctor to the emergency room at the hospital.

    At the hospital, they asked me what happened, I said I was attacked by a wild cat  and they said Ok, you need the rabies vaccine. Fortunately I got it around 22 hours after the attack. Would have been nice if I got it 14 hours after the attack but the ministry of health would rather I die of rabies than admit that... ???

     

    Other comics we read recently

    in Comics

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    The Highest House by Mike Carey, art by Peter Gross. Obviously anything the two of them do is going to be a winner but the whole thing is only about 150ish pages and I'm really left wanting more. I heard sales weren't so great though, shame. Well worth a read, classic Vertigo feel but a bit more high fantasy.

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    Other comics we read recently

    in Comics

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    Yeah Ennis is not a writer who has any reason to write in 616 or ultimate continuity, he's not going to work off it and the things he wants to do don't really fit with marvel anyway. He's also gotten much better at writing in an American cadence without the characters sounding Irish which I think has always been a weakness of his.

    Doom Patrol

    in Comics in other media

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    On 2/19/2019 at 8:27 PM, Christian said:

     

    I don't know....has Cyborg really become a popular enough character in the DC mythos that throwing him on to different teams can increase fan interest?

    The  animated Titans show from the early 2000s was a huge hit so maybe they're hoping it'll help specifically with a TV audience

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