So cat owners can pay $1 per month more on their car insurance?
Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)
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Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)
#52You mean if I was TOXO free, I could be an even MORE aggressive driver? Totally going to mainline some Ivermectin.
Lots of health benefits from killing the little bugs. Bonus: It's available over the counter!
Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)
#53Your reminder that if you own cats that don't go outdoors they are not a risk factor for toxoplasmosis. Only outdoor and stray cats get the parasite. Most cases of toxoplasmosis come from eating undercooked meat in any case.
More info here if you want it https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1118145/
Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)
#54So cat people can’t drive well? We’ve always known this.
Cat ownership doesn't even come up as a major sources of infection when studies are done. Wild cats can have it but the source of infection is the dirt they've used, which means house cats are unrelated and no risk.
"A total of 252 women with toxoplasmosis, along with 748 controls from Naples, Lausanne, Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels, and Milan, were interviewed by telephone or in person. Overall, eating raw or undercooked beef, lamb, or other meats; contact with soil; and travel outside the country were major sources of infection."
Cats don't even make the list of major sources of infection. Further,
"The association of cats and human toxoplasmosis is difficult to assess by epidemiological surveys because soil, not the cats, is the main culprit. Oocysts are not found on cat fur and are often buried in soil along with cat faeces.11 Therefore, direct contact with cats is irrelevant with respect to T gondii transmission, and soil contact is universal and difficult to avoid."
Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)
#55So cat owners can pay $1 per month more on their car insurance?
Cat ownership doesn't even come up as a major sources of toxoplasmosis infection when studies are done. Wild cats can have it but the source of infection is the dirt they've used, which means house cats are unrelated and no risk.
"A total of 252 women with toxoplasmosis, along with 748 controls from Naples, Lausanne, Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels, and Milan, were interviewed by telephone or in person. Overall, eating raw or undercooked beef, lamb, or other meats; contact with soil; and travel outside the country were major sources of infection."
Cats don't even make the list of major sources of infection. Further,
"The association of cats and human toxoplasmosis is difficult to assess by epidemiological surveys because soil, not the cats, is the main culprit. Oocysts are not found on cat fur and are often buried in soil along with cat faeces.11 Therefore, direct contact with cats is irrelevant with respect to T gondii transmission, and soil contact is universal and difficult to avoid."
Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)
#56I wonder what BAC would generate the same effect.
There's no universe in which the answer to that question doesn't piss a lot of people off. On one hand you remind people just how un-impaired various BACs are and that pisses them off. On the other hand you make mildly sick people look like drunks and it becomes a potential pretext for denying people freedom of movement.
What you mean by how unimpaired various BACs are? I would think there would be a fairly tight curve of BAC to reaction time for an individual.
Of course most of driving is so easy that I’m sure a huge percent of the time drunk driving has no consequences, but haven’t we all been in an occasional situation that requires fast reaction to narrowly avoid a crash?
Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It’s common now for people actively seeking any opportunity to be offended on behalf of someone else. I never understood why people get so angry at other people for showing solidarity, even if they aren't part of the oppressed group. Why does it make you so mad? Seriously, I don't get it. Is it because no one stands up for you? Standing up for a minority group that you are not part of is called being part of a comm…
>I never understood why people get so angry at other people for showing solidarity, even if they aren't part of the oppressed group. There's a pretty wide gulf between solidarity and getting offended on other people's behalf. If a slight doesn't effect you then you shouldn't be the first mover. Let the slighted people decide they are in fact slighted before you get all up in arms over it >Why does it make you so mad?…
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Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It’s common now for people actively seeking any opportunity to be offended on behalf of someone else. I never understood why people get so angry at other people for showing solidarity, even if they aren't part of the oppressed group. Why does it make you so mad? Seriously, I don't get it. Is it because no one stands up for you? Standing up for a minority group that you are not part of is called being part of a comm…
>I never understood why people get so angry at other people for showing solidarity, even if they aren't part of the oppressed group. There's a pretty wide gulf between solidarity and getting offended on other people's behalf. If a slight doesn't effect you then you shouldn't be the first mover. Let the slighted people decide they are in fact slighted before you get all up in arms over it >Why does it make you so mad?…
You're putting yourself in charge of what people are and are not allowed to be offended by. Like everyone else in power who wants to keep it that way.
Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I never understood why people get so angry at other people for showing solidarity, even if they aren't part of the oppressed group. There's a pretty wide gulf between solidarity and getting offended on other people's behalf. If a slight doesn't effect you then you shouldn't be the first mover. Let the slighted people decide they are in fact slighted before you get all up in arms over it >Why does it make you so mad?…
You're putting yourself in charge of what people are and are not allowed to be offended by. Like everyone else in power who wants to keep it that way.
Disagree. OP stated their thoughts on the topic at hand. You are projecting and twisting that into OP “taking charge” and again twisting that into “asserting power” somehow.
Re: Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (2002)
#60So cat people can’t drive well? We’ve always known this.
Only cat people who don't eat garlic. Garlic is the old weapon against toxoplasmosis