Depends on your definition. Once symptoms occur, yes, it's basically always fatal. But there's a vaccine against it. Which completely goes against this entire post.
Uh...where are you getting that? Rabies accounts for about 59,000 deaths each year, on average, you only see around two deaths in the U.S. per year from rabies.
Any idea on when that will happen? I'm starting to think it won't.
This is parody, right? Lol
Not this. Not at all.
If you believe that column, you had better do some hard digging. First off, the person writing that column is literally a scholarly member of the Catholic Church. He's the Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University professor. He works for the church treating abusers (ie covering for them).
The fact that he says that the church has "used best practices to deal with this issue since 2002" is a ludicrous statement.
The Catholic church, to this day keeps their records of abuses secret unless brought to court, moving priests around to different diocese. Plante also claims in that article that the number of abuses has "dropped to a trickle." That's horse shit. The very offices in charge of dealing with abuse in the church can barely keep up with the amount of complaints streaming into it. The number has grown 4x in the past decade.
The report cited in this column is the John Jay report, which doesn't say that only 4 percent of the Catholic clergy are predators. It says that 4 percent of the clergy serving in the United States had formerly had abuse complaints made against them. And do you know how I know those numbers are wrong? Because the AP discovered more clergy members (1700) who had had complaints filed against them whose behavior had actively been hidden by the Church.
As for school teachers, that 5-7 percent is not the number of teachers being accused of abuse, that's the percentage of students that claim sexual abuse in school. Now, that's still a horrible thing, but when you look at the ratio of students to teachers, 5-7 percent of students is a much larger number than 5-7 percent of teachers. It also is the inverse of the church situation.
There's a lot to be said for sexual harassment and sexual assault in school and other places. But it's absolutely insane to compare public schools to the Catholic church and its systematic cover up of literally thousands of abusers world wide.
LGBT scout masters were not the one doing it though.
So we're really cheering on a dictator responsible for terrible crimes against humanity now?
This right here is a prime example of misunderstanding correlation vs. causality.
Fresh water and sewage infrastructure doesn't "cure" any disease. It simple makes it more difficult for the disease to spread through populations.
All of these graphs and bullshit statements in the OP are making that mistake. It's like if you lived in the Alien universe and said "Does killing the xenomorph even work? Look, all these people who aren't in the same room with it are completely fine."
It's pretty obvious that an increase in sanitation and hygiene goes a long way in preventing the spread of disease. Why do you think doctors say that the best way to avoid getting sick is to wash your hands? But having clean drinking water and access to soap doesn't inoculate your body against a disease.
A vaccine does.