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Originally Posted by Parnassia
Maybe. I was thinking about the silent majority who reads this stuff, inhales what they want to hear that supports fears or suspicions they already have, but who don't post?
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Alas, I suspect those people are determined to terrify themselves and are beyond the reach of mere reason. But your links are a great resource for people who aren't bound and determined to be fearful of the entire world.
Moral of the story (for those too lazy to read Parnassia's links): Leave bats alone. Don't pick them up or net them unless you have some heavy leather gloves on your hands to protect yourself from bites. If you wake up to discover that a bat got into the house overnight while you were sleeping, get the rabies shots - but if a bat gets inside during the day or at night while you are awake, just stay away from it and open some windows so it can find its way back outside (which it will do - it wants to get back outside just as badly as you want it to be gone).
There's no reason to get rabies from a bat, not here in the US where rabies treatments are readily available. And there's no reason to persecute bats, either; on balance, they do us far more good than harm. Leave them alone to eat mosquitoes in peace!
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