afaik that's not true at all. Rabies isnt a "few hours" sort of disease unless you got bit on the neck maybe. Most bites are on extremities. If you are bit you have to get the vaccine within a limited amount of time, like a day or 2 (before it spreads to the brain) in order for it to be effective. If you get it too late it's a done deal. Something like 1 person ever has survived untreated rabies (last i read about it 10 years ago maybe more now) and basically that person was put into an induced coma to give the brain a chance to recover from the virus on its own. There's no "treatment" for rabies

Nope. By the time you have symptoms you are already dead. There is no treatment at that point; the prognosis is a wooden box.

The treatment for rabies is the vaccine, because that prevents the disease from progressing from the exposure part to the “you’re already dead” part.

You are incorrect. The rabies vaccine is the most effective prophylaxis against rabies. The post exposure protocol involves injecting immunoglobulin into the area around the wound, to bind to rabies virus in the vicinity of the wound, as well as administering the rabies vaccine (which is itself a protocol of multiple shots spaced out in time). It is the immunoglobulin which is the delaying treatment intended to give you more time for your immune system to develop its own antibodies against rabies virus after being stimulated by the vaccine.

I think you're a little confused. The vaccine is protective and provides outstanding immunity, though it's standard protocol to get a booster if there's suspected exposure.

For those who are unvaccinated when exposed, there's a more involved post-exposure prophylaxis that involves vaccination +/- immunoglobulin injections. That, again, provides excellent protection.

The vaccine is the treatment here. I don’t know that I’d go out of my way to spread misinformation on this one