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> implicitly blesses dangerous behavior How does it do this? From where I'm sitting it's a very necessary protection for groups that are currently at risk and
by krageon 7y ago
> implicitly blesses dangerous behavior
How does it do this? From where I'm sitting it's a very necessary protection for groups that are currently at risk and definitely need protecting from these things, such as sex workers. Wearing a hard hat doesn't give blessing to accidentally dropping something heavy enough to kill without it, I fail to see how this is any different.
- azinman2 7y agoIt comes from personal experience. People feel like everything else is treatable so if HIV is prevented than they’re all good to take off the condom. Can’t tell you the number of times I heard this from friends about their own behavior, from people trying to have sex with me, and from others trying to have sex with my friends (condomless). Also: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29509889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29509889/
- foldr 7y ago> People feel like everything else is treatable Which common STDs other than HIV are not treatable?
- azinman2 7y agoIn terms of lack of cure, herpes and HPV to start. And there’s an increasing about of antibiotic resistant infections out there. But again my point is more about the future versus the current.
- foldr 7y agoHerpes is trivial medically, and HPV only has a minor health impact.
- azinman2 7y agoNot true: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/infectious-agents/hpv-and-cancer https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/i... None of this is relevant to my original point: future pandemics.
- foldr 7y agoHPV somewhat increases the risk of some cancers. You are still unlikely to get any of these cancers even if you have HPV. You can also get vaccinated against HPV, which reduces the risks still further. It seems pointless to speculate about future pandemics.