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> Will we ever get back to consequence freedom? honestly I should rephrase because I don't think we've ever had it, maybe in some isolated societies pre-coloni

• mmastrac 5y ago
  I'm not sure it's fear, but rather caution and awareness of consequences. Things can spiral out of control fairly quickly if caution falls out of fashion. Two major precautions prevent the vast, vast majority of disease and pregnancy in virtually all situations.
  • vmception 5y ago
    Routine testing fixes most of issues too, many people just have a stigma of testing at all, let alone as often as they should. At this point, some forms of sex workers that have more partners are cleaner than the general population, just because they test often and fix things early. Which is worth saying because it is counterintuitive to what many people think will happen, linking promiscuity to negative health outcome (because they themselves don't test and just accumulate probabilities of infections). the line isn't preventing all exposure to disease, its fixing them when exposure occurs. and yes, combining both strategies of protection alongside testing + early fixing reduces the negative consequence even more even when not preventing absolute exposure to disease.