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I mean, you remember aids pandemic ? I don't think people (especially straight people) today realise just how devastating that was.

• TZubiri 2y ago
  I don't, I wasn't born. But I read about it and its magnitude was conveyed. I do know that it was and is highly tied to promiscuity as a risk factor. I also know that since it's not as lethal now, some people in those risk groups just risk it more often, with condomless prep even. Also a pandemic is a spike in cases that needs to be considered over the long term. The risk of contracting diseases includes contracting a previously untestable slow onset disease and being an early patient of a pandemic, which usually happens to people with high partner count. It's like computer viruses, we fill a package.json with 100 dependencies which in turn have a supply chain (partner's partners) and install it on a vm anyways. That would be unthinkable 30 years ago, but now we have better cryptography, open source auditing OS level and kernel security. Yet ransomware attacks are not less common than the early trojans.