STI? What happened to STD? Have the communists changed wording and history again?
“STI” is another attempt to “de-stigmatize” what we’re talking about. “Disease” implies sickness with symptoms. “Infection” can imply experienced symptoms but is more just a statement that a disease pathogen is present, though sometimes asymptomatic.
I really don’t get these devious semantic games. HIV infection is called “HIV status” but not AIDS unless the infection causes large enough drop in defensive T-cells. So you can be “HIV-positive” without having AIDS. That’s like a woman 3 weeks pregnant saying she’s not pregnant because it’s not affecting her body yet.
Remember that asymptomatic COVID was still called a “disease” worthy of state-enforced quarantine and/or the constant wearing of face diapers.
My last meeting with HR was to try to explain that the folders labeled STD stood for "Short Term Disability" and I was not keeping track of employees with social diseases.
I really wish we would just go back to VD. It is short and there are not a lot of other things it could be.