Posted on 04/12/2022 12:37:13 PM PDT by algore
Gonorrhea and syphilis cases reached record levels during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to data released Tuesday from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
The latest figures — part of an ongoing upward trend — follow Congress’ decision last month to provide far less funding to sexual health clinics that provide free and subsidized testing for sexually transmitted diseases, education, contraception and other services than providers say is needed to reverse the current course
Gonorrhea cases increased 10 percent in 2020, and syphilis infections were up 7 percent. Congenital syphilis, which had all but disappeared in the U.S. at the beginning of the century, increased 15 percent in 2020, contributing to at least 149 stillbirths and infant deaths that year.
And while the new report shows that chlamydia cases declined 13 percent in 2020, top health officials believe that reflects a drop in screenings for the frequently asymptomatic disease, not an actual reduction in the number of infections.
CDC officials told reporters on a call Tuesday that their not-yet-released preliminary data from 2021 indicate the situation has worsened, with higher rates of syphilis and congenital syphilis than in 2020.
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[Maybe I should keep my schlong covered when I’m out in public..... ]
Please do!
But the irony is that if COVID was something that mostly male homosexuals could get there would be no lockdowns or anythign because that would have been viewed as homophobic
I guess the takeaway is that some people weren’t social distancing very well.
Social distancing and a mask should cure STDs?
STD’s are 100% preventable without any public funding.
Maybe there’s no funding because people don’t really care if a bunch of perverts infect themselves because they can’t keep it in their pants?
Society has bigger problems to worry about. Your private parts are a, well, private problem.
According to I Kings 11.3, Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
Oh, I forgot, I already do!
Yup, exactly. Everytime they talk about stuff we shouldn’t be allowed to do because they socialized something without consulting us, because we might be adding cost to the pool, they never seem to include that one.
Cover your stump before you hump!
Or save it for marriage, even better. No worries.
You are a hero if you wear a mask...but you wear a condom, you are a weinie!
Everybody stop having sex for 2 weeks to flatten the curve.
I'm in camp with Mpudi from "The Gods Must be Crazy". d;^)
Steyn : How come suddenly you're an expert on women?
Mpudi : I got seven wives. How many you got?
Steyn : So why aren't you at home with your seven wives?
Mpudi : I know how to marry them. Nobody knows how to live with them.
This uptick is largely among gay men. No shock there. I have to believe this is an easily avoidable condition for most.
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Except for the congenital syphillis.
How are they spreading? Masks on everything and 6 feet apart.
The biggest place for the uptick in STD’s id, believe or not, nursing homes and the frequency of Elder Sex.
Not really, nursing homes
It’s happening in the nursing homes.
I have heard about the villages in florida too.
Seems yechy
53 percent of all the reported cases of STDs in 2020 were among people between the ages of 15 and 24,
Nursing homes are now accepting people under 25?
Funding won’t stop STDs.
Morality will.
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