Posted on 10/06/2020 6:24:25 AM PDT by karpov
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, many states are in varying states of opening. As states open, we should not forget about our sexual health. COVID-19 has impacted American sexuality, although the impact may be different depending on a person’s age, relationship status, or sexual preferences, etc. Due to the stressors of COVID- 19, people may find themselves engaging in behavior that they did not before the pandemic. For example, some teenagers may turn to sex to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. Unprotected sex could lead to serious health consequences, such as contracting HIV. There are, however, medications on the market that can prevent HIV.
Truvada and Descovy are potential options to provide a highly effective means for preventing HIV. Many people who stand to benefit from PrEP do not use these medications because they do not think they are at risk. (Truvada and Descovy, it should be noted, do not prevent other sexually transmitted diseases.) As a society, we must change what we think about who is at risk. Anyone who has unprotected sex with another person whose HIV status is unknown is potentially at risk for HIV; therefore, taking PrEP is a good way to prevent infection.
Traditionally, HIV has been considered a disease affecting only people from specific groups, such as those who inject drugs, have particular sexual orientations, or have multiple sexual partners. While people who inject drugs and men who have sex with men may have higher rates of HIV as a group, they are not the only people at risk. HIV is not a problem belonging to certain groups but rather a universal health issue associated with sexually-active people who do not know the HIV status of their partners.
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Avoid butt sex, and IV drug use.
Avoid butt sex, and IV drug use.
I thought there was a new drug for HIV/AIDS treatment. Trinoassatall.
Butt they’re so much fun...
So, in summary, the media sez wear a mask, but you can pork a friend in the butt - but take those drugs to protect yourself.
And so goes the “respect” for our uneducated marshmallow major news whores.
I’m homophobic, aren’t I?
How about stop pounding each other in the arse!
I’m homophobic, aren’t I?
So, butt drug abuse is ok... right?
As the HIV drug commercial says over and over on cable TV, “Just keep being you!”
Depends, what’s a butt drug? Something a proctologist prescribes?
I always think these articles are used to keep the HIV money flowing. Throw a scary article out there and the government says, “oh yeah. Send more money to this program.”
I had to say it out loud a couple times to get it. Heh.
I did see a show where women in Thailand were smoking cigarettes from their vagina. True story. I’d not want to give society any further suggestions. Ha!
>>Unprotected sex could lead to serious health consequences, such as contracting HIV. There are, however, medications on the market that can prevent HIV.
Don’t have sex with anonymous strangers in bars, bathhouses, and park restrooms. Don’t shoot IV drugs and share needles with same.
And even if you don’t get AIDS you could get Herpes, HPV, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Genital Warts, etc.
Wasn’t Fauxie working on a vaccine for that?
How’d that work out?
>>HIV is not a problem belonging to certain groups but rather a universal health issue associated with sexually-active people who do not know the HIV status of their partners.
California and the homofascist lobby want to prohibit the disclosure of HIV status to sex partners. It used to be criminal to knowing spread AIDS.
But I guess only potential CV19 carriers can be shamed these days. “YOU COULD KILL GRANDMA! STAY HOME! DON’T GO TO BARS! BE ALONE!”
Abstinence among the alphabet people? Unheard of.
Apparently Fucci is bringing back the myth of rampant heterosexual AIDS.
Did he ever rebuke his lifelong friend Cuomo for calling CV19 European Virus?
Many days late, many dollars short. There are prophylactic measures and modified behavior that will aid greatly in avoiding contracting either HIV/AIDS or COVID-19 Wuhan virus, and these should be applied judiciously and with measured effect. The virus is now endemic in the environment, some places much more densely than others, and it is the DENSITY of the number of HIV/AIDS or COVID-19 virus particles absorbed that alter the intensity of the infection. UV light, ozone, household bleach, even most brands of hand soap, all effectively reduce the density of the number of virus particles drifting around in the environment. Everybody has, by now, absorbed some quantity of these virus particles. Within the body, several defenses exist that mitigate against the replication of the HIV/AIDS or COVID-19 Wuhan virus. One is the presence of sufficient quantity of zinc ion, and another is the necessary amount of some form of ionophore that enables the zinc ion to enter the virus particle. Vitamin A, Vitamin D3, hydroxychloroquine, and ivermectin all have this particular quality, there may be others as well. But first, there has to enough zinc ion available, which can be provided through diet, or by taking a supplement at such levels as to be well above the normal daily requirement (about 7 mg daily), but below the beginnings of toxic levels (100-300 mg daily). For those of you who worry about such things, a lethal dose of zinc ion is in excess of 2,000 mg daily.
COVID-19 works its worst mischief when it settles in the tissues of the lungs, causing a vast overreaction of inflammation and essentially asphyxiating the patient, and even ventilators, at this stage, are of limited value. HIV/AIDS works on other tissues of the body, in some instances causing a rare form of cancer, or inhibiting the normal immune response of the “killer” cells, causing them to attack normal body cells.
The human physiology has evolved to the point where most infections can be quelled by the body’s own defenses, particularly the immune response. Once a microbial invader has been identified, the “killer” cells in the bloodstream then seek out this virus or microbe, and essentially eat it, like the Pac-man gobbler moving through the game. Once activated, these “killer” cells continue their patrol of the blood vessels and tissues of the body, insuring the invader does not again gain control of vulnerable tissues. In younger persons, these defenses are much sharper and more reactive, as the body adapts to each new invasive element. But even the best defense can be overwhelmed, if the invasive element is in great enough preponderance.
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