Posted on 06/24/2024 11:17:34 AM PDT by fwdude
Philadelphia ranks No. 1 among U.S. cities for new sexually transmitted infections—STIs—according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This is up from fifth place in 2023 and puts Philadelphia ahead of four cities that had previously rated higher: Memphis, Tennessee; Jackson, Mississippi; New Orleans and St. Louis.
Among 15- to 24-year-olds in Philadelphia, syphilis cases have shot up 30% since 2019, while cases of gonorrhea increased 18%. Chlamydia cases are down 13% from pre-pandemic numbers among this age group, but remain high.
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What you promote you get more of...ever since “education” got into the sex ed biz, the problems have increased exponentially.
It took a great deal of effort, but they made it to the top. It can be an example for the Eagles and the Flyers, maybe even the Sixers.
“Improving sex ed in schools “
Sex ed in the schools is what caused this problem and a list of others.
I could throw rocks in the air which COULD reduce the number of birds in the area. The problem in Philly and other places is not the lack of education nor a lack of home testing. It is a lack of morals and parental guidance.
End Welfare, Section 8 housing, and Medicaid and the STD rate will plummet. As will out-of-wedlock births.
Also a lack of daddies in the home.
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or academia groomers could quit sexualizing our kids, i bet that would lower STD’s.
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Kids putting more condoms on more cucumbers for practice should do the trick....
That’s how we got into this mess in the first place...................
People with morals could also lower the rate.
Philly ranks #1 as the fattest city and now it ranks #1 in STDs too. Just racking up those achievements!!
Follow the progression described by Thomas Sowell:
STAGE 1. THE “CRISIS”: Some situation exists, whose negative aspects the anointed propose to eliminate. Such a situation is routinely characterized as a “crisis,” even though all human situations have negative aspects, and even though evidence is seldom asked or given to show how the situation at hand is either uniquely bad or threatening to get worse.
STAGE 2. THE “SOLUTION”: Policies to end the “crisis” are advocated by the anointed, who say that these policies will lead to beneficial result A. Critics say that these policies will lead to detrimental result Z. The anointed dismiss these latter claims as absurd and “simplistic,” if not dishonest.
STAGE 3. THE RESULTS: The policies are instituted and lead to detrimental result Z.
STAGE 4. THE RESPONSE: Those who attribute detrimental result Z to the policies instituted are dismissed as “simplistic” for ignoring the “complexities” involved, as “many factors” went into determining the outcome. The burden of proof is put on the critics to demonstrate to a certainty that these policies alone were the only possible cause of the worsening that occurred. No burden of proof whatever is put on those who had so confidently predicted improvement. Indeed, it is often asserted that things would have been even worse, were it not for the wonderful programs that mitigated the inevitable damage from other factors.
I would like to see before/after statistical analyses of the impact of the introduction of the “pill” on lots of everyday human practices or behaviors. If this hasn’t already been done it would be a good topic for a Masters thesis.
Infection sounds so much less serious and less of deterrent to unsafe sex practices than Disease .
I mean really, who is afraid of a little infection - get a shot and you are cured.
Which is exactly the opposite of the truth.
Even the STDS from good old days like syphilis and the clap are becoming very drug resistant and hard to treat and many of the new STDs are have no real treatment and be very serious.
They are infections without an easy or even possible cure.
I miss the good old days of the scare photos of people with body parts rotting off and sex organs swelling to the size of basket balls due to STD infections
I don’t think the problem is not enough sex in school. I suspect the problem is too much of it.
It’s much like the “Dare” programs of the 70s,80s & 90s. Drug use by students went up after students went through the programs. Fifteen year-olds were like “Wow! That sounds like fun!”.
That and "PrEP," which makes a lot of sexual deviants feel bullet proof because it presumably protects against HIV. What they don't think about is that it doesn't protect against the range of bacterial STD's. And so, they "bareback" with abandon and then come down with all of these other diseases.
I read somewhere that after the massive push for PrEP, STD rates exploded, largely driven by the sodomite population.
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