Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn

Post by ensignavenger » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 2:08 PM UTC

JanezStupar wrote: post #190

ensignavenger wrote: post #189

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I suppose it is possible that large agribusinesses where you live do this... it is also possible that the small farmers near you have an axe to grind with their larger competition, and/or are open to accepting and spreading gossip and rumors without much basis in reality.

But you don't think it's possible that all the incentives are geared towards this kind of behavior?

That is certainly a possibility! I didn't mean to imply it wasn't. I did a some quick looking and if your in the US, the USDA guarantees livestock insurance, this likely results in a distortion of the risk and perhaps shifts the incentives towards this sort of behavior.

But I would caution against taking rumor and gossip as strong supporting evidence.

Post by milesf » Sat, Sep 10, 2016, 12:31 AM UTC

astrodust wrote: post #174

milesf wrote: post #158

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> Clearly you live on some other planet where people don't have sex before marriage I admit that I really don't belong here in this world. I'll give you that. Was I a virgin before I married? No. But when I learned about the facts of sexually transmitted diseases back in 1990, I chose to stop. After that, I got tested twice for STD's: once when I started dating a girl in 1993 who I was serious with, and knew that if…

Nobody's offended by your choice, that's your personal call, but to think that your particular decision is one other people can or should make, forcing your will on them, is pretty arrogant. "Sexually transmitted" diseases have been given to people through other means, the primary vector being blood transfusions. They're also something you can pick up from needles either by being careless or having a freak accident.…

> Nobody's offended by your choice, that's your personal call, but to think that your particular decision is one other people can or should make, forcing your will on them, is pretty arrogant.

We are talking about physical reality here. Arrogance doesn't even enter into it. We each, as individuals, make choices, and those choices have consequences.

> "Sexually transmitted" diseases have been given to people through other means, the primary vector being blood transfusions.

Primary? Are you serious? The primary means is through unprotected sex, hence the term "sexually transmitted". The blood supplies in most countries have been safe for decades.

http://www.cdc.gov/bloodsafety/bbp/diseases_organisms.html

> So your "it's easy" answer is actually advice that's misguided at best and insulting at worst.

I think your "find" function must be broken. I used the word novel, not easy.

Definition of Novel: Strikingly new, unusual, or different

Re: Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn

Re: Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn