Dec 29, 2020 08:14 PM
(This post was last modified: Dec 30, 2020 01:41 AM by C C.)
Super Gonorrhea spreading from antibiotic overuse for Covid-19 (data inferences)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/20...ronavirus/
INTRO: “Super gonorrhea” is trending on Twitter right now because, well, why not? It’s 2020, after all. And what better thing to have trend at the end of a year that brought us the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, a shortage of basically everything, constant drama in the White House, and a Presidential election that just won’t end? Consider this sexually transmitted infection to be the pie à la mode, the night cap, the final wipe of 2020.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, super gonorrhea is not super to have. It won’t prompt you to tell your partner, “I just returned from the doctor’s office, and I’ve got super news for you.” Nah, telling him or her that you have super gonorrhea would be about as positive as saying that you have sexy syphilis or candy-coated chlamydia. Super gonorrhea isn’t a comic book hero either... (MORE)
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Yes, Super Gonorrhea Is Real and It's Gonna Get Worse
https://gizmodo.com/yes-super-gonorrhea-...1845956452
INTRO: Over the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social media: super gonorrhea. That’s because the World Health Organization recently warned that the pandemic is helping fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Unfortunately, the situation is only likely to get worse. Antibiotic resistance has been a slow-brewing crisis for decades, but the effects are finally becoming hard to ignore. Currently, so-called superbugs are thought to kill around 35,000 Americans annually, as well as 700,000 people globally.
One of the more worrying superbug threats today is Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the namesake bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Gonorrhea isn’t usually deadly and often has no symptoms, but if left untreated, it can lead to complications like arthritis, joint pain, and skin rashes, as well as infertility and chronic pelvic pain. The bacteria can also be passed from a mother to her baby during delivery, triggering an infection that can be fatal or cause serious problems like blindness. Notable symptoms include a green or yellow discharge from the genitals and pain while urinating... (MORE)
Cynical Sindee: Obviously promiscuity is something a populace should not to be indulging in during a coronavirus pandemic, in the first place. Wearing a condom wouldn't prevent transmission in that degree of intimate contact; and the very rise of Super-G and other resistant STDs indicates use of such was already less popular among "sleeping-around junkies" than this year's addition of masks, anyway.
So we have plenty of preaching from the Establishment about restricting behavior in other areas that can negatively affect goods, employment, necessities, and psychological well-being. But when it comes to vociferously chastising the herd about promiscuity during a pandemic... either nada or maybe a level of admonishment equivalent to mere whispering.
That's because unbridled sexual liberty ("Damn the health risks and unwanted pregnancies!") was one of the sacred cows of counterculture back in the '60s, and as political traits of the latter ascended to become the norm, it still is.{*} Along with medical experts exempting certain other behaviors like demonstrations and rioting. Because, you know, the motivated reasoning of humanities professors -- the collectivist oriented stuff they imaginatively invent and urinate while sitting in chairs that eventually trickles to the toilet bowl of the Twitterverse -- that takes precedence over what would otherwise be science uncompromised and non-modified by contingent socio-political circumstances.
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{*} Along with public lecturing about condom use and contraception being about as effective in some sub-cultural lifestyles as Mormons sermonizing about masturbation avoidance.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/20...ronavirus/
INTRO: “Super gonorrhea” is trending on Twitter right now because, well, why not? It’s 2020, after all. And what better thing to have trend at the end of a year that brought us the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, a shortage of basically everything, constant drama in the White House, and a Presidential election that just won’t end? Consider this sexually transmitted infection to be the pie à la mode, the night cap, the final wipe of 2020.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, super gonorrhea is not super to have. It won’t prompt you to tell your partner, “I just returned from the doctor’s office, and I’ve got super news for you.” Nah, telling him or her that you have super gonorrhea would be about as positive as saying that you have sexy syphilis or candy-coated chlamydia. Super gonorrhea isn’t a comic book hero either... (MORE)
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Yes, Super Gonorrhea Is Real and It's Gonna Get Worse
https://gizmodo.com/yes-super-gonorrhea-...1845956452
INTRO: Over the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social media: super gonorrhea. That’s because the World Health Organization recently warned that the pandemic is helping fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Unfortunately, the situation is only likely to get worse. Antibiotic resistance has been a slow-brewing crisis for decades, but the effects are finally becoming hard to ignore. Currently, so-called superbugs are thought to kill around 35,000 Americans annually, as well as 700,000 people globally.
One of the more worrying superbug threats today is Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the namesake bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Gonorrhea isn’t usually deadly and often has no symptoms, but if left untreated, it can lead to complications like arthritis, joint pain, and skin rashes, as well as infertility and chronic pelvic pain. The bacteria can also be passed from a mother to her baby during delivery, triggering an infection that can be fatal or cause serious problems like blindness. Notable symptoms include a green or yellow discharge from the genitals and pain while urinating... (MORE)
Cynical Sindee: Obviously promiscuity is something a populace should not to be indulging in during a coronavirus pandemic, in the first place. Wearing a condom wouldn't prevent transmission in that degree of intimate contact; and the very rise of Super-G and other resistant STDs indicates use of such was already less popular among "sleeping-around junkies" than this year's addition of masks, anyway.
So we have plenty of preaching from the Establishment about restricting behavior in other areas that can negatively affect goods, employment, necessities, and psychological well-being. But when it comes to vociferously chastising the herd about promiscuity during a pandemic... either nada or maybe a level of admonishment equivalent to mere whispering.
That's because unbridled sexual liberty ("Damn the health risks and unwanted pregnancies!") was one of the sacred cows of counterculture back in the '60s, and as political traits of the latter ascended to become the norm, it still is.{*} Along with medical experts exempting certain other behaviors like demonstrations and rioting. Because, you know, the motivated reasoning of humanities professors -- the collectivist oriented stuff they imaginatively invent and urinate while sitting in chairs that eventually trickles to the toilet bowl of the Twitterverse -- that takes precedence over what would otherwise be science uncompromised and non-modified by contingent socio-political circumstances.
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{*} Along with public lecturing about condom use and contraception being about as effective in some sub-cultural lifestyles as Mormons sermonizing about masturbation avoidance.