As if we didn’t have enough to deal with because of the pandemic. Syphilis is on the rise and it is killing babies. [npr.org]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The fact that we can't eradicate venereal diseases shows we aren't really an intelligent species. Safe sex isn't rocket science.
Druvius
Level 8
Nov 7, 2021
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Remember, sex is an emotional drive. Safe and emotional are often at odds with one another. I still remember when AIDS broke out. Many, mostly men, who were tested HIV positive felt it was their body and they didn't have to alert any of their sexual partners of their condition. Sound familiar.
This just in from Planned Parenthood. Syphilis and gonorrhea are on the rise....especially among SENIORS! And among young people...they're getting it in their throats! It's true, friends.
LucyLoohoo
Level 9
Nov 7, 2021
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Of course and since there are many more seniors and many are now single this should not come as a surprise. Still, one would think we, in our advanced 'wisdom' would know better. Guess not.
@JackPedigo Planned Parenthood often has tables at public health events, etc, and I like to focus on ''older'' folks, giving out condoms, etc. It's amazing how many people will say "I don't need those..." and I'm always happy to educate them. Meanwhile, young women are under the impression that oral sex is a GREAT alternative...no condom needed. I educate them, too. Interesting to watch their eyes widen.
@LucyLoohoo I’m sure you have pictures to push your point. Does planned parenthood offer STD tests?
@JackPedigo Of course we do! People forget that only 93% of what we do is abortion-related! We help with transgender hormones, mammograms, general health exams, counseling...etc. For some poor patients...we ARE health care.
@LucyLoohoo I donate to PP annually and my late partner, Parvin, left PP in her will along with DVSAS (now SAFE San Juan's) an abuse awareness program here in our county. DVSAS was the only board and, along with a friend, they held a progressive potluck and earned enough money to hire a part time worker for Lopez (she is now full time). I have a similar (but different group) to PP called Engender health which is in my will. Still, thanks for the info as I don't know of the details of the different family planning groups. I do know PP sometimes works with Engenderhealth on some programs but Engenderhealth is mostly about education and surgical contraception.
@JackPedigo There are so many needs! NARAL works for legislation...PP is ''on the ground,'' so to speak. Thanks for your support, Jack!
@LucyLoohoo I forgot to mention I also donate to a group National Abortion Network [abortionfunds.org] I even got a T-shirt that says "Someone you love has had an abortion." Parvin had two.
@JackPedigo Many of us who were ''pre-Roe" had that horrible experience. I had to go to Mexico City (on borrowed money) and put myself into the hands of people I didn't know. I was lucky. I got it done.
@LucyLoohoo and unfortunately this is the reality of many places. I have been rewatching the series Call in the Midwives. So much in the series goes against all we believe but it’s excellently done and covers soo many issues including a lot about abortion. It shows the situation many women find themselves in and what happens when untrained people’ help’. It really shows the hypocrisy and cruelty of this issue.
@JackPedigo I LOVE "Call the Midwife." Notice the latest is making a point about abortion?
@LucyLoohoo Abortion has been an ongoing issue in the series. The latest ones pit the two sides where one can see either one. Lately, I have also started watching Grantchester (a real town). The priest meets the real world and slowly becomes conflicted with his religion. He leaves and is replaced by another who goes through the same mixed feelings.
@JackPedigo That one was a little bit slow for me. I'd rather watch "Downton"...
@LucyLoohoo So you have seen the series? I find murder and slowness are a good balance. I also like to see how clergy have to face the real facts of their own belief.
@JackPedigo No...I stopped watching Grantchester after a few episodes.
Spend a billion dollars on drones & cruise missiles to murder foreign nationals in their own countries but won't spend it on American health.
One fucked up country.
America has invaded 70 countries since its 4th of July Independence Day in 1776. American imperialism has made a major contribution to the 1.3 billion global avoidable deaths in the period 1950-2005. The Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenters can be seen as the New Nazis. The World, including ordinary Americans (1 million of whom die preventably each year) [10], must shake off the shackles of endless American One Percenter warmongering, imperialism and mendacity. The World must make the Fourth of July Independence from America Day. Tell everyone you can.
(1) American Indian nations (1776 onwards, American Indian Genocide; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1844, Indians banned from east of the Mississippi; 1861 onwards, California genocide; 1890, Lakota Indians massacre), (2) Mexico (1836-1846; 1913; 1914-1918; 1923), (3) Nicaragua (1856-1857; 1894; 1896; 1898; 1899; 1907; 1910; 1912-1933; 1981-1990), (4) American forces deployed against Americans (1861-1865, Civil War; 1892; 1894; 1898; 1899-1901; 1901; 1914; 1915; 1920-1921; 1932; 1943; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1973; 1992; 2001), (5), Argentina (1890), (6), Chile (1891; 1973), (7) Haiti (1891; 1914-1934; 1994; 2004-2005), (8) Hawaii (1893-), (9) China (1895-1895; 1898-1900; 1911-1941; 1922-1927; 1927-1934; 1948-1949; 1951-1953; 1958), (10) Korea (1894-1896; 1904-1905; 1951-1953), (11) Panama (1895; 1901-1914; 1908; 1912; 1918-1920; 1925; 1958; 1964; 1989-), (12) Philippines (1898-1910; 1948-1954; 1989; 2002-), (13) Cuba (1898-1902; 1906-1909; 1912; 1917-1933; 1961; 1962), (14) Puerto Rico (1898-; 1950; ); (15) Guam (189
, (16) Samoa (1899-), (17) Honduras (1903; 1907; 1911; 1912; 1919; 1924-1925; 1983-1989), (18) Dominican Republic (1903-1904; 1914; 1916-1924; 1965-1966), (19) Germany (1917-1918; 1941-1945; 1948; 1961), (20) Russia (1918-1922), (21) Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999), (22) Guatemala (1920; 1954; 1966-1967), (23) Turkey (1922), (24) El Salvador (1932; 1981-1992), (25) Italy (1941-1945); (26) Morocco (1941-1945), (27) France (1941-1945), (28) Algeria (1941-1945), (29) Tunisia (1941-1945), (30) Libya (1941-1945; 1981; 1986; 1989; 2011), (31) Egypt (1941-1945; 1956; 1967; 1973; 2013), (32) India (1941-1945), (33) Burma (1941-1945), (34) Micronesia (1941-1945), (35) Papua New Guinea (1941-1945), (36) Vanuatu (1941-1945), (37) Austria (1941-1945), (38) Hungary (1941-1945), (39) Japan (1941-1945), (40) Iran (1946; 1953; 1980; 1984; 1987-1988; ), (41) Uruguay (1947), (42) Greece (1947-1949), (43) Vietnam (1954; 1960-1975), (44) Lebanon (1958; 1982-1984), (45) Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011), (46) Laos (1962-), (47) Indonesia (1965), (48) Cambodia (1969-1975; 1975), (49) Oman (1970), (50) Laos (1971-1973), (51) Angola (1976-1992), (52) Grenada (1983-1984), (53) Bolivia (1986; ), (54) Virgin Islands (1989), (55) Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003), (56) Saudi Arabia (1990-1991), (57) Kuwait (1991), (58) Somalia (1992-1994; 2006), (59) Bosnia (1993-), (60) Zaire (Congo) (1996-1997), (61) Albania (1997), (62) Sudan (1998), (63) Afghanistan (1998; 2001-), (64) Yemen (2000; 2002-), (65) Macedonia (2001), (66) Colombia (2002-), (67) Pakistan (2005-), (68) Syria (2008; 2011-), (69) Uganda (2011), (70) Mali (2013), (71) Niger (2013).
The human cost of these US interventions has been horrendous. A major component of war- or hegemony-related deaths is represented by avoidable deaths from violently-imposed deprivation. Since 1950 the UN has provided detailed demographic data that have permitted calculation of such avoidable deaths, year by year, for every country in the world. 1950-2005 avoidable deaths total 1.3 billion for the whole world, 1.2 billion for the non-European world and 0.6 billion for the Muslim world [2], the latter carnage being 100 times greater than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed,
[countercurrents.org]
FrayedBear
Level 9
Nov 7, 2021
2
Blah, blah, blah and nothing to do with the posting.
@JackPedigo it has everything to do with the post as it identifies that your priorities are money for military spending & death or maiming foreigners who are not invading America but not spend $ the nation's health & well being - fucked up country.
@FrayedBear somebody is really reading something that’s absolutely not there. Maybe it’s a way of scoring points.
@JackPedigo or maybe it's getting you to understand what others think of you.
@FrayedBear By others you mean you. Remember, we all don't always agree but at least some of us do agree to disagree.
@JackPedigo When someone mentions the name of Ghengis Kahn what first springs to your mind?
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