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Even if this gets bad quickly, it's going to be a long time before you should be more afraid of this than, say, driving a car. Wear a condom and be responsible and don't let small risks like this terrify you.
Also, I hate to sound remotely anti-sex, but it's usually not hard to figure out if someone sleeps around easily, and if they do they're statistically a much higher-risk partner.
Edit: I have to say this too -- this "worse than AIDS" stuff is bullshit. A drug resistant strain of gonorrhea may be a world health risk, but it's still gonorrhea. Gonorrhea is just not HIV/AIDS. I have no idea what dumb alarmist doctor/health agency/whatever started this media story, but even in the short-run, that evaluation is pretty much scaremongering.
thanks Native, that was my instinct too. Aspects of this sounded sketchy, alarmist and suspicious to me. I appreciate your response and that's why I wanted to post here to get some context.
I want to take it seriously, but the tone of this seems off.
Two weeks ago, I think 3 men (gay) died of meningitis in West Hollywood and despite the doomsday tone the story was getting in the press, the CDC was still reluctant to call it an "outbreak"... that story totally vanished in a week.
It's tricky finding the proper context to a lot of what's out there; trying to discern what's true and what's trying to just get you to click on an ad.