Gonorrhea turning into drug resistant superbug

[renard_ruse]

Scientists: Gonorrhea Close To Becoming Super Bug

Scientists believe overuse or incorrect use of antibiotics, coupled with the gonorrhea bacteria's astonishing ability to adapt, means the disease is now close to becoming a super bug. Once considered a scourge of sailors and soldiers, gonorrhea is now responsible for some 106 million infections annually...

A sexually transmitted disease that infects millions of people each year is growing resistant to drugs and could soon become untreatable, the World Health Organization said Wednesday...

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/...nt-to-Drugs/story.xhtml?story_id=012000OFDB7O

 

[renard_ruse]

How many mucho gazillions of bucks will global taxpayers have to shell out to "solve" this crisis that only exists because of irresponsible personal behavior in the first place?

 

[Bert Notorius]

For being the smartest species on the planet, humans are not very adaptable.

 

[about_average]

Scientists: Gonorrhea Close To Becoming Super Bug

It can't be, evolution doesn't exist.

How many mucho gazillions of bucks will global taxpayers have to shell out to "solve" this crisis that only exists because of irresponsible personal behavior in the first place?

The problem is that I can't stop you from asking the Dr for antibiotics when you have a cold and I can't force you to take them all when you have them for something that isn't a virus.

 

[renard_ruse]

It can't be, evolution doesn't exist.
The problem is that I can't stop you from asking the Dr for antibiotics when you have a cold and I can't force you to take them all when you have them for something that isn't a virus.

The irresponsible personal behavior is getting gonorrhea in the first place.

I was afraid someone would try to seize on the antibiotics issue to divert from the real problem which is irresponsible sexual behavior.

 

[TallMan69]

It can't be, evolution doesn't exist.
The problem is that I can't stop you from asking the Dr for antibiotics when you have a cold and I can't force you to take them all when you have them for something that isn't a virus.

Exactly. This is much larger than just an STD issue. There are many bacterial infections that are on the verge of becoming resistant superbugs because of improper antibiotic use. Antibiotic stewardship is so very important. We've got docs being wined and dined by the pharmaceutical industry and thinking they have to go right to the big gun antibiotics when something else that's been out 20 years might work fine.

 

[renard_ruse]

Exactly. This is much larger than just an STD issue...

Yes, its the whole failed post-60s sexual revolution that is the problem, along with if the philosophy of if it feels good do it baby and oh don't worry the government will take of any potential consequences that might result from your lifestyle choices.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Scientists: Gonorrhea Close To Becoming Super Bug

I've always thought that Royie has gonorrhea of the mouth

 

[about_average]

The irresponsible personal behavior is getting gonorrhea in the first place.

I was afraid someone would try to seize on the antibiotics issue to divert from the real problem which is irresponsible sexual behavior.

So you've never given a woman a passionate kiss not long after you started dating her? I'm impressed.

 

[TallMan69]

There's increased risks for a lot of activities. People should get tests regularly if they put themselves at risk with risky activities. For now 1 gram of azithromycin will do it. Looks like we've got a decade before what's happening in Japan and Europe catches up with us in the US. Hopefully by then the CDC will have a game plan on what we'll do then.

 

[TexasWife25]

So you've never given a woman a passionate kiss not long after you started dating her? I'm impressed.

He doesn't date, he's more of the heavy breather hang up type.

 

[Redatlit]

For being the smartest species on the planet, humans are not very adaptable.

We live a little longer than the average virus or insect.

 

[pierrelarue161]

For a man on a porn site, renard ruse sounds shockingly like a Catholic priest.

So, tell us, Father Renard, what is the solution? Abstinence? Monogamy? Anti-sodomy laws? What is your social prescription for these ills, Doc?

Face, we've overdone penicillin on many things and not just STDs. We need to look elsewhere for medical treatment.

But allow me to make a modest proposal. It's a radical one, actually. Let those inclined toward a more sexually repressed code of law form micro-nations outside the jurisdiction of U.S. law and the Constitution. Clearly, they are tired of the Constitution's restraints that "fail" to protect them from themselves, so we sell certain lands to groups like, say the Christian Coalition or Moral Majority. These must forfeit their U.S. citizenship, their Constitutional rights, their entitlements, U.S. military protection, and all of the other benefits of being part of the Union.

Mr. Ruse can head one of these enclaves, if he so pleases, as can vetteman and Ishmael. Maybe even Busybody. Hell, given her quasi-fascist leanings, KRC might be a good candidate to rule one of these mini-states. They probably won't be true democratic republics....the slide toward fascist rule is imminent, but the rest of the country will be rid of their puritanical and spiteful influence. The elections should take a whole new turn. Our only real competition will be the Libertarian Right and the Moderate Right. They are likely to be a divided enemy for a while, but a gift of say, Alaska, would fix the former for sure.

A somewhat leaner, meaner USA would be much more united in its mainstream and consensus...a bit more center-left.

It's just a thought. Maybe we're just too big to stay all together and some should go their separate ways. A free-trade agreement could help avoid trade wars. About 86% of the present USA would remain intact, but with the remaining 14% as independent allies. I think that we could get along a lot better with the Jim DeMints, Sarah Palins, Michelle Bachmanns, and Christine O'Donnells if they are simply wacky foreigners whose policies do not impact our daily lives.

The rest of us can to get business with reforming the tax code, eliminating tax shelters and loopholes, balancing the budget, protecting the environment in balanced ways that don't unduly harass states, reservations, and business. We could reform Medicare and Social Security to preserve, not end them. We could establish single-payer health insurance for all Americans. Those uninterested in "socialized medicine" can move to the Free States/Christian Territories.

A simple treaty could fix this for non-aggression pacts, trade agreements, diplomatic relations, etc. These are not likely to join the UN, but that shouldn't be an issue. It could be a solid case for lowering our dues, since we would be a smaller and theoretically poor country in the short run. In the long-term, we'd be better off. And those anti-UN candidates would be thrilled not to have to pay any dues at all.

So, how about it, Your Eminence, Cardinal Ruse? Splinter off religious zealots and ultra-libertarians with their own consent into separate nations with their own constitutions and laws....sound good? Let the rest of us, the center-left, alone. You often talk of secession. I'd like to call your bluff.

 

[renard_ruse]

For a man on a porn site, renard ruse sounds shockingly like a Catholic priest.

So, tell us, Father Renard, what is the solution? Abstinence? Monogamy? Anti-sodomy laws? What is your social prescription for these ills, Doc?

Its my understanding its an erotic site not a "porn" site. Some of the most erotic things in life don't involve rushing into promiscious sex.

But to your point, the ideal would be monogamy, second best would be just doing hand jobs and other "safe" activities, and if you can't live up to those common sense ideals, then be responsible enough to use condoms religiously. Is that really even a controversial statement?

 

[pierrelarue161]

Its my understanding its an erotic site not a "porn" site. Some of the most erotic things in life don't involve rushing into promiscious sex.

But to your point, the ideal would be monogamy, second best would be just doing hand jobs and other "safe" activities, and if you can't live up to those common sense ideals, then be responsible enough to use condoms religiously. Is that really even a controversial statement?

Well, it would be more mainstream in your own micro-state, I think. People who share your values on matters of sexuality. Those of us to whom Eros gives different callings might well live elsewhere. There can be various shades of it. The USA is a gangrened patient, and the only solution to the gangrene is to sever the limbs (states/territories).

 

[renard_ruse]

The mantra of the post modern world of the past 40 years:

"I wanna do what I wanna do, however I wanna do it, with whoever I wanna do it, whenever I wanna, and da govment better make sure nothin bad happens to me..."

 

[KRCummings]

We live a little longer than the average virus or insect.

And yet both routinely kill us.

 

[pierrelarue161]

Is this opening line of your acceptance speech for the nomination for President of the Christian Federation? No doubt you'll hear applause to that line from the Moral Majority and Catholic Church.

Congratulations, we have our first candidate.

 

[TallMan69]

Its my understanding its an erotic site not a "porn" site. Some of the most erotic things in life don't involve rushing into promiscious sex.

But to your point, the ideal would be monogamy, second best would be just doing hand jobs and other "safe" activities, and if you can't live up to those common sense ideals, then be responsible enough to use condoms religiously. Is that really even a controversial statement?

Ok, responsible non-monogamy. I think that's sensible commonground. I think that's something even the right's hero, Newt Gingrich, champion of Open Marriage, could live with as well.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Too timid....Pierre. But a nice start.

1. Release the Confederacy and allow it the right to reconstitute itself.
2. Let the native tribes vote on independence, statehood, or the status quo. Each tribe should be master of its own destiny.
3. Let the people of the states vote on continued membership in the Union. Every State, Puerto Rico, and DC. Those who vote for secession become citizens of the new nation. Those who vote against it have ninety days to leave or be automatically be deemed citizens by their consent.

Those who depart for the United States may retain their U.S. citizenship by renouncing that of the new republic. In states that opt to remain in the Union, those who vote for preservation of the Union automatically retain their citizenship, while those who didn't have ninety days to leave for non-Federal territory or else be deemed to have given tacit consent to enroll them as citizens.

If any citizens of the "Union" states wish to seek citizenship in a new Free State, they need only renounce their U.S. citizenship and emigrate to said nation.

Treaties can be reached to discuss the particulars, such as nuclear weapons (preferably with an eye toward their eventual elimination).

As many as thirty to seventy new nations could emerge from the rubble of the American Empire. Eventually, the Union will simply dissolve. From the ashes, nations of various political ideals, right, left, and center, will be seen.

 

[KRCummings]

Too timid....Pierre. But a nice start.

1. Release the Confederacy and allow it the right to reconstitute itself.
2. Let the native tribes vote on independence, statehood, or the status quo. Each tribe should be master of its own destiny.
3. Let the people of the states vote on continued membership in the Union. Every State, Puerto Rico, and DC. Those who vote for secession become citizens of the new nation. Those who vote against it have ninety days to leave or be automatically be deemed citizens by their consent.

Those who depart for the United States may retain their U.S. citizenship by renouncing that of the new republic. In states that opt to remain in the Union, those who vote for preservation of the Union automatically retain their citizenship, while those who didn't have ninety days to leave for non-Federal territory or else be deemed to have given tacit consent to enroll them as citizens.

If any citizens of the "Union" states wish to seek citizenship in a new Free State, they need only renounce their U.S. citizenship and emigrate to said nation.

Treaties can be reached to discuss the particulars, such as nuclear weapons (preferably with an eye toward their eventual elimination).

As many as thirty to seventy new nations could emerge from the rubble of the American Empire. Eventually, the Union will simply dissolve. From the ashes, nations of various political ideals, right, left, and center, will be seen.

Fuckin' dumbass.

 

[Bert Notorius]

And yet both routinely kill us.

I know where she is going with that and she's spot on...or she may not have a fucking clue.

What do I know?

 

[pierrelarue161]

Too timid....Pierre. But a nice start.

1. Release the Confederacy and allow it the right to reconstitute itself.
2. Let the native tribes vote on independence, statehood, or the status quo. Each tribe should be master of its own destiny.
3. Let the people of the states vote on continued membership in the Union. Every State, Puerto Rico, and DC. Those who vote for secession become citizens of the new nation. Those who vote against it have ninety days to leave or be automatically be deemed citizens by their consent.

Those who depart for the United States may retain their U.S. citizenship by renouncing that of the new republic. In states that opt to remain in the Union, those who vote for preservation of the Union automatically retain their citizenship, while those who didn't have ninety days to leave for non-Federal territory or else be deemed to have given tacit consent to enroll them as citizens.

If any citizens of the "Union" states wish to seek citizenship in a new Free State, they need only renounce their U.S. citizenship and emigrate to said nation.

Treaties can be reached to discuss the particulars, such as nuclear weapons (preferably with an eye toward their eventual elimination).

As many as thirty to seventy new nations could emerge from the rubble of the American Empire. Eventually, the Union will simply dissolve. From the ashes, nations of various political ideals, right, left, and center, will be seen.

While it's a bit more extreme than what I had in mind, I don't concur with KRC, since it's only degrees of difference from my idea. We are drifting apart as a nation, becoming multiple nations in one, with less and less in common each day. One way or the other, Right may have to separate from Left and vice versa. I think it's a little early for your solution per se, but then I'm not an anarchist like you, Sev.

The difference between KRC and me is that I simply disagree. I still keep a civilized tongue while I do so. She doesn't do her alma mater much credit with her debating style, that much is clear. I gather that she wasn't picked for the debate team.

I still think that the bulk of the country can hold together, but only by letting the malcontents go.

 

[pierrelarue161]

I know where she is going with that and she's spot on...or she may not have a fucking clue.

What do I know?

From what I've read of her posts, she doesn't have the manners God gave a goat, let alone any clue.