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Re:The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to... by Fjolsvith on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:53AM (#23881386)
> I'd be interested to look at HIV and testing in the 80/90s

The thing I just can't understand is why they didn't require everyone back then to wear condoms all the time, regardless of whether they were HIV-positive. Those people were so callous in their regard for human safety!

Re:The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to... by somewhereoutth on Saturday July 18, 2020 @10:57PM (#23886657)
The distinction is consent. You would need to get meaningful consent from everyone present when you walked into a store without a mask.

EDIT: Actually not quite. To elaborate a little further - it has become understood that it is just and reasonable for the state to have jurisdiction over interpersonal interactions that involve money (though the converse is not necessarily implied) - this is 'the market'. Thus going to the store operates under a different regime than going to a friend's birthday party in their own home. Your example would equate to the state mandating condom usage with prostitution, assuming that was legal in the first place.

What you get up to at the store can be regulated by the state - what you get up to in the bedroom (without financial exchange) should not - assuming meaningful consent

Re:The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to... by klyrs on Saturday July 18, 2020 @11:57AM (#23882240)
The same political division occurred back then. The right fights for abstainance-only sex ed; the left fights for harm-reduction such as prophylactics and teaching to the science.

But to address the absolutism in your question. If everybody in possession of a penis wore a condom at all times (a) they'd get nasty and possibly gangrenous, [so i'll assume you mean "when the penis is deployed in/on/around a second party"] and (b) it would reduce the birth rate by about 90%.

Re:The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to... by Fjolsvith on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:29PM (#23884570)
> If everybody in possession of a penis wore a condom at all times

That would be about as likely as everyone wearing a mask at all times.

Re:The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to... by klyrs on Saturday July 18, 2020 @07:38PM (#23885741)
This is a thing you wrote. I agree, very unlikely

> The thing I just can't understand is why they didn't require everyone back then to wear condoms all the time

Re:The explosion of new coronavirus tests that could help to... by Fjolsvith on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:47PM (#23920253)
Fauci saying that masks are not effective protection from coronavirus:

https://streamable.com/oml2rf

Its not just me.