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Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths by not2b on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:16PM (#27272260)
When life expectancy was 30 years, it was because many children didn't live past the first year; still, 70 year olds were common in hunter-gatherer societies.
Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths by contriban on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:10AM (#27272512)
Common doesn’t mean that most people made it. In a world where you can die for a cut, a hunter doesn’t last to be 70 very easily. This is one of those counter-myths that I’ve been seeing too often lately.

The comment about dying early made sense: Just because we lived with unprotected sex for the last million years (and we changed genetically due to some viruses that we got along the way) it doesn’t mean that we’re now still willing to bear the consequences.

I’m willing to bet that nowadays we have far more sexual partners than we’ve had since we started “society”

Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths by rejectedandsad on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @12:41AM (#27272661)
Seriously? The only person I know my age that’s getting laid is...married to his wife. Where is this moral panic coming from? If anything the new moral panic is young people aren’t having sex at all.
Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths by JohnWhigham on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:05AM (#27275819)
This is one of those counter-myths that I’ve been seeing too often lately.

As opposed to people being ignorant about statistics and constantly parroting crap like "people only lived to 30 before modern medicine"?

Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths by mensetmanusman on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @07:41AM (#27275623)
To your last point, it’s possibly not true if you track what is happening in Japan and now starting in the west.

Many people can go their entire lives having the internet as their sole partner.

Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths by contriban on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:20AM (#27276435)
I don’t think they’re a huge amount of people, at least currently. It looks like about 30% of Americans between 25 and 50 have never been married. That means at least 70% of that group has been married, more will marry in their lifetimes, and likely a large amount of people fornicate out of wedlock.

That indicates that the vast majority of people has at least one sexual partner, with many having a lot more thanks to sexual liberation.

For the record, I’m not saying that this is a bad thing at all. I was just alluding to the fact that we can’t compare life and expectations of safety to what it was even 100 years ago, let alone over “millions of years”