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Re:Is the End of Aids in Sight? by TZubiri on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @05:01PM (#37576563)
Regarding concert going, I've certainly met people so risk averse that they don't join a concert mass outdoors, and a lot more that don't do so indoors. This is especially more common before important events like a trip.

That said, the respiratory route is very distinct from the oral, genital and anal route.

On a spectrum of frequency of contact, respiratory is the most frequent, then comes oral/digestive, then genital, and finally anal.

The more frequent and vital a route is, the more natural and artificial resources we can allocate to combat infections.

So infections spread by talking to each other, being vital, gets a vaccine developed in less than a year, and gets diverse natural antibodies.

On the other hand, a disease that spreads among adults who seek pleasure, will be allocated less resources, more so if it spreads preferentially through non reproductive sex.

Aids on the respiratory system would be fucking deadly, but my guess is that it would never spread there because there's more protection mechanisms, respiratory is like a process running unprivileged on an open port 80. Genital is port 22 and anal-genital is rdp or teamviewer with admin privileges on a server.

Re:Is the End of Aids in Sight? by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @05:44PM (#37577242)
> but my guess is that it would never spread there because there's more protection mechanisms, respiratory is like a process running unprivileged on an open port 80. Genital is port 22 and anal-genital is rdp or teamviewer with admin privileges on a server.

Dude, considering we're not even done yet with a worldwide pandemic caused by a deadly respiratory virus, I'd probably stop with the bad analogies.

Re:Is the End of Aids in Sight? by elzbardico on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @07:36PM (#37578564)
Covid is not remarkably deadly. How long will people insist it is? Don’t they teach history in the US?
Re:Is the End of Aids in Sight? by sundaeofshock on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:44AM (#37584022)
In 2022, Covid was the fourth leading cause of death in the US.

1.https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7218a3.htm

Re:Is the End of Aids in Sight? by TZubiri on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @01:54PM (#37587402)
Lethal respiratory diseases do exist, but they spread too fast to be as impactful. That's another factor to consider.