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viking8x6

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  1. HPV provides long term protection (probably for life). From the CDC web site: Because the Mpox vaccines were originally intended for protection against smallpox and were later found also to be effective against Mpox (and were used for it), there are not enough long term data on those vaccines to know whether the protection is long term. However, similar vaccines against smallpox, which were used when it was still around as an endemic disease, did provide long term protection against that disease.
  2. OMG how on Earth did I overlook this for over 10 years?!? Or maybe I just forgot about it...
  3. @BootmanLA @WillingRawVerse that's enough.
  4. From what you can tell? You provide no information about that, and it certainly didn't happen to your posts. If you're going to throw around accusations, don't be vague. That's tantamount to libel. If you're merely basing that on what someone else said, quote them rather than asserting that you can tell, which implies that you've got observations of your own. As for Moderators reacting differently than the membership at large, sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. No different from the reactions of various member differing, which they also do. And Moderators have a perspective that gives us additional parameters for evaluating posts. Just as an example, the single downvote I could find for any of your posts was from me. I didn't do it because of the content, I did it because that content was totally inappropriate in the Health forum. A lot of regular members don't necessarily notice which forum something is in, but Moderators do, because it's part of our job.
  5. In reverse order: If they are testing urine samples, they are testing for STDs other than HIV (in the US, gonorrhea and chlamydia are routinely tested by urine samples). Ignoring the fact that they are (apparently) testing for STD's, their explanation for why they are not makes no sense at all, unless we assume that the person with the STD is continuing (during and after the treatment) to have sex with the same person who gave them the STD (who still has it). Then it does make sense, because the person undergoing treatment would be continually exposed to the bacteria that cause the STD while the antibiotic was present in concentrations too low to kill it completely. But. They didn't ask you whether that was likely to be the case. And it completely overlooks the fact that the person who got tested and has the STD, if it isn't treated, could then be spreading it to others! Incompetent.
  6. I would want to see this because why?
  7. That's the recommendation from the CDC. In actual practice, things are nowhere near that regimented. At least not in my geopolitical area.
  8. another version of this story was posted here:
  9. It's not so much the commotion, as that we (the moderators) can't read it (or not most of it) without copying and pasting into a translator. It's quite enough to try and keep up with just reading most of what's posted on the site, without that extra work!
  10. IMO if the former wins out, most of us will see 2030... to our sorrow.
  11. How about this guy from RFC?
  12. Here's the bit you were thinking of, I believe.
  13. Breeding Zone is a public discussion forum. Of course the things you post on it are public.
  14. The post is pinned near the top of the forum. Here's a link:
  15. Anyone have a lead on where this shot is from? A few snippets of this vid showed up in a montage, and I think I'd like it...
  16. If it still has the dessicant pack inside and hasn't been exposed to extreme temperatures, they should be OK to use. You might want to consider switching to Emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide if it's available where you are (easier on the kidneys). Or there's the bimonthly injection (cabotegravir).
  17. @hntnhole - I don't think your most recent response was helpful in making this topic one that will elicit whatever thoughts the "anti-woke" crowd actually does have about the question. While I'm sure some people who use "woke" as a criticism and a denigration are the sort you describe, the purpose of this topic is to presume that right-leaning people on BZ are not of that ilk, and to ask them to help us understand where they are coming from.
  18. Trust me, if I didn't have a sense of humor I'd have run screaming for the hills about 20 minutes after I started being a moderator. Presumably said right wing people have something in mind as to what it means. Given that it obviously isn't what the various left-wing and historically educated responses in this topic have outlined, I'm still waiting to hear what it might be. Crickets on that so far. And just to further clarify my question, I'm NOT interested in what the right-wing media machine means by it. I'm interested in how actual right-wing people (who participate in this forum) understand it.
  19. As far as I know, fictional stories about rape or non-consensual sex are allowed, within limits. They can be posted in whichever of the fiction sections is most appropriate. Note that the rules about HIV fetish, enhancements, and straight/bi/trans-fem sex all apply as usual. The most cogent rules are in the new "harm to the community" policy that @rawTOP put in about 3 years ago. The topic about that policy is linked below. The link points to a flowchart for deciding whether your particular topic is allowed under the policy. The part of the flowchart relevant to your question is section 4.
  20. It looks that way from where you stand. Presumably it does not look that way from a MAGA supporter's living room. Which is exactly the point of this topic.
  21. Hey guys, I'm hearing a lot from people who are pro-"woke". That's not so much what I'm interested in with this topic. Why? Because what I want to know is what's objectionable about "woke" (to the people who consider it so). That's something that cannot be heard inside the liberal "echo chamber". So y'all conservative guys, I ask you again - what does "woke" mean to you, and why is it something you reject?
  22. A number of comments have been made in other topics that object to "wokeism" and things "woke". As someone who more often than not votes liberal, but sometimes only because I object to the policies put forth by the conservatives, I'm curious as to what exactly it is you (the ones who made those comments) mean when you say "woke". I'm quite sure that you would refer to at least some of my friends that way, but I'm rather in the dark about what it is that you find so objectionable. Please illuminate me. As an aside, abuse and denigration are not the way to convince anyone who currently holds a different opinion. But you knew that.
  23. The link was broken. You can find the original here:
  24. Republican by registration, not by politics (I live in a red state). I consider myself "Liberaltarian". I certainly won't vote for the orange sociopath. Not particularly keen on Biden either. It's fairly clear that my wishes and interests won't be addressed in the Presidential election. Further down the ticket, things get more interesting... especially in the primary. Get out and vote, everyone!
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