do you think they were...
std free??
shareProbably. The doc's plastic surgery machine could instantly heal wounds, so the idea of total immunization to STDs seems likely.
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I think so, but not because of anything related to the plastic surgery machine. It is a sealed, indoor society. Were there any animals, insects in there? If not, there's a chance that the bacterial and viruses that cause STD's simply would not be present. Take HIV/AIDS. Scientists posit Patient Zero was a traveler in Africa who was bitten by a tse tse fly infected with HIV/AIDS in, I believe 1976. I think this gentleman was a homosexual, and when he returned to the United States, HIV/AIDS spread first to the homosexual community through the male partners with whom he had intimate relations. Through bisexuality the disease spread to the heterosexual community. (That and intravenous drug use (dirty needles), blood transfusions, and, of course, a mother passing it onto her unborn child during pregnancy.) In the world of Logan's Run, how would anyone get bitten by a tse tse fly or infected by some other form of microbe. I also wonder if the citizens of Logan's Run were afflicted by everyday illnesses like colds and flus for the same reason.
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Scientists posit Patient Zero was a traveler in Africa who was bitten by a tse tse fly infected with HIV/AIDS in, I believe 1976.
If insect bites are a vector for HIV/AIDS transmission, why isn't the entire world population infected by now? I have always heard that insect bites do not transmit HIV/AIDS.
Think about it. Your neighbor is some poor gay guy living with AIDS. A mosquito bites him, then flies into your yard and bites you. POW! Now you've got AIDS. If news like this was true, it would lead to a global panic.
The CDC says HIV/AIDS is not transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks or other insects. I assume tse tse flies would fall under "other insects".
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He was traveling in a remote part of Africa in the mid-70's. (I think 1976.) He came in contact with an insect perhaps no other human had ever encountered. This is what I have always heard to be the source of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I have never heard - until now - that this was some hoax or conspiracy theory. The tse tse fly in question was not some household bug common to Europe, North America, etc. It was rare. Indeed, it probably never made it out of Africa. But it transmitted a disease (that may or may not have affected it), HIV/AIDS, to a human when it inserted its proboscis into patient zero's skin. This was the first 'dirty needle,' of the AIDS crisis.
shareAIDS jumped from Chimpanzee's to humans likely from a tribe of people that ate the Chimps. During food preparation it's easy to imagine blood from the chimp getting into a cut from the butcher.
shareThank you. That person is completely ignorant on HIV and how it's acquired. It's not transmitted by bug bites.
shareLuckily for you, you can't get it from onanism as well.
share"Onan" is Hebrew for "Vigor".🤣
https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Onan.html
Apparently, it also translates to "trouble" or "sorrow."
Onanism, as detailed in the hyperlinked article you provided, refers to the withdrawal method of birth control or 'spilling the seed onto the floor at the moment supreme.' Onanism has also been broadened (perhaps through a lack of specific understanding of the biblical story from which it derives) to masturbation.
Well, my form of birth control is anal intercourse. Yeah, Onan's sin was not getting women pregnant, not masturbation per se.
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