Finally, I have some good news to report from the realm of biology.
For the first time in years, our nation’s public health officials are reporting there was a small decline in the number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) for 2023.
According to surveillance data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of STIs declined by 1.8% from 2022 to 2023, a sign that the dramatic rise in STI incidence since 2011 might be leveling off. CDC officials welcomed the news.”I see a glimmer of hope amidst millions of STIs,” Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH, director of CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, said in a CDC press release. “After nearly two decades of STI increases, the tide is turning.”
While infection rates have dropped, the country still has millions of infections. Unfortunately, the rates associated with newborns have increased.
More than 2.4 million cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia were diagnosed and reported last year — 1.6 million cases of chlamydia, 600,000 of gonorrhea, and more than 209,000 of syphilis.
Syphilis is a particular concern. For centuries, it was a common but feared infection that could deform the body and end in death. New cases plummeted in the U.S. starting in the 1940s when infection-fighting antibiotics became widely available, and they trended down for a half century after that. By 2002, however, cases began rising again, with men who have sex with other men being disproportionately affected.The new report found cases of syphilis in their early, most infectious stages dropped 13% among gay and bisexual men. It was the first such drop since the agency began reporting data for that group in the mid-2000s.However, there was a 12% increase in the rate of cases of unknown- or later-stage syphilis — a reflection of people infected years ago.Cases of syphilis in newborns, passed on from infected mothers, also rose. There were nearly 4,000 cases, including 279 stillbirths and infant deaths.
Hopefully, this trend will continue. I suspect it will, and we may see some staggering reductions for 2025 if woke women are successful at implementing 4B Movement.
The election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president has triggered a surge of social media posts and internet search interest in South Korea’s fringe feminist “4B” movement, which calls on women to refrain from dating, having sex with men, having kids and marrying men.Across TikTok, dozens of American women disappointed by Tuesday’s election results have posted videos stating their intention to participate in their own version of the 4B trend. There were over 500,000 search inquires for “4B movement” on Google over the span of 48 hours this week, and it became one of the top trending topics on the online search engine.The 4B trend, which began in South Korea 2018 in the wake of the #MeToo movement, has become a way for some women to protest misogyny, gender discrimination and violence against women, according to Meera Choi, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of sociology at Yale University who studies heterosexual refusal among South Korean women.
The “Blue Bracelet” movement should help identify those participating in Plan 4B as well.
It turns out many men are onboard with the 4B movement as well.
Think about the implications:
Who says leftist women aren’t contributing to Trump’s Golden Age?
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