I'm not sure why you're so defensive about this subject, but it indicates to me that there's clearly an issue at play here that you're not dealing with.
Not defensive about it at all. Simply noted that there are conflicting views based on conflicting data and that neither set of data is necessarily correct. Beyond that, there is no issue at play that I am aware of.
Since you seem to lack the temerity to otherwise be mature and adult about this conversation (or maybe anything to do with me; I also get the inclination that you're simply threatened by me), chances are I'll ignore all future posts from you. I have no interest in attempting to change your opinion. I simply don't care.
Don't confuse my lack of enthusiasm for pointless argument as lack of temerity, especially when the only true mature and adult position is recognition that neither source of information being presented is flawless.
If you feel that anyone who disagrees with you must feel threatened by you, that's your issue to own. I don't know you and have no feelings about you and absolutely nothing about what little I know of you makes me feel threatened in any way.
Ignore or not, that is your prerogative.
Anywho, it's clear to me that you older folks are woefully behind the times wrt HIV and modern medicine. I don't care if you get mad and defensive about it; like I said, I don't care about changing your opinions or actions. But I will correct misinformed posts and messages.
Then again, there may be a reason that there are older folk like us still around. Especially those of us who went through those years watching friends wither and die and who are fortunate enough to have a few friends left that are still fighting to stay alive even though we know they won't be with us much longer and that their lives have drastically changed since they "acquired" HIV.
I don't get mad and defensive very often anymore, because that is usually just as big a waste of time as it would be for you to try to change my opinions regarding STD/STI.
However, I do get sad when I hear people like you trying to use someone's opinions to convince people that one of the worst plagues known to modern man is now little more than the common cold.
For you, maybe it is, UNTIL you get it.
Oh, and the issue of HIV isn't the ONLY consideration when it comes to STD/STI. Herpes, gonorrhea and some of the other bugs are even more prevalent and can be quite debilitating as well, especially as some have no cure, no magic cocktail to control them.
Feel free to comment on what you wish to believe is misinformation just as those of us who choose to, will comment on why your information is just as unreliable.
There is a reason they only claim to be "practicing" medicine.
