Gonorrhea Rates Skyrocket--and 'the Experts™' Recommend Handing Out more Condoms
Tone-deaf, stupid, and blind 'advice' is offered by 'public health officialdom', which isn't exactly 'news' but it shows, once more, the decay of sanity
Another day, another ‘bafflement’: Gonorrhea rates are ‘skyrocketing’ across ‘the entire country’, state broadcaster NRK reported a fortnight ago. What is this about and why now, one asks, and here cometh the answers.
Translation, emphases, and bottom lines mine.
Gonorrhea Skyrockets All Over the Country: ‘Can Cause Chronic Pain’
By Kristin Olsen and Espen Bierud, NRK, 7 March 2024 [source]
The venereal disease that can make you sterile is spreading ever faster. Registered nurses think people don’t know how dangerous gonorrhea is.
‘Many people have been suffering for a long time when they come here’, says nurse Siw Anette Fossby.
She works at ‘Test deg’ [test yourself] at Sørlandet hospital. An offer where anyone who wishes can check themselves for sexually transmitted diseases completely free and anonymously.
At the centre, the number of cases of gonorrhea infection has increased fivefold since 2019. Those are worrying numbers.
Gonorrhea Can Render You Sterile
Nurse Stefan Avila believes the increase shows that people know too little about how serious gonorrhea infection can be.
He explains that gonorrhea is a more aggressive sexually transmitted disease than chlamydia.
You get more symptoms. In the worst case, it affects fertility and can cause chronic pain.
Avila believes the increase may have a connection with the fact that people are freer now than before [careful there, Mr. Avila]:
And then people don't use condoms. It is the only thing that protects you from sexually transmitted diseases.
A Very Sad Development
Nationally, too, the number of infections continues to rise: 2022 was a year with a sharp increase in gonorrhea infections in Norway.
But figures from Institute for Public Health (IPH) show that gonorrhea cases increased further by approximately 40% in 2023 [on a year-on-year basis; let that sink ink].
Tegnander believes young people are good at using contraception, but that many choose to ditch the condom. She also does not feel that venereal diseases and [sexually transmitted] infections are a topic that is talked about a lot.
But those around me probably use more condoms and know who they are going to have sex with.
Something that I would perhaps recommend to more people, to have a regular sex partner, she adds.
Multiple Sex Partners Increases Risk of Gonorrhea
But at the test center at Sørlandet Hospital, the trend is the opposite:
Siw Anette Fossby finds that more and more people who come and test themselves have more sex partners [since this testing is done anonymously, no-one knows about prevalence, representativeness of the ‘sample’, and the like, hence this is a personal impression, nothing else]
Frequent change of sex partners increases the risk of infection. And only half of those infected develop symptoms [no surprise there: yes, there is a comparatively small sub-segment of the population that is very sexually active, but there are also increasing numbers of ‘incels’, i.e., those who are ‘involuntarily celibate’].
‘That is why it is very important to come and test yourself’, she emphasises.
But when should you actually go to the test station?
‘You should check yourself before each change of partner. Even if you don't feel any symptoms.’ [oh, look, is it possible to ‘spread’ the venereal disease ‘asymptomatically’?]
If infection is detected, you will receive antibiotic treatment.
And the vast majority of treatments are successful, reassures the nurse.
Prevention is Still the Very Best Option
‘If you have a future desire for children: think about sexual health now’, says Fossby [I might be wrong on this one, but I’d wager that those who change sex partners as often as others change their underwear might not be the ones who ‘have a future desire for children’].
And the advice is, as previously mentioned, resoundingly clear and reasonably simple:
Condoms are gold. It is the only thing that protects.
Chlamydia Infection are Also on the Rise
After a decline during the pandemic, 29,271 cases of chlamydia were reported in Norway in 2022.
There was a clear increase compared to the pandemic year 2021, when 23,447 cases were reported.
The figures for 2022 are at the same level as in the peak year 2019.
Bottom Lines
We’ve locked down for way less in terms of ‘spread’ of ‘infections’.
What’s stunning here is that, while quite o.k.-ish done, the ‘reporting’ is totally deficient in at least one respect: if there’s a 40% y-o-y increase of anything (interest rates, stock prices, salary, etc.), it would be a HUGE THING.
Here, however, in the context of gonorrhea infections ‘skyrocketing’, no-one bothers to consider why that might be. Remember, this 40% y-o-y increase in 2023 comes after a ‘sharp increase’ in cases in 2022.
Moreover, personal integrity is nowhere to be found in this ‘reporting’. All that people are offered in terms of ‘remedy’ is: ‘get tested’ when changing sex partners and ‘use more condoms’.
Both are ‘wrong’.
The former is fostering pathological behaviour while the latter normalises promiscuous behaviour.
Given that this story was first reported in mid-January 2024 by P4, we now also know how long it takes for such an item to garner ‘national attention’: less than two months.
This is the highest number of cases in one year in many decades, according to the statistics for Infectious Diseases at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. 2,988 is over a thousand more cases than in 2022, which was also a year of enormous increase. Then 1,858 cases of gonorrhea infection were registered.
‘We find that it is young heterosexuals who are infected’, says doctor at Sex & Society, Trine Aarvold.
Lack of condom use and awareness of diseases and more changes of partner are linked to the increase.
1,104 of the infection cases concerned women. That is up 122%, or 605 more cases, than in 2022.
‘For the women, those who get infected are mostly under 30. We have young women as young as 16 who come and have been diagnosed with gonorrhea’, says Aarvold.
Gonorrhea was a common sexually transmitted disease in the 1970s. The record in one year then was 15,000 cases of infection. According to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the incidence fell dramatically in the 1980s, probably due to more effective diagnostics and treatment as well as better infection tracking. But in the last twenty years, the number of cases has increased again…
Spreads Easily
Gonorrhea bacteria are transmitted through oral, anal, and vaginal sex. The STD is highly contagious and the risk for a woman to become infected during vaginal intercourse is between 50-70%.
And there are more people who have gonorrhea without having symptoms. Untreated gonorrhea can in the long run threaten fertility and women are particularly vulnerable.
The venereal disease can be treated with antibiotics. But in several countries it is now being reported that several cases of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea bacteria.
Aarvold asks parents with teenagers at home to find a drawer or box:
‘Then someone puts condoms there and says it's just a matter of helping yourself. Then you know where to find it and then we just fill it up’, advises the doctor.
See what I mean?
If you’re a ‘responsible parent’, just buy condoms for your teen is about as absurd as it is going to destroy your child’s sanity.
Hear me out on this one, esp. if you’re a young woman reading this:
No sane man who seeks a committed partner wants to start a family with a woman who has a high ‘body count’.
Setting aside the risk of STDs, I suspect that the emotional and psychological impacts of frequent ‘casual’ intercourse with many changing partners is even worse than any medical problem.
Also, if your personal history is one of promiscuity before parenthood, it might be a wise idea to not encourage your children to go down that same path.
Personally, I consider the above-voiced ‘advice’ to parents incredibly idiotic, esp. since, historically, the relative ‘value’ (attractiveness) of women as potential bearer of children decreases with every ‘casual’ sex partner.
I’m not saying this to render a value-judgement, but I do think that the medical experts’ (sic) failure to mention this is telling.
Given that birth rates are precipitously low, it is also highly idiotic to proceed further down that particular ‘liberation’ pathway.
Could this increase have anything to do with the general deterioration of people’s immune systems due to the bio-weapon jab? It stands to reason that if it can cause increased incidence of turbo cancers it could easily increases incidences of STD’s.
Start using the old cure for "dröppel"?
A red-hot iron catheter is inserted into the urethra.
Nah. Kidding, but the current jump is mimicking the one in the 1970s when charter travel to Mallroca and Teneriffa became common-place.
"Free" condoms is a good investment in public health.