Oh come one... are you discounting the studies of top medical facilities on the basis that they are doing the study on the horrible and the wrethed? You reference being a natural scientist. Then you understand that every study must incorporate a selection of people to enter into the placebo and drug numerics. In order to secure legitinacy in test results of this nature they take the rich, the poor, the sick,the hungry, the middle class in equal gender. They do not warp the results by saturation of the unworthy to curve the end result. It is scientific , not natural science, rather research based with selection parameters. If you do not want to accept the tests as legitimate, don't . That doesn't make it go away, it just encapsulates you in a false sense of security.
No am no discounting. But when study says X is Y, well I look at the sample pool and methodology, because am no a monkey that just reads headline and make action on this headline. If say 16% of the people commit 50% of the violent crimes, is crime up? Am I more or less likely to be either a victim of crime or a committer of violent crime? If someone claims for example, that "people are being massacred in the streets by police" and then the data says this is no true, then the writer of the headline is a liar today and always. Cannot have position of supposed authority and lie and then ever expect anyone to believe. I mean, I guess monkeys will believe, but monkeys believed for a quarter million years that a magic man carried a golden disc across the sky every day. So, yea.
During COVID time, "cases are up" was the headline and the entire story, people with authority to make me lock the doors of my plant and send men and women home without job made decisions based on this. But it turned out that there was more to "cases are up", turned out immunocompromised made risk many times higher, obese, smoking, and so on, to the point that a huge majority of us looked at each other like ok but why am I locked out of my business? Again, burying useful data inside other data to achieve an agenda or mitigate blame for failure to act in correct way.
Say among 100k persons studied, 10% are the people I referenced, people who live in motel and open legs for everyone bareback and are also IV drug users and maybe they go to the jail often too, don't eat right, smoke, and so on. This is 10k persons. The rest are 90k persons, everyone else, of which I am member of this set. If each set has 500 cases, then total cases are 1% of the studied set. Now say ten years later we study, but now there are 15% cityfolk, and their cases went up 10x, so now 5000 cases. But for everyone else, there are 5% fewer cases. Total cases are now 5.5% of studied set, a 450% increase!!!!!!!!!!!!. I can publish headline, CASES ARE UP, RUN FOR THE FUCKING HILLS YOU DIRTY SERFS! But I am in the subset whose cases actually went down in both fraction and actual count. My alarm bells don't go off for this.
When I see study is signed by some dickhead who recently said COVID will kill us all if we don't lock ourselves in our homes, or any of the other horseshittery we have heard from our supposed betters, I see study with no subset data and I see insignia of organization that I do not believe, I might go bareback tonight just because.
Can massage study any way one likes, either positive or negative, in belief or no belief, but I don't see a breakdown and I believe my own lying eyes before I believe "them". For every study that might be true, same person is writing the Len Bias headline. In my own lying eyes, I personally have seven best pals we all monger and we all converse about mongering, all have been mongering between one and five decades, and we all are disease free. Yes, the article claims that the disease has changed and is now resistant, so can discount those five decades of experience, but in the 80s and 90s you were supposedly going to die if you buttfucked a dude bareback and your heart would explode if you did a line and baby Jesus was going to send a bolt of lightning or a flodd if you didn't go to the church once a week. Just not buying it. Remember ten years ago the earth was going to end in ten years? They had a hundred studies and all kinds of scientists screaming this and here we are ten years no ended earth. I just landed here in San Fran from the Singapore, and I can assure you I could see continents and ocean and sky and it was all there.
Last, as others mentioned, if there is money in curing or treating resistant STD, then someone will do it, and it will happen. However, there is often the same amount of money in just managing the diseases, as with current HIV drugs, so companies will say ok I can cure a guy for 10k, or I can make him feel better for 2k a month every month forever. I don't know or care what agenda is for people who publish studies with obfuscated data, or agenda for people who present these studies in television or internet also without any underlying data, but can imagine the agenda is no to help us to make correct choices.
All that said, be safe people, BBFS is for sure not the safest activity, but despite what political forces have their little puppets say with a hand stuck up their asses to make their mouths move, you aren't going to die instantly.