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America Is Charlie Sheen: CDC "Alarmed" At 20 Million New STD Cases Spike

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Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Charlie Sheen’s announcement that he is HIV positive has created a huge uproar as critics attack him from every direction, but the truth is that Charlie Sheen is simply a reflection of our society as a whole.  You see, the truth is that it isn’t just big Hollywood stars that are engaged in risky sexual behavior.  According to the CDC, there are 110 million cases of sexually-transmitted disease in America today, and another 20 million STD cases are added to that total every year.  The United States has the highest STD infection rate in the entire industrialized world, and more than half of all Americans will have a sexually-transmitted disease at some point during their lives. 

Approximately one out of every four teen girls in the U.S. has at least one sexually transmitted disease, and our nation spends $16,000,000,000 a year treating STDs.  So go ahead and point a finger at Charlie Sheen if you want, but just remember that he is only a very small part of a raging national epidemic.

Now don’t get me wrong – I am certainly not defending Charlie Sheen.  I am simply pointing out our hypocrisy.  We love to tear others down while not realizing our own faults.

On Tuesday morning, Charlie Sheen told the world that he is HIV positive.  The following is how USA Today announced the story…

Charlie Sheen is HIV positive, he told Matt Lauer during a much-touted exclusive Today show interview Tuesday morning.

 

The actor, whose drug use, rehab stints, legal issues, outbursts, on-set antics and many romantic entanglements have shaped his bad-boy image, confirmed the news, which had been swirling since Monday.

Of course Charlie Sheen is not being criticized for being HIV positive.  Rather, the reason why so many people are jumping on him is because he continued to have unprotected sex even after he learned that he had HIV

When Lauer asked Sheen if he had engaged in unprotected sex since his diagnosis, the actor responded in the affirmative. “The two people I did that with were under the care of my doctor and they were completely warned ahead of time.”

Talk about stupid.

And yet millions of other Americans are also running around having casual sex with people even after becoming infected with a sexually-transmitted disease.

For example, let’s take a look at chlamydia.  According to the CDC, last year we broke the all-time record for the number of new chlamydia cases reported…

Chlamydia cases had dipped in 2013, but last year’s total of more than 1.4 million — or 456 cases per 100,000 — was the highest number of annual cases of any condition ever reported to the CDC.

 

The chlamydia rate was up almost three percent from 2013, new figures revealed.

The CDC is also reporting that cases of gonorrhea and syphilis are rising as well

The CDC report revealed gonorrhea cases totaled 350,062, up five percent from 2013, and the most contagious forms of syphilis jumped 15 per cent to 20,000 cases.

What makes these numbers even more heartbreaking is the fact that our young people are being disproportionately hit by these diseases.

Of the 20 million new STD cases each year, Americans from the age of 15 to 24 account for about half of them.

This should not be happening.  We have dramatically failed our young people, and the numbers just keep getting worse.

But instead of changing course and trying to do things differently, our entire culture continues to promote casual sex.  As I wrote about just recently, the average American spends an average of 293 minutes a day watching television.  And these days it is hard to find any show on television that is not talking about sex, and sometimes the commercials are the worst.

We need to teach our young people that there are rules, and that there can be very serious consequences for breaking those rules.

Above, I wrote about the latest numbers for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, but there are other STDs that are raging out of control as well.  The following statistics for HBV, genital herpes and HPV come from the American Sexual Health Association

  • One out of 20 people in the United States will get infected with hepatitis B (HBV) some time during their lives. Hepatitis B is 100 times more infectious than HIV.
  • Approximately half of HBV infections are transmitted sexually. HBV is linked to chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis and liver cancer.
  • It is estimated that as many as one in five Americans have genital herpes, a lifelong (but manageable) infection, yet up to 90 percent of those with herpes are unaware they have it.
  • With more than 50 million adults in the US with genital herpes and up to 776,000 new infections each year, some estimates suggest that by 2025 up to 40% of all men and half of all women could be infected.
  • Over 14 million people acquire HPV each year, and by age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. Most people with HPV do not develop symptoms.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that we have a massive problem in this country.

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Of course, the CDC has a modest ax to grind...

Common sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea have exploded in recent years, in part because of reduced funding for public health clinics, federal officials reported Tuesday.

 

Certainly, this is the first time since 2006 that all three of our notifiable sexually transmitted diseases have increased," said the CDC's Dr. Gail Bolan. "Some of the increases are quite alarming."

 

What's going on to cause the increase? There are several factors, the CDC says. Budget cuts are a big factor.

 

"Most recently, there have been significant erosions of state and local STD control programs," Bolan said. "Most people don't recognize that the direct clinical care of individuals with sexually transmitted diseases is supported by state and local funds and federal funds."

So more funding will help..

But we certainly don’t want to hear about “morality”, do we?

We don’t want it anywhere in our schools, in our courts, in our government or in our entertainment.

We just want to do whatever we want to do, but then we are shocked when we learn that there are very serious consequences for being so reckless.

This STD epidemic is going to continue to rage out of control until we find a solution.

 

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Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:33 | 6809843 Oldrepublic
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Highest STD rate in the US is WDC!

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:35 | 6809851 Apocalicious
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No, this isn't correct. Our effete, disconnected, cloistered intellectual elitist aristocrats told me they've outsmarted immorality. It's no longer a thing.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:36 | 6809857 Jameson18
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So out of the 20 million what percent are illegal aliens?

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:11 | 6810008 Anopheles
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A better question is what percentage are on wellfare or social assistance. 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:39 | 6809865 Herdee
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Lots of sex with multiple partners while coked up and F'n drunk always does it for him.Question is,why would a guy pay out $10 million in bribes?Now the legal ramifications for infecting others over the years.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:40 | 6809869 Doom and Dust
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But.. but... I thought you jewified yanks let the medical estate cut your foreskins precisely to prevent HPV?

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:42 | 6809879 Berspankme
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Washington DC is a syphillus sore on the US and the world

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:46 | 6809895 johnlocke445
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Is anyone really suprised at the number of new STD cases? When we have a main stream media and network television telling the world, on a daily basis, that it's okay to stick your penis up another man's ass then society better get ready for some dire consequences.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:56 | 6809935 PirateOfBaltimore
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See my other post.  I bet this is more related to zero dollar copay birth control than anything else.  Can't get pregnant?  Why bother with a condom?

Except pregnancy is easy to detect after the fact.  STDs, not so much in many cases.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:09 | 6809997 Lucky Leprachaun
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Or diarrhea consequences?

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:50 | 6809908 stonehands
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America is: soft, infertile, decadent.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:08 | 6809991 Lucky Leprachaun
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Only the productive class is infertile.  Noamsane?

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 21:44 | 6811702 SeekingNuNormal
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agreed

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:51 | 6809910 Herdee
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"We're a Christian country"eom

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:56 | 6809925 PirateOfBaltimore
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In all honesty, I wonder what correlation there is with the # of birth control prescriptions written annually.  We made BC free, eliminating the biggest adverse cost to having unprotected sex with multiple partners (pregnancy).

 

I'd love to see a study on that.  I'm sure free contraception increases unsafe sex because one of the biggest reasons (and most detectable post-copulation) to use protection is now eliminated.  If you're pregnant, you're going to know it in less than a couple of months typically.  If you end up with an asymptomic STD, there's a good chance you could not know for quite sometime while spreading it to others unknowingly.

 

It would be incredibly ironic if zero-dollar copay birth control, sold as "womens health", actually ended up having an adverse impact on overall women's (and men's) health over all.  #UnintendedConsequences

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:55 | 6809926 PoasterToaster
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So is this more pro-vaccine propaganda or what?

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:59 | 6809948 Sanity Bear
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When you factor out the negroes and the faggots, what's the rate for everyone else?

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:06 | 6809982 Lucky Leprachaun
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But these are the only ones who really matter in our new vibrant societies.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:11 | 6810011 kbohip
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I don't get it?  We've raised our young women to worship sluts like Kim Kartrashian, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and the like, and we've made sure they know their bodies are their's alone to do with what they want.  We've even glorified single mommery (slutdom) to the highest levels possible, and as we all know, single moms always make such great decisions raising kids.  That STD's are rising higher than ever in an environment that mother's are buying thongs for their 15 year old daughters should be a surprise to no one.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 18:35 | 6811053 Blankenstein
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Kim Kartrashian became famous from being in a sex tape and parents let their daughters watch her television program.  We are truly an idiocracy.  

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:17 | 6810012 juicy_bananas
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Thank the faggots and the Jews that push this shit on society.  As crazy as the Muslims are, at least their women aren't trotting around half naked like sluts and having abortions from multiple baby daddies.  Bitch I am NOT THE father!

Fairy faggotry is a self destructive lifestyle.  Just ask the main faggot in the white house.  Anyway, there are reports that Sheen was having gay orgies and I wouldn't be surprised.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:20 | 6810052 Lucky Leprachaun
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"we have dramatically failed our young people"

What utter BS!  Young people have never had greater access to reproductive information including that related to STDs.  If they catch something it's their own fault.

Actually we have failed young people but not in the way the writer suggests.  We've failed them by feeding them an unending diet of sex and pornography (e.g. MTV), hailing the 'courage' of homos for 'coming out', making idols out of degenerate freaks like Caitlin Jenner, mocking the traditional family unit etc.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:36 | 6810106 Anopheles
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Interesting figures from the CDC about the REAL numbers, per 100,000 population.  You could also call it the "who NOT to bang" list

              Women    Men

Black      1432        772

Natives   1023        303

Hawiian    971        285

Hispanic   559        207

White      253        105

Multirace  174         81

Asian       152         68

So, black women are 6 times more likely to have Chlamydia than white women.   Similar trends for all STDs. 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:36 | 6810124 Berspankme
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Another first for the negroes

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 16:59 | 6810571 bluskyes
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yes we can

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 01:17 | 6812168 SixIsNinE
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 thank you satan

If you haven't heard by now, when you play Obama saying "Yes We Can" , it DOES sound like "Thank You Satan" .... when hearing about that earlier this year, I thought no way - but I recorded it and reversed it on my editor, and it does !

Now also understanding the freemason's usual want to reverse things, it would make sense.

I did find it a kind of odd slogan, but slogan's are supposed to be simple short and dumb, kinda catchy

It would make sense for the Manchurian Candidate be given that as a campaign slogan

 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:35 | 6810109 Berspankme
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Obama leads by example. He has his dick up reggie or this ben finkenbinder all the time. His wife....cough...cough is a tranny bitch. Fucking americans worship these kardashians and lohan sluts. These women are basically pigs, no wonder 1-4 girls get an std. They all want to act the hollywood crowd.

 

Fucking country is a cultural wasteland

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:40 | 6810136 Skiprrrdog
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Were all just jealous...Sheen has probably had more sex on accident than all of us have had on purpose...

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 16:11 | 6810292 The Darwin Mode
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Jealous of one who has HIV, lives in a drug-wrecked shell of a body, and clearly possesses not a whit of wholesomeness, humanity, or enlightenment? It appears you're not qualified to speak for us all.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:47 | 6810168 stonehands
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The American military is tasked with spreading homosexuality, globally. 240 years of military code of justice shredded and spit upon

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot here the falconer;

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity...


 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:51 | 6810186 Gregory Poonsores
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Charlie doesn't know how he got it.

He used to pay 10k a piece to trannies to go to his house so he could suck their cocks.

HIV is rampant among those mutherfuckers.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 15:54 | 6810197 American Psycho
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You can't spell Stud without STD. 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 16:06 | 6810247 The Darwin Mode
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"We certainly don’t want to hear about 'morality', do we? We don’t want it anywhere in our schools, in our courts, in our government or in our entertainment." --Michael Snyder, fundamentalist Christian

In other words, indoctrinating children into the Christian ideology should be compulsory in public schools, because being moral means being Christian. And we must ensure the Ten Commandments are posted in every courtroom and statehouse in the country, so that any non-Christians seeking legal recourse will be reminded that their beliefs alone are proof that they have already abandoned morality (ie, they are wrong). Should a court bound to Mosaic law dispense justice to those who violate Mosaic law? I think not.

...And naturally Christians don't get STDs, because they're moral.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 16:52 | 6810539 FrankDrakman
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You are pathetically stupid. What has happened in North America is after we took Christian morality out of schools (usually at the behest of either Jews or atheists), it was NOT replaced by some equivalent morality. Instead, it was replaced by Secular Humanism and moral relativism, which in its simplest terms breaks down to "If it feels good, do it". (If you want the long explanation of this, I'd be glad to furnish it.)

It's not the absence of Christian morality, per se, but the absence of ANY morality, along with the negation of responsibility for your own actions, the disconnection of work and rewards (e.g. social "pass"), and the promise of anything you want provided gratis that has screwed the West. I'd be happy with any morality that said there were ulltimate values, that says "If a man does not work, neither shall he eat.", and that the truest words in the universe are "it's nobody's fault but mine". 

Except Islam, of course, Them folks is crazy. 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 16:48 | 6810265 22winmag
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With a few notable exceptions, many STDs are *not* even on the level of staph or strep.

 

I'm surprised any young people still have sex with all the hype.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 16:21 | 6810344 BarkingCat
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"Budget Cuts"...

 

I call bull shit. The biggest reason is that people do not want to use condoms. Wear a freaking rubber for crying out loud.

It does not provide 100% protection as rubbers can break, but it sure as hell is safer that riding bareback through whoresville.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 16:54 | 6810548 FrankDrakman
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Just ask Chico. 

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 16:34 | 6810402 giggler321
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More people = more sh**

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 16:40 | 6810446 RagnarRedux
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CDC: STD Rates Among Blacks

Blacks are less than 13% of the US population.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/healthdisparities/africanamericans.html

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 16:57 | 6810562 bluskyes
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What is this we, and our that I keep hearing about? There is only me, my family, and a few friends.

Is the sex craze driven by a longing for intimacy, and a real relationshp? or just popularity and social approval of some sort?

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 17:15 | 6810684 PoasterToaster
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We've gone from the "blame yourselves" to the "you are all disgusting filthy pigs who deserve what's about to happen to you" phase of the propaganda.

Wed, 11/18/2015 - 18:49 | 6811134 stonehands
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Actually, most of you are fag and feminist enablers, so you do deserve what's going to happen to you.

 

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 01:35 | 6812190 onmail1
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And the prostitute(America) riding the beast which was dead but became alive(Israel),

had a cup in her hand full of ugly filth(pornography & immorality & drug abuse) with which she made all nations drunk

The angel of death poured diseases over the humankind.

the statue with head of gold & feet of clay fell down broken in the richest city of the world (9/11 new york, HIV was also discovered in new york)

The dead shall rise again from graves (petroleum the liquified form of dead bodies of ancient past and oil becoming the cause of the worst world war 3)

There will be greatest earth quake , fire from sky, peoples eyes burning in their sockets (nuclear war)

Then there will be judgement day

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