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  • In this case, the United States. When healthcare is expensive and hard to access, not everybody gets it.

    Syphilis symptoms can be so mild they go unnoticed. When you combine that with risky sexual behavior (hook-up culture, anti-condom bias) and lack of testing due to inadequate medical care, you can wind up with untreated syphilis. If you become homeless, care gets even harder to access.

    You get diagnosed at a late stage when treatment is more difficult. They put you on a treatment plan, but followup depends on reliable transportation and the mental effects of the disease have made you paranoid. Now imagine you’re also a member of a minority on which medical experiments have historically been done without consent or notice.

    You don’t really trust that those pills are for what you’ve been told at all. So difficulty accessing healthcare, changing clinics as you move around with medical history not always keeping up, distrust of the providers and treatment, and general instability and lack of regular routine all add up to only taking your medication inconsistently.

    Result: under-treated syphilis











  • Skydancer@pawb.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlAny Discordians on Lemmy?
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    1 year ago

    We had one, but there was a schism over the location of the Brunswick Shrine. That kicked off a round of mutual excommunications. By the time it was over, the mod had accidentally excommunicated (blocked) themself and everyone else had blocked each other.

    So start one! Or five! May a thousand communities bicker for the greater glory of Eris Discordia. Kallisti!




  • Not as many problems as traveling without one.

    Having traveled before with someone in that exact situation, yes, there will be harassment and TSA may very well intentionally force you miss your flight and end up waiting to fly standby on the next one. But as of now, you generally do get through, which cannot be said for traveling internationally without any passport at all.

    Will that change? Highly likely. Soon? Probably.

    But there are a not insignificant number of people who only recently decided it’s no longer safe, applied for passports, made plans to leave, and saw recent stories about passports not being issued. This type of scare mongering does not help them, and can be actively harmful to their mental health and well-being.

    Edit: Obviously the longer they stay, the higher the chance this changes.