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I wish syphilis would explain our descent into right wing fever dreams.
But the real answer is rage farming engagement in an attention economy where the relative values of attention and persuasion are highly inverted and self selecting on a global but personal scale do nothing to challenge the viewpoints of the socially myopic.
I’ve encountered more cases of syphilis in the last 2 yrs than across the span of the last 20yrs. So, maybe.
Someone comes in with “altered mental status” and we were reaching for answers, to find the cause, so test, and find syphilis. So now we test more for this thing we rarely tested for and find more syphilis.
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/31/1228195107/syphilis-cases-soar-in-us-cdc-says
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It's a bit of a run on. Lol. And I think global and personal should be flipped. But I'll let it stand.