That wasn't an intentional dig at the South or the ppl. I love the South, but it's not a secret that health, healthcare knowledge and health care gets the worst marks in the deep south.
Sorry Coppr, I disagree, but won't touch what you said, Fugi would be along. HIV, these days, is much more often transmitted by IV drug abuse than by sexual intercourse.
Zach, cancer existed before nuclear power? The sun is a pretty powerful source of radiation, no? In the old days ppl died for other causes before cancer got them? Or cancer wasn't known well enough to put on the coroner's report?
It's not politics, it's what we assume to be fact extrapolated from data.
Poor areas always have worse health than affluent areas. This is both due to less actual medical care, and stress, which has a ridiculous impact on our overall health.
Areas where an abstinence approach to sex education (historically stemming from religious roots and still strongly backed) have much higher rates of teen pregnancy, and STI's.
Black communities also have higher rates of both than average white communities for reasons economic, educational, and cultural.
This is supported by hard data. Avoiding it because politics makes no sense. We can have a logical discussion about data and it's interpretations and implications without dragging this into the realm of politics and religion bashing.
