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TZubiritoday at 12:44 AM1 replyview on HN

Granted they also do less alcohol and drugs I hear. But it's still very early in that cohort's life, and there's also going to be other next cohorts.

The expected timespan for the benefit of this cure to dissipate would be in the decades.


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mullingitovertoday at 12:54 AM

Is your expectation that Gen Z is going to do something no other generation has done and start having more sex as they get older?

For most policymakers, if curing STDs is what it takes to coax people into having more sex (and thus hopefully adding net positive numbers to their labor force) they'd put Manhattan Project-level funding into the effort.

Meanwhile cervical cancer was never really a thing that people associated with STDs, up until the point that the vaccine knocked out the strain of HPV that was causing it.

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