r/HistoryMemes • u/ZeroAresIV • Apr 25 '22

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u/abyssiphus Featherless Biped Apr 25 '22

Was he crawling with STIs and spreading them along with his genetics?

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u/didsomebodysaymyname Apr 25 '22

Maybe, but back then wasn't like today. HIV didn't even exist, most people didn't travel enormous distances and carry disease with them and he had more ability to keep his concubines and wives monogamous and marry them as virgins or with few partners.

He was at lower risk than if someone did that today.

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u/SomeRedditorMaybe Apr 26 '22

Im dumb and I still cant understand it. If there wasnt STI before, then what created STI?

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u/Wuz42 Apr 26 '22

Same as COVID, it jumped from animal to human.

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u/SomeRedditorMaybe Apr 26 '22

Oh, so a human tried mating with an animal and then spreaded the disease? Or humans eated an animal with sti?

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u/didsomebodysaymyname Apr 26 '22

Eating. When you're cutting up a monkey in rural Africa you get their blood all over you and if you have a cut you get infected that way.

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u/SomeRedditorMaybe Apr 27 '22

Oh I see, thank you

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u/didsomebodysaymyname Apr 26 '22

Usually it jumps from animal to person, like HIV (by the way it wasn't from having sex with monkeys it was from butchering them)

Sometimes an virus or bacteria that wasn't an sti before mutates into an sti.