Submitted by Charles Knighton
Should the money spent on sex education be re-allocated?
Having harboured a long-standing belief that the time, effort and costs associated with government and/or NGO supported education programs designed to modify negative or dangerous human behaviour mainly serves as a means of employment for the various program facilitators, it was heartening to learn, beginning two or three years ago, that the rate of new cases of HIV infection had begun to decline as the effects of educating people in safe-sex practices had borne fruit.
Now, though, we seem to be faced with a conundrum, as the Chief Medical Officer has taken to both print and visual media to warn of an alarming spike in cases of syphilis. As we are all aware of how this infection is transmitted, claims for the efficacy of safe-sex education go out the window. Importantly, eliminating this red herring in the reported decline of HIV infection should provide an impetus for researchers to discern the proximate cause for this phenomenon.
Finally, could not the monies expended on such seemingly futile educational campaigns such as NISE or anti-littering or safe driving or anti-marijuana or healthier eating and safe-sex practices be put to more constructive uses?
It is obvious the programs put in place are not working. What did that British doctor that was shown the door say if the sexual practices of this island goes unchecked?
So the number of syphilis cases is swelling. Is that caused by something else swelling when it shouldn’t?
There must a correlation between increase transactional sex and STDs. This is a number which will be hard to control. We can’t be an anything goes society and expect high level responsibility when it comes to caging primal desires. There is a trade off.
ONCE MORE…………………..
NO STRUCTURE
NO SEQUENCE
NO SUBSTANCE
NO MARKS!
THE AUTHOR IS CONFUSED IN PRESENTING HIS THOUGHTS AND SEEMS TO BE IGNORANT OF HIS TOPIC
HIS CONCLUSION IS AN OBVIOUS NONSEQUITUR
@GP
Are you saying that we don’t have a problem? Are you saying that if HIV infections are flatline but syphilis is on the rise that we should not have cause for alarm?
DAVID
I SAID……THE AUTHOR IS CONFUSED IN PRESENTING HIS THOUGHTS AND SEEMS TO BE IGNORANT OF HIS TOPIC
HIS CONCLUSION IS AN OBVIOUS NONSEQUITUR
Dr. Schlossberg’s words returning to bite, real hard.
@ David
GP is correct. Don’t forget – he is a teacher….
On the problem being highlighted today (appropriately) however, the inference is that there is too much casual sex being practiced in the society….
Well duh!
Don’t we have a culture that is based on raw, carnal, drunken, casual, meaningless sex?
What the hell is the whole crap over thing about? All the songs are about beating bumpers, six-thirty positions, jamming iron and drinking drinks….
All the street parades are about selling alcoholic drinks, getting on like wild animals, and behaving in the most carnal and degrading way….
When mothers and sisters and wives can feel comfortable to dress as they do and behave as they do IN PUBLIC IN THE STREET…it should be clear that as a society we are gone….
Now what the hell can we expect as a result?
……well adjusted children?
…..respect for our women?
…..responsible men who can be leaders of families, businesses and government?
Brass Bowls….
What we sow we shall reap.
…so if the syphilis infections are any indication of the harvest ….wunna can work back….
Perhaps this syphilis “harvest” may be easier for some to see than those that we are reaping in the case of justice in our courts; crime on our streets; chaos in our families; and poverty in our economy…..and perhaps some of us may yet see that IT ALL STEMS FROM THE THINGS THAT WE SOW…..(…but not ac, she still think um is a political issue…)
@Bush Tea
BU is concerned with the ‘issue’ at large. The other issues are irrelevant.
@ David
GP is correct. Don’t forget – he is a teacher….
And because he GP is a teacher does that make him a good one? And by whose opinion is he good one? GP your are extremely surly individual and very asinine as well.
BUT DAVID, THE ISSUES BUSHTEA RAISES ARE RELEVANT AND DEFINITELY RELATED TO THE INCREASED INCIDENCE OF SYPHYLIS
GENERALLY THERE HAS BEEN A DECREASING INCIDENCE OF SYPHYLIS REPORTED SINCE 1981, WHEN THE FIRST CASES OF HIV WERE REPORTED.
WITH THE HARD TIMES CREATED BY DLP INEFICIENCY, DECREASED MORALITY, INCREASING PARTYING AND MATERIALISM, DONT YOU EXPECT AN INCREASE IN THE INCIDENCE OF SYPHLIS
DOES THIS MEAN THAT Finally, the monies expended on educational campaigns such as NISE or anti-littering or safe driving or anti-marijuana or healthier eating and safe-sex practices be put to OTHER uses?
MY STUDENTS THINK THAT I AM A GOOD TEACHER ISLAND GIRL
DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOU THINK
GP you attitude say it all!
correction says it all!
GP said:
“BUT DAVID, THE ISSUES BUSHTEA RAISES ARE RELEVANT AND DEFINITELY RELATED TO THE INCREASED INCIDENCE OF SYPHYLLIS.”
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Always analyze the root cause of the problem and you solve the problem.
WAIT!!!
IslandGal talking bout somebody’s attitude!?!?
Ha Ha Ha….oh shirt!!!
Wuh that is like Bushie talking bout sensitivity…… Muh Belly!
It is regrettable GP seems either unwilling or unable to marshal his reputedly vast knowledge of medicine to offer reasoned argument, instead of relying on ad hominem petulance. SO CHILDISH!
ONCE MORE…………………..
NO STRUCTURE
NO SEQUENCE
NO SUBSTANCE
NO MARKS!
THE AUTHOR IS CONFUSED IN PRESENTING HIS THOUGHTS AND SEEMS TO BE IGNORANT OF HIS TOPIC
HIS CONCLUSION IS AN OBVIOUS NONSEQUITUR
Charles Knighton | August 5, 2013 at 11:14 AM |
yOU SEEM TO THINK YOU HAVE SAID SO MUCH…..BUT YOU HAVE NOT. YOUR BABY QUESTION HAS BEEN EASILY DISMISSED BY BUSH TEA. AND THE CONCLUSION OF YOUR LITTLE DITTY IS A NON SEQUITUR.
IT MAKES LITTLE SENSE TO USE MY vast knowledge of medicine ON BU, AS YOU, AND THOSE OF YOUR ILK ARE UNABLE SEEMINGLY TO DISCUSS THE ISSUES RAISED.
I CAN EASILY POST MY MICROBIOLOGY TEACHING PPTS ON SYPHILIS, BUT WHAT IS THE POINT?
Negative ….negative….. negative……think on the bright side syphilis is easier to get rid of than property in Barbados
STRUCTURE…to expand and to educate public awarness …………………SUBSTANCE ………….To Find ways and differnce avenues to tackle and confront the problem head on………….Sequence ………….taking what we have learnt and bringing it all together to achieve positive results………. The article gets FULL MARKS for bringing this subject in a public forum such as BU so as to encourage thoughtful and meaningful discussion……
A subject as serious as this we have an in house so called Doctor among us displaying the highest form of arrogance and downright disrespect to the BU bloggers. Instead of a meaningful contribution he attempts to take down the author. They say what and how we write gives an insight who we are. Thank you GP for your disdain of BU bloggers and contributors. Now why don’t you get the hell out of here you scumbag of a Doctor! You are a disgrace your profession!
corrrection A disgrace to your profession!
@island gal……………OUCH! that really hurts ….. calling 911…….time to take GP off life support……..
There once was a man named George Thomas, pastor in a small New England town. One Easter Sunday morning he came to the Church carrying a rusty, bent,
old bird cage, and set it by the pulpit. Eyebrows were raised and, as if in response, Pastor Thomas began to speak. . .
“I was walking through town yesterday when I saw a young boy coming toward me swinging this bird cage. On the bottom of the cage were three little wild birds, shivering with cold and fright.
I stopped the lad and asked, “What do you have there, son?”
“Just some old birds,” came the reply.
“What are you going to do with them?” I asked.
“Take ’em home and have fun with ’em,” he answered. “I’m gonna tease ’em and pull out their feathers to make ’em fight. I’m gonna have a real good time.”
“But you’ll get tired of those birds sooner or later. What will you do then?”
“Oh, I got some cats,” said the little boy. “They like birds. I’ll take ’em to them.”
The pastor was silent for a moment. “How much do you want for those birds, son?”
“Huh?? !!! Why, you don’t want them birds, mister.They’re just plain old field birds. They don’t sing. They ain’t even pretty!”
“How much?” the pastor asked again.
The boy sized up the pastor as if he were crazy and said, “$10?”
The pastor reached in his pocket and took out a ten dollar bill. He placed it in the boy’s hand. In a flash, the boy was gone. The pastor picked up the cage and gently carried it to the end of the alley where there was a tree and a grassy spot. Setting the cage down, he opened the door, and by softly tapping the bars persuaded the birds out, setting them free. Well, that explained the empty bird cage on the pulpit,
and then the pastor began to tell this story:
One day Satan and Jesus were having a conversation. Satan had just come from the Garden of Eden , and he was gloating and boasting. “Yes, sir, I just caught a world full of people down there. Set me a trap, used bait I knew they couldn’t resist. Got ’em all!”
“What are you going to do with them?” Jesus asked. Satan replied, “Oh, I’m gonna have fun! I’m gonna teach them how to marry and divorce each other, how to hate and abuse each other, how to drink and smoke and curse. I’m gonna teach them how to invent guns and bombs and kill each other. I’m really gonna have fun!” “And what will you do when you are done with them?” Jesus asked.. “Oh, I’ll kill ’em,” Satan glared proudly. “How much do you want for them?” Jesus asked. “Oh, you don’t want those people. They ain’t no good. Why, you’ll take them and they’ll just hate you. They’ll spit on you, curse you and kill you. You don’t want those people!!”
“How much? He asked again.
Satan looked at Jesus and sneered, “All your blood, tears and your life.”
Jesus said, “DONE!” Then He paid the price.
The pastor picked up the cage and walked from the pulpit.
Yawwwwwn…ZZZZZZ……what a load of unadulterated CRAPOLA from a so called Doc! Disingenuous and extremely distorted. And very two faced too! Keep yuh God man Jesus let that invisible man in the sky lead you. He has obviously led you well in the areas of disrespect, disdain, hypocrisy, arrogance and pompousness!
ROTFLMAO
Man GP whatis the point in u being so overly aggressive..the writer never claimed to be a doc. as a so-called christains you are sorely lackingin patience .Now get back to drawing board and be Christ like..
AC
I WAS NOT AGGRESSIVE
I JUST MARKED THE MAN’S STUPID ARTICLE. AND SHOWED IT UP FOR WHAT IT WAS BEFORE JOINING BUSH TEA IN DISMISSING HIS WAFFLE
WHAT IS THE POINT OF ME WASTING MY TIME. FEW ON BU ARE INTERESTED IN TOPICS TO DEAL WITH HEALTH OR MEDICINE. WHY SHOULD I CAST MY PEARLS BEFORE THE SWINE
YOU THINK THAT BECAUSE AN IDIOT COMES ON BU WITH BS I HAVE TO COMMENT AS YOU DEEM FIT
READ HIS ARTICLE AGAIN AND SEE THAT HIS CONCLUSION IS INCOHERENT
READ WHAT BUSHTEA AND I WROTE AND SEE THAT WE HANDLED THE ISSUES
I LIKE TO SEE YOU GUYS RANT AND RAVE AT NOTHING
ITS MY ENTERTAINMENT
ITS NOT THE FIRST TIME IVE BEEN CUSSED ON BU AND IT WONT BE THE LAST
ROTFLMAO
Serious problems
people with GP’s mentality
from a era of discrimination
racism and dehuminisation
insulting gestures and words
superiority complex ?
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaggga
NO YAGGA
JUST THE TRUTH
LOL
GP…………..many shall be called but few will be chose……..However it does not make sense to ounish all for a few .the reason some are disappointed at your reactiion because those of us who have read your postings whether we agree or not gain some thing positive and most were looking forward to reading your response in the area of medicine . give charles some credit for highliting such a serious medical and social problem for serious debate and discussion. rethink yoir position
Dr. GP has instructed BU to post the following presentation for the edification of those who trundle the world wide web.
See Presentation on SYPHILIS
AC
BUSH TEA AND I HAVE ALREADY ANSWERED HIS LITTLE QUESTION AS SIMPLY AS HIS SIMPLE SUBMISSION HAS BEEN
@ Dr. GP
You are an excellent Doctor. I know it and many others too. Thanks to the info you have posted on BU and sent privately, my health is much better. Few people, it seems, appreciate all you have done to educate us about our health and lifestyle impacts on it.
For your information, even though I put on 6 pounds in Bim in five weeks, my last blood test on July 24th was good. My Dr. walked in smiling, and she only smiles when she is happy.
Look at these: LDL – 1.4; HDL – 1.5; HbA1C – .06; triglycerides- 0.56;
albumin creatinine ratio – 0.3; blood pressure 122/77; fasting glucose -.05.
I am still heavy at 83 kilos and a waist of 90 centimetres. But I refer to your slides on a regular basis and credits this with staying with the program. Give yourself a pat on the back!!!
Pat
PAT
GLAD TO HEAR THAT YOU ARE IN GOOD HEALTH AND IN GREAT SHAPE TOO!
THANKS FOR YOUR KIND COMMENTS
I agree with GP s method …. if his advise keeps women at 83 kilos, and a waists of 90 centimeters then their chances of getting syphilis are probably very small.
ROFLMAO…Lawson that was classic LOLLL Good one!
DAVID
whats the point mingling with morons
RE
Look at these: LDL – 1.4; HDL – 1.5; HbA1C – .06; triglycerides- 0.56;
albumin creatinine ratio – 0.3; blood pressure 122/77; fasting glucose -.05.”
clearly the emphasis of Pat’s post is on the treatMent of her DIABETES RATHER THAN HER WEIGHT.
SURELY WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF DUMMIES!
A growing problem on BU of late is that we easily become consumed by ad hominems exchanges. Let use this forum to learn, share and burst a laugh a laugh from time to time. Yes there will be acrimony but it cannot be allowed to infect all we do here on BU.
To whom much is given much is expected. We have a forum which allows us to discuss issues in ways never before.
look doc I guess you haven’t heard of dr./ patient confidentiality, some people may know who she is … I don’t think she would want people knowing her business especially her insurance company. So please only have your patients with syphilis write in on your behalf
JACK ASS NO ONES WHO SHE IS
SHE IS NOT MY PATIENT
SHE LIVES IN CANADA I LIVE IN FL I HAVE NEVER MET HER
AND
JACK ASS NOTE SHE GAVE VALUES LIKE
: LDL – 1.4; HDL – 1.5; HbA1C – .06; triglycerides- 0.56;
; blood pressure 122/77; fasting glucose -.05.”
WHICH HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH SYPHILIS
YOU HAVE INSULTED A PERSON ONLY BECAUSE SHE CHOOSE TO LEARN FROM MY POSTS ON BU OVER THE YEARS……AN ABILITY THAT YOU CLEARLY LACK
BARROW WASTED HIS TIME WITH THIS FREE EDUCATION DIDNT HE
SORRY LAWSON
I HAVE BEEN TOO HARD ON YOU
SEEMS YOU ARE DEMONSTRATING SYMPTOMS OF TERTIARY SYPHILIS
you certainly are narrowing it down a heavy set female living in Canada with questionable values who is willing to take advice over the net from a person with a foul mouth living in Florida who denies she is one of your patients How are you so sure…….is it she doesn’t have four legs? .
I DO KNOW SHE HAS A BRAIN AS SHE HAS BEEN POSTING ON BU FOR YEARS
WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT YOU SEEM TO HAVE GENERAL PARALYSIS OF THE INSANE…..A COMMON COMPLICATION OF TERTIARY SYPHILIS
I am sorry for suspecting you of being a vet…. it just seemed like you are the type to be involved in animal husbandry.
Lawson please please cease and desist! You got me brekking up ROFLMAO LOLLL This is the best piece of laughter I have had for the week. You are on a roll. LOLLL Anudder great stroke straight for the boundary lines!
NO LAWSON I SPECIALIZED IN SEEING PATIENTS WITH TERTIARY SYPHILIS
@ islandgal246 | August 6, 2013 at 4:07 PM |
You see how powerful words can be?
Thereby putting a lie to that saying ‘sticks and stones might break your bones but words cannot hurt’; especially if they make for good comedy between two friends from overseas.
Yes Miller words are powerful indeed! LOLL especially when a hypocrite friend comes in to support the doc only to be strung up by another brilliant BU blogger! LOLLL Hope you had a really good laugh Miller.
Lawson this thread is rather infectious ..so be careful you don’t get caught. LOLLL
@ Pat …please keep your vital statistics in a safe with the key where no one can find it. LOLL
@ lawson
You really mek me think that you do not think! Instead of trying to insult and put down the good Dr. and cast aspersions at me, why did you not ask a few questions… for instance, if you think 180 is heavy, you could have asked, have you always been this weight? have you lost any weight? are you losing or going to lose any weight? Is your Dr. (the vet) happy with this weight, etc. etc.
By the way, I am a fairly tall, big boned lady. People looking at me think I am 150 and my freinds say not to lose anymore, (yea, I was heavier, way, way, heavier). In fact, I wear a size 10-12. Twelve tops and ten bottoms. So, you see, the joke is pun you. I also agree with the good Dr…..wasted education $$$$
@Islandgal246
Hypocrite? Can you prove I am a hypocrite? when my vital statistics reach 36-26-36, I will surely let you know. ha, ha, ha!
“when my vital statistics reach 36-26-36, I will surely let you know. ha, ha, ha!”
There is nothing wrong in dreaming Pat…Dream on LOLLL
@islandgal246
at nearly 70 years old, dreaming is one of me favourite pleasures. I suppose if I went on HRT, I may get back there, but then at almost 6 feet, I would be like skin an bones. besides, old, bony, black wimmen ain suh attractive. In these climes we need to keep a layer under the skin. Just ask the good Dr.
WHY dont you ease off the sex thing
Too much of anything is always a problem/ Sex is for producing children. The main reason for sex. not all the kinky sadistic behaviour of a lot of crazy -ass ignorant people not able to control their desires.
Pat I find it hard to believe you are Canadian as you have not ended every sentence with eh. You again claim PG is your doctor yet the vet you never met claims nyet. By size 10/12 are you referring to shoes, and if people think you are 150 ….you should stay out of the sun. Trust me I am not insulting you just trying to make a few laughs, when my education is made fun of no problem, the only way I was getting to university was in a jar. But when a SY-Philistine takes me to task I will not smite him with the jawbone of a doctor but the occasional barb
@ lawson,
Where did I claim he was MY Dr.? Comprehension problems?
Yes Lawson, the size 12 tops are hats and the size 10 bottoms shoes. You do understand somethings, eh? My congratulations!!
When I am on this blog, I am Bajan to de bone. by the way, there is nothing wrong with having fun, but this is a serious thread. Barbados has a high incidence of HIV infections and is the “supposedly” amputation capital of the world as a result of UNCONTROLLED diabetes. Think about it Lawson before you make fun of an old woman like me and a Dr. who is trying to help his people. For your information, weight is only one indicator and does NOT indicate good health. My neighbour’s daughter weighs 190 and is like a scarecrow. Her collar and hip bones stick out. She has no boobs and less butt, is 5 feet,10 inches, and looks like 120 pounds.
@ DR. GP:
I like the word LAKH, it is Hindee, is it not? like two lakh rupees? Are you sure all the bloggers will understand that word? I know Bushtea, old onions and the miller will, but will Lawson, for instance? Very good slides as usual.
By the way, when I was in the teaching profession in the 60’s, we had to take our senior students to see a MOE film at the Plaza or Empire on veneral diseases. It was called “Devil in the Flesh”. It was very graphic, I was young and have never forgotten it. Talk about half rotten penises, vaginas with large oozing sores, etc. The only face saver was that ALL the subjects were white. If they were black, I dont think I could have watched. They also talked about the Wasserman test after the movie. some Dr. of MOE official, dont remember, that was 50 years ago.
THE DR YOU SPEAK OF MIGHT HAVE BEEN VAUGHN WELLS OR MAURICE BYER
THESE GUYS WERE REAL STALWARTS IN DEVELOPING PUBLIC HEALTH IN BIM.
I USED THIS PPT IN MY MICROBIOLOGY COURSE LAST YEAR
I PUT IT UP MY PPTS ON BU FOR FOLK LIKE YOU, HANTS AND THE FEW OTHERS WHO CARE TO READ ABOUT THESE MATERS.
I HOPE THAT MY CRITICS WILL NOTE THE STRUCTURE
Primary
Secondary
Latent
Tertiary
Congenital Syphilis
THE SEQUENCE OR FLOW OF PRESENTING THE MATERIAL AND
THE SUBSTANCE OR HOW THE OUTLINE OR STRUCTURE IS FLESHED OUT WITH RELEVANT FACTS DETAIL AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
Pat I will have to take your word that you are a poor old lady, however that being said …”The only face saver is the subjects were white.”…not to old to get a little racist though. Maybe you should ask the Doc where he got all his info …. maybe the Tuskegee trials. Scandalous how they were treated but no harm in using information no matter how it was collected .But as you have said this is a serious subject so check out the kadooment videos and tell me how this disease is making the rounds eh
@ GP
Sorry for you if you expect Bajans to appreciate anyone calling for high standards and PRIDE in the things that we do. Ours have become an “any-thing-goes” society – where the most crude forms of mediocracy are acceptable and any hint of basic action is taken as genius….
You checked out our examples of “creativity” in culture this (and every) Crap Over?
100% shiite songs with ZERO creativity, very limited lyrical content, piss poor structure and no taste.
NOT A SINGLE uplifting composition about love, or family, or growth, or community……ALL about humping bumpers, winning, jamming, drinking “drinks”, eating bacon …..and condense condense condense..
We have institutionalized mediocracy to the point of art…
Hundreds and hundreds of mostly sloppy looking, mostly naked revelers actually and literally “doing the dog” along the public road is the epitome of our main cultural festival…and the Minister announced it to be a great success….
Brass Bowlery is what it is….
In such a context, the writings of our friend is indeed a refreshing attempt….
Your expectations of an Introduction, Structure, Sequence, and Conclusion may therefore be unrealistic, given the local environment….the poor chap is constrained by being in Rome and having to ‘do’ appropriately….
One of the things this country suffers BADLY from, is a lack of persons of your ilk, who are bombastic enough to call a spade a spade and to put morons in their proper place……………..but don’t expect the morons to understand or appreciate that fact 🙂
BUSHTEA
OBVIOUSLY I HAVE BEEN AWAY MUCH TOO LONG OR/ AND THINGS HAVE GONE DOWN HILL REAL REAL FAST
OR I HAVE LEFT SCHOOL TOO LONG AGO
BUT I GUESS YOU ARE CORRECT BECAUSE NO ONE SEEMS TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ANSWERED THE MAN’S SO CALLED” IRONY” IN YOUR FIRST POST
@ ac
Now that your man has run off to Arizona, don’t you think you should start going to church and get saved, or get another (foolish) man, or join a Lions Club or something…. ANYTHING but hang around BU looking for someone to notice you…?
HUSH!
Face it GP…
You are OLD!
LOL
bush tea whats your problem DOC,
Why are you calling Bushie “DOC”….you looking to make Pachamamma light in bushie’s tail now nuh…?
Bushie has no problem….wish we could say the same for you…you ain’t got nothing better to do at this time of night…?