Hiding symptoms of communicable diseases

[Ranger99]

So I still see all the television
commercials for all the things
that would probably best remain
private, like feminine issues
and hemorrhoids and male
plumbing issues, but I'm more
disturbed by all the symptom-hiding
drugs they advertise.
Things like the valtrex to hide
symptoms of herpes, and the
dovato to hide symptoms of aids.
None of these say or profess to
be a cure, they only say that
you'll remain " undetectable ",
in other words it helps to hide
symptoms of a deadly disease.
I wonder what else that is available
along those lines?
That kind of thing bothers me.
Seems kinda backwards.

[billy_56081]

Herpes is so common now it isn't even considered an STD. Around 20 to 25 percent of people have it.

[Ranger99]

Yeah
That kind of stuff allows people
infected with incurable diseases to
move freely and interact with unsuspecting
healthy individuals. I've only actually
known one person with genital herpes 
A woman I was seeing had a relative
that knowingly had been intimate with
this barely legal girl with hardcore
genital herpes. They came over one
evening to visit before I knew about it,
and after they left my girlfriend started
screaming and I ran in the bathroom
where she was, and the whole toilet
seat had a bloody ring around it.
JMHO- people that knowingly spread
infected bodily fluids like that should
be imprisoned