... At least I don't have to worry about 'passing it on' through my genes... not that it's going to matter whether I do or don't: 90% of america'll have HSV1 by 2050. It's ridiculously easy to catch, and most people get it in childhood. I'm not concerned with transferring that to anyone (unless they tell me they've NEVER had a cold sore, in which case, well... I respect their choice with the information).
But... if I have an oral case of 2? I'm going to laugh long and hearty and cruelly bitter.
Not because I wouldn't have assumed I'd have it by now... but that I could have picked that up in the last year or so, finally, as an adult, with a full understanding that I have a 1 in 6 random shot of receiving it (and far far higher in reality, considering the nature of the person(s) I would have been involved with in that time).
Still, it's another thing to deal with, if I do. Course, there's not necessarily any indication that I *have* picked it up... just, that was a far nastier outbreak than outbreaks usually get.
TLDR: Sorry, i'm not a biologist. I'm just kinda tetchy at the moment, thinking about things that would annoy me.
But... if I have an oral case of 2? I'm going to laugh long and hearty and cruelly bitter.
Not because I wouldn't have assumed I'd have it by now... but that I could have picked that up in the last year or so, finally, as an adult, with a full understanding that I have a 1 in 6 random shot of receiving it (and far far higher in reality, considering the nature of the person(s) I would have been involved with in that time).
Still, it's another thing to deal with, if I do. Course, there's not necessarily any indication that I *have* picked it up... just, that was a far nastier outbreak than outbreaks usually get.
TLDR: Sorry, i'm not a biologist. I'm just kinda tetchy at the moment, thinking about things that would annoy me.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
