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Which of these now-treatable diseases would you least like to have?
syphilis 30%  30%  [ 3 ]
leprosy 30%  30%  [ 3 ]
bubonic plague 40%  40%  [ 4 ]
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22 Mar 2011, 5:45 pm

Which of these now-treatable diseases would you least like to have?

I'm going with syphilis, having seen the pictures.


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22 Mar 2011, 5:47 pm

:lol:
I don't know enough about them to choose yet. But I have a friend whose special interest is the black death.



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22 Mar 2011, 6:00 pm

Zen wrote:
:lol:
I don't know enough about them to choose yet. But I have a friend whose special interest is the black death.


My reasoning was:

Syphilis causes a slow, painful death and eventually looks even more hideous than leprosy
Bubonic plague causes a quick, painful death and looks hideous for the short amount of time you have it before dying. Some people actually survive it without proper treatment, though.
Leprosy doesn't actually kill you, or even really hurt that much, it just disfigures you. Plus it's really hard to pass it on to other people, but other people think it's massively infectious, hence the old leper colonies. The social stigma is the worst part, hence it's a bit like having AS :lol:


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22 Mar 2011, 7:24 pm

Bubonic plague, I'd say...

puddingmouse wrote:

My reasoning was:

Syphilis causes a slow, painful death and eventually looks even more hideous than leprosy
Bubonic plague causes a quick, painful death and looks hideous for the short amount of time you have it before dying. Some people actually survive it without proper treatment, though.
Leprosy doesn't actually kill you, or even really hurt that much, it just disfigures you. Plus it's really hard to pass it on to other people, but other people think it's massively infectious, hence the old leper colonies. The social stigma is the worst part, hence it's a bit like having AS :lol:


My reasoning was along similar lines, but a slow death, with its consequent opportunity to more adequately take care of things before the time comes around, sounds immeasurably preferable to a death that occurs within days.
What's more, if I was at the mercy of such a horrific disease, hideousness would be among the least of my worries. :P



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22 Mar 2011, 7:24 pm

Geez, the plague I think is a one shot deal in that surviving it confers immunity from catching it again, though I may be wrong about that, so as long as it wasn't too disfiguring I might go with that.



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23 Mar 2011, 6:44 am

Tennis elbow


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23 Mar 2011, 8:13 am

at least with syphilis and the plague, people wouldn't have shunned you as a pariah.


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