Re: (ReacTor) Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper

On 7/22/2025 7:05 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 7/21/2025 9:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:19:59 -0400, William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
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Scott Dorsey wrote:

William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Irrelevant.  Randolph was sick, possibly but not certainly from
syphilis.  Nothing heritable, at any rate.

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But syphilis -is- heritable, and frequently was inherited in the 19th
century and the early part of the 20th before Dr. Ehrlich's cure.
--scott
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As I understand it, the victim is contagious for a few years, but then,
though still infected, he no longer spreads the disease. So if Randolph
caught it - and it is far from clear that he did - it must have been
well before his marriage.

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Many US states used to require blood tests before issuing a marriage
licence and in most jurisdictions the stated reason was to ensure
sexually transmitted diseases weren't present at a marriage.
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This has been waived in most jurisdictions in the last 50 years. (At
least I didn't have to do one though for my own benefit did a medical
checkup late in our engagement)

 Blood tests were required in Texas when my wife and I got married 43 years ago in 1982.

It was required in MA as recently as 1989, from personal experience.
My browser's AI claims no states require it now, with Montana being the
last to drop it in 2019.
pt