Edited by - AngryPirate on 1/10/2019 4:17:32 PM

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1. There has been no reported instance of ever getting HIV through oral. It is pretty much impossible, two every other STD can for the most part be cured more or less. Except Herpes, and three the only deadly STD you could have gotten though the chances for that are small too, is hep-c and even that recently got a cure. Though it is very expensive, about 70 grand-150 grand at least for 12 weeks of pills you have to take.

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If medical professionals say it remains possible while it is exceedingly unlikely, who are you to state that it is impossible?

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Imagine you're flipping a coin. The chance you'll get a heads on the first flip is 50%. The chance that after two flips you'll have gotten a heads at some point is 75%. (There are four possible outcomes for the two flips: heads/heads, heads/tails, tails/heads, and tails/tails. Three of those four, or 75% of them, involve the coin having landed on heads at least once.) If you flip it three times, there's an 87.5% chance. After four flips, it's 93.75%, and so on.

Now, there's no law saying you must have gotten heads (heh) after many flips. But the more times you flip the coin, the less likely it is that it will never have been heads. In other words, as you increase the number of flips, the chance that it will have hit heads at least once approaches - but never reaches! - 100%.

Something with an insanely low probability, like for example a phone reassembling itself in the shoe box after its take apart and placed in the box, is not fundamentally any different - you're just starting off with a much smaller number. But the basics are just like the coin coming up heads: the longer you shake the box, the chance that, at some point, that insanely rare event (the phone reassembling) would have occurred goes up and up and up. The longer you shake it, the closer that chance creeps towards 100%.

This does not mean it has to eventually reassemble itself. Just that the longer you shake the box, the more likely it gets.

By the way, it's worth mentioning that these percentages are calculated from the start - i.e., they're the chance that, if you flip the coin N times or shake the box for X years starting now, the event you want (the coin landing on heads, the phone coming back together) will happen. It doesn't work if you pick it up in the middle. For example, if you flip a coin 10 times, there's about a 99.9% chance it will land on heads at least once. But! If after the first 9 flips, it's somehow landed on tails every single time, the chance that it will come up heads on the tenth flip is 50%, not 99.9%

Unless either of you had recent oral surgery(on average it takes about 4-6 weeks for typical routine oral surgery operations to heal) and bleed a lot and had the virus the chance is negligible in day to day affairs.

He just has to take it easy. I remember wish my first few girlfriends, I didn't trust them growing up because I was and still am a health nut and got checked every 3, 6, and 12 months for everything. He just needs to relax and take it easy is all I'm saying. 99% he caught nothing and if he did HIV is the last thing he should be worried about getting based off this story.

Edited by - Lime on 2/17/2019 5:25:09 AM

Edited by - Lime on 2/17/2019 5:28:25 AM

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On a side note, do you mind elaborating which star this was you mentioned earlier "considering the recent HIV diagnosis of a prolific porn actor as well as the discussion of allowing HIV+ people to perform and not requiring them to disclose their status if they have a seemingly undetectable viral load" Also that is a really disgusting thing to do. If you want to perform with this virus you should get sent to prison with conspiracy to kill, you something. And the people even thinking of this should be shunned for life.

Edited by - Lime on 2/17/2019 9:45:43 AM

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The case I was referring to is the recent report that Nacho Vidal is HIV+ along with speculation that he worked knowing of his diagnosis but not disclosing it.

The discussion of allowing HIV+ performers to work in the industry is more general and not directly related to Nacho's case, Free Speech Coalition held a panel reviewing "informed consent" with a hypothetical scenario where those with HIV would be allowed to perform if they have a low viral load and they informed the studio and anyone they work with. Apparently no recognized testing system has been changed to accommodate this "informed consent" policy but that this is being discussed as an option is worrying for the industry.

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