What has happened to our Village's reputation
 

Read an article today in a northern NY newspaper about STD's. According to the CDC 2013 The Villages has a STD rate of 277.5 per one hundred thousand. This was one of the lowest rates in the country. A nearby comparison is Tampa / St Pete at 731.6 per one hundred thousand. The top ten cities in the US range from 1899.2 per one hundred thousand (#1) to 1489.2 per one hundred thousand (#10). What has happened to our active lifestyle?

A ride through TV will show that our active lifestyle is alive and well. Aside from the obvious golfing seniors go to any town square and you will find seniors shopping and eating and after 5PM (sometimes before) they are dancing and singing. I come from NY and I believe NY is being decimated by seniors leaving NY State for Florida and other states. I couldn't wait to get out of that state and I only have to go back once a year for the holidays thank goodness. As far as STD's that is old news and is mostly made up in my opinion for the reason I stated about NY.

I am confused by that OP;

How can you have 1899.2 - 1489.2 per thousand? 1899 is more than a thousand, is it not?

Is the low STD rate supposed to be a reflection or gauge of a poor active lifestyle in the Villages? Does Tampa / St. Pete have a better active life style because they have a higher STD rate?

Something must have been read incorrectly, please share the source for this article.

Math is hard, but I don't get your numbers. Are you saying 3 out of 4 people in Tampa have an std?

To answer the question....."nothing!
You just happen to get some old tabloid type info that has wrong numbers.
There are over 100,000 of us living quite happily in the best possible, outstanding lifestyle areas on the planet.

Joyce you are so right - math is not so hard but mornings before coffee are. The data was per one hundred thousand not thousand. I'll try to edit the original post.

If you came here with STD wouldn't you spread it if you are having sex with several partners on campus or off? probably going to get worse as baby boomers become majority? Yep, know what I'm saying:popcorn:

It is just a f_____ shame. I here about this and it always makes me mad. News media.... I think they all are just jealous of our great community.

poorly written article and stats
 

The article sounds like it is filled with flawed stats. I don't give it much credit for being true based on this. I would be more afraid of what goes on in the other Florida cities and not so much Tv.

I am sure that every resident of The Villages is very sick of discussing this issue. The bottom line is that the statistics do not exist. STDs are reported by county and then broken into cities. The Villages is in 3 counties. Statistics are available for Sumter, Lake and Marion counties. Statistics are available for Ocala (Marion), Wildwood (Sumter) and Fruitland Park (Lake). But if someone reports that the statistics are for The Villages alone they are not true. By the way, CDC reports rates per 100,000, not 1,000.

wouldn't it be detected here
 

Most Tv seniors have regular health care checkups so wouldn't it be detected and possibly treated if possible. I would hope so and if you knew you were infected , what are your possible legal responsibilities. For hiv positive you can be prosecuted.

These are the American cities with the highest rates of STDs | Fusion

The linked article might help clear up some of the math comprehension problems.

Just keeping my pickle where it belongs.

Stop!!!
 

Read the O.P.s post carefully once again. He is clowning around. He just made it up. It is meant to be a funny, If you read it carefully it is saying humorously that we no longer have people reporting us as passing around STDs and we have dropped the ball or ....the plural. He is asking us why we aren't out there spreading STDs and keeping up that old erroneous reporting from NINE years ago.


Go back and read it one more time. Read it and see if that isn't the gist of it. Rustyp you scoundrel. Many of us haven't taken our Blood Pressure medicine yet.

Yeah, Gracie! I was beginning to think I was missing something in the post.

As to the problem, I think the pre-activities like dancing are wearing out our partners before they can get things up and going.