I have no problem with gays if they leave me alone, but clearly, as a simple matter of fact, they are going to be dropping like flies in the pandemic phase of the Apocalypse:

Men who have sex with men (MSM) are two percent of the population but make up 55 percent of people who were HIV-positive in 2013, according to a CDC fact sheet released last Wednesday. More than nine out of 10 new HIV diagnoses (92 percent) come from young gay and bisexual MSM, ages 13 to 24. If these trends continue, one of every six men who has sex with men will be diagnosed with AIDS in his lifetime. Already, 15 percent of all HIV-positive homosexuals and bisexuals don’t know they are infected, the government agency said. “Gay and bisexual men are also at increased risk for other STDs, like syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia,” the CDC added. The CDC reported that men who have sex with men are 44-times more likely to contract HIV than heterosexual males, and 40-times more likely than women. Earlier this year, the CDC estimated that half of all black MSM will get the disease, a statistic that is repeated in the latest fact sheet.

AIDS is not a difficult disease to avoid. Even if I were gay, I am pretty confident I could be gay and avoid it easily. The coming pandemic will probably be hard to avoid. It will require that you actively take aggressive measures to avoid it. Imagine how that will spread among gays, who right now could almost turn arm-amputations into an uncontrollably spreading pandemic.

The really interesting thing to watch will be Zika, because if we see that spread aggressively now, which I assume it will, we will be watching a measure of the burn rate of the next lethal pathogen.

If Zika, as a poorly transmissible pathogen, burns as aggressively as it probably will, you will be seeing the main reason people have historically tended to want to keep their distance from gays. Homophobia is an evolved trait for a reason. If the next pathogen can be spread sexually, and spread by normal contact like a Flu virus, those who do not avoid gays will probably be culled as aggressively as the gay population.

That is a prescription for rapidly de-rabbitizing a population, and it explains why Y. pestis produced the Renaissance.

Sometimes the future looks incredibly dark, but the truth is all paths lead to an Renaissance. We just need to make sure we survive the chaos that is coming to see it.