https://www.kcbd.com/2023/07/06/lubbock-seeing-500-increase-syphilis-cases/

What the hell is going on in Lubbock? We are very close to not being able to treat many of these stds.

Well who would have thought pfizer to be the sole supplier of the best treatment.

Lubbock being Lubbock!

Doing their own gain of function research in Lubbock

Open borders plus hookup culture?

Debbie does Lubbock

Has anyone tried horse paste?

500% increase in Lubbock? Is that even a mathematical possibility?

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a spike in infections during lockdowns that remain latent and undetected due to a lack of medical care other that COVID for two years.

OP is worried about the increase in STD infections in Lubbock's youth that are untreatable, but not liberal culture that is infecting America's youth that is also untreatable.

He must be a liberal!

I would try to correlate the numbers to income status, drug usage/type and geographic residence.

My immediate guess is the proliferation of fentanyl in west Texas as a major causative factor:

" CBP seized 107 pounds of fentanyl in 2019 and 692 pounds in 2022. The El Paso Field Office alone recorded an increase of 936 percent: from 36 pounds of fentanyl seized in fiscal 2020 to 373 pounds seized in fiscal 2021."
https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2023/jan/fentanyl.php