13 July 2025
1. HSV/HPV Infection Reframing
● I am considering again the possibility that I have overstated the risk of asexual HSV/HPV transmission.
● These are mainly STIs, transmissible through intimate (but not always 'romantic') physical contact.
● Transmission through household/workplace objects and surfaces is a concern, but mainly for places that come into significant contact with the viruses.
● These include toilet seats, toothbrushes, towels, bed linen, laundry baskets, washing machines, shared food utensils/glasses and cups/platters/straws, keyboards, and vapes etc.
● Having HSV or HPV visible symptoms increases the risk of ‘viral shedding’, but as previously stated, both viruses can also be spread when asymptomatic — especially with HPV.
● Yet other communal places — ranging from public sports changing rooms to hospital wards, for instance — are special cases, with higher risk potential. Even ‘sanitised’ surgical equipment poses a risk.
● I will continue to revise my findings at Hidden Pandemics, though I believe that there are some robust and common-sense personal health and policy proposals.
● One such excellent proposal, in an article previously cited by me and since medically reaffirmed, is to reduce the HPV vaccination age to newborns, thereby averting rare but tragic childhood cancers, pre-cancers, and vector potential (the vaccine makes any recipient less likely to pass on HPV to another person).
● As such, the site will remain online, unless my full findings are comprehensively disproven.
● I will review all Hidden Pandemic research files (i.e. 1-10), integrating feedback from new scientific literature since 2022, and also utilising AI support (Chat-GPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude).
● This is a large-scale process, and I would welcome the input of any interested parties, whether medically credentialed or not.
● Each of the Hidden Pandemic files, 1-9, is a communally editable Google Doc. I may consider making the entire website public-access, although excepting the Confession (10), for privacy and accuracy reasons.
2. Confession
● Confession extended/edited
● Confession also submitted to ...
Medium’s 4th Wave, Human Parts (possibly in future Sexography and The Virago).
NYT’s Modern Love.
Potential submissions to other publications (suggestions/objections both very welcome).
3. Communication
● Following a security breach of my Google Drive account / Gmail, I am exploring a move to Protonmail,
running on Firefox.
● I am contacting various individuals by email / DMs to emphasise this new Updates page.
● I hope to develop an automated newsletter via the Hidden Pandemics homepage.
● Social media profiles for @hiddenpandemics registered; most visible at https://linktr.ee/hiddenpandemics.
● Those profiles have a single, simple post promoting the Hidden Pandemics website,
e.g. on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@hiddenpandemics.
● I am now running my internet activity through Apple’s inbuilt MacOS Firewall.
● Nord and Proton VPNs are not working.
4. Legal Dimensions
● As I understand it, all self-reporting by me to authorities listed here will remain on file in perpetuity.
In other words there is no time limit for a victim to self-identify, even if that occurs decades from now.
● Full extent of self-reporting to police, campus entities, and rape crisis centres …
United Kingdom
Avon & Somerset Police, Case File: AS20250602-0011.
Bristol’s The Bridge rape crisis centre [NEW].
The Metropolitan Police (London) [NEW].
University of Oxford (SHVSS, Admin Support Service, OSARCC referrals (possibly disbanded), SEE project @ OSARCC, Oxford SU, Oxford Counselling, Oxford Harassment Line.
Goldsmiths, University of London (Campus Support, Wellbeing, Goldsmiths SU ‘Bystander’ Initiative).
King’s College Hospital ‘The Havens’ project.
Galop LGBTQ2IA+ anti-abuse organisation.
Germany
Berlin Polizei/Police (Direktion 1, Direktion 53).
LSVD Berlin (LGBTQ2IA+ advocacy).
LARA rape crisis centre.
United States of America
NYC: NYPD (Special Victims Unit)
British Consulate NYC.
Columbia University (Department of Anthropology, Public Safety, Columbia Health).
Hawai‘i (Honolulu Police Dept, British Honorary Consul, UHM Title IX office, UHM Manoa Advocate service, UHM Counseling).
China
5. Patreon
● One social media profile is Patreon, a crowdfunding platform.
● Usually Patreon pages ask for donations to the content creator.
Instead, I list the following organisations as suggested donation recipients:
International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF/Global South).
The Lullaby Trust (UK).
LSVD Berlin (Germany).
National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP/USA).
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC/USA).
The Samaritans (UK).
Stop AAPI Hate (USA).
National Center for Aids/STD Control and Prevention (NCAIDS China/Gates Foundation) [under consideration].
Xart Splitta / LARA Berlin [under consideration].
Amnesty International (China chapter) [under consideration].
● I have donated to all these organisations, and am considering donations to German and Chinese nonprofits, such as NCAIDS, Xart Splitta, and Amnesty International. Local and nongovernmental organisations would be preferred, in a spirit of decolonial grassroots activism.
● Besides this, I also use the Patreon page to moot the idea of these organisations acting as ‘intermediaries’. This would allow victims of mine, of any description, to anonymously apply for funds.
● Such funds could cover HPV vaccination, HSV testing, legal disputes, or psychotherapy (etc). This intermediary suggestion is totally hypothetical; i.e. not yet discussed, much less agreed, with the nonprofits above.
● In theory, some kind of Hidden Pandemics ‘confidential facilitator’ could be employed to aid victims in achieving intersectional justice and/or funding, with full anonymity retained. This is a speculative proposal with no basis — to my knowledge — in nonprofit precedence.
● My suggestion of anonymous reporting of sexual/social violence, or anonymous application for funds, implies pathways for anyone who might require them. It is not an expectation, regarding victims, that anonymity would invariably be sought.
6. Hidden Pandemics Website
● Considerating creation of Hidden Pandemics sub-pages for ...
My current STI status (at foot of current homepage).
Legal dimensions (with full details as above, plus advice for anonymously reporting
sexual/social abuse).
Donation suggestions (i.e. Patreon info).
● NHS (UK public health) staff are unable to access Hidden Pandemics Google Docs, so I am considering a switch to CryptPad, which has higher privacy protocols. I cannot confirm if CryptPad is NHS compliant until the cyber support team opens on Monday 14 July.
● Wider consideration of all Hidden Pandemics data and files underway. Currently running Gmail on Chrome for MacOS. Alternatives might include switching to Protonmail via Tor/Firefox … but this could introduce further confusion when emails are being complemented by web updates here.
● Any advice on cloud-based document communal hosting/editing; UK and global health security IT protocols; and email/browser security would be welcome.
● Publications file to be updated with details above ASAP.