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Posted: 6/26/2001 6:09:53 AM EDT
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Yeah, I've never really understood that part either.
I agree that in african countires where the infection rate is creeping towards 40 percent of the entire population, then it IS a national crisis - on every level. In the US it is a tragedy for those that have it (my fiancee's best friend just recently died of AIDS) but not in any way whatsoever a threat (or even a mild inconvenience) to national security. What bugs me is how it's called a epidemic - or even more grotesqely a "pandemic" The flu in 1918 was an epidemic, the Black Death in Europe was a epidemic - AIDS in the US is an infectious disease, but not an epidemic. Epidemic means that the disease infects a large proportion of the population (and pandemic means an epidemic over a large geographic area). In some African nations, it is entirely accurate at this point to decribe HIV/AIDS as having reached epidemic proportions, but certainly not in the US or in Western Europe. How many of you know, or have even personally met someone with HIV/AIDS. If it was en epidemic, everyone on this board would know people with HIV/AIDS. |
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Posted: 6/26/2001 6:51:31 AM EDT
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If the idiots in Africa ( New York, San Francisco, Chicago ,etc.. ) kept their pants on, there would be no problem. It like blaming the Phoenix sun in July for getting a sunburn - horseshit, you knew the risks and now your paying with your life. Was it worth it? I'll be dammed if some of my money goes for research for a behavioral based disease that could be easily eradicated if people stopped the wrong behavior.
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Posted: 6/26/2001 6:56:39 AM EDT
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Despite the best efforts to classify it as otherwise AIDS is still prevalent in the gay sex, and intravenous drug communities.
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Posted: 6/26/2001 7:11:52 AM EDT
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Ask your parents, or grandparents,who were alive in the 1900-1945 time frame about venereal disease. Until the accidental discovery of Penicillin if you got Syphilis you were doomed to insanity and a slow death, just like Al Capone and countless others. The "cure"
was simple, keep your pants on and only sleep with your spouse. It is a symptom of modern society that no one wants to accept the consequences of their own irresponsible actions and demand they be taken care of by the nanny state. The survivors will be those who figure it out. Maybe it is a threat to AlGore since the nanny stateist mentality appeals to democRATS?, they're losing their constituants. |
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Posted: 6/26/2001 7:41:57 AM EDT
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I will give the AIDS activists credit for one thing: they put on a good show when they mix it up with the animal rights activists. [:)]
BTW, isn't the "Silence = Death" campaign ironic? The activists denounce "silence", but they themselves are silent about the sort of behaviours that put people at risk. I've never seen them carrying signs that say "Promiscuous Anal Sex = Death" or "Needle Swapping = Death". |
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