Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of AIDS… so the damned activists will finally SHUT THE HELL UP about it.
U.S. government scientists have discovered three powerful antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains, more than any AIDS antibody yet discovered.
AIDS has to have been the oddest disease, politically, since the Black Death. Here’s a disease that’s astonishingly difficult to transmit and could have been contained nearly thirty years ago had public officials been as willing to quarantine AIDS-infectees as they would have been for, say, leprosy or zombie-plague infectees. Given that the vast majority of those infected with HIV/AIDS chose, with full knowledge, to engage in behaviors they knew put them at risk, the public response to the disease has been incomprehensible. Just try imagining instead of an “AIDS Quilt” or some such, there was a “cirrhosis of the liver quilt” for long-term alcoholics or a “meth-mouth quilt.”
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Long ago and far away, I exchanged e-mail with a card-carrying lesbian who campaigned for total freedom for AIDS people (they’re not victims when they choose to do that which causes harm, and most do, she told me). I pointed out that, given their behavior, a valid model for society’s reaction might be that used during the tuberculosis epidemic of the 30s and 40s. No, she said, to lock them up is to limit their civil rights. But what about my right to avoid the danger they provide by not having any self-control? Stick to your own kind, she told me. She never responded when I sent her to the various reports of tainted blood resulting from their failure to reveal their condition, and she became angry when I noted that only a tiny percentage of normal folk (she used “normal”) had the ailment.
It’s a huge political problem which is exacerbated both by their inability to admit it is a medical problem and by the political efforts to portray AIDS people as victims of outside influences.
Not my problem.
I wouldn’t call AIDS “astonishingly difficult to transmit” by any means; it can be transmitted by sexual contact (either straight or gay), blood transfusions, dirty medical insturments, or dirty hypodermic needles.
In short, about the same ways that things like hepatitis can be transmitted from person-to-person.
Although in the US it stayed primarily in the gay and drug-using community, that certainly wasn’t the case in Africa, where estimates of the total infection rate of AIDS in the overall population are as high as 28% in some countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa
I doubt anyone became an alcoholic from a transfusion of a alcoholic’s blood.
> I wouldn’t call AIDS “astonishingly difficult to transmit” by any means; it can be transmitted by sexual contact (either straight or gay), blood transfusions, dirty medical insturments, or dirty hypodermic needles.
All of which basically require the active, knowing participation of the uninfected with the infected. Ebola, on the other hand, can be acquired by simply walking through the same room as someone who has it. Walking past someone, and having sex with them, are *astonishingly* different levels of engagement.
You have to *work* at getting AIDS these days.
“You have to *work* at getting AIDS these days.”
Or go to a VA hospital:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/30/96815/dental-treatment-at-va-hospital.html
Not the first time that happened either:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/24/va-hospital-slip-up-infec_n_191296.html
What happened at the VA demonstrates the correctness of the judgment that it is difficult to acquire. A choice was made at the VA: to ignore the potential. This is the same sort of involvement and denial that is required to get it by sexual contact.
The only way it can be considered easy to get is to assume that random, unprotected, and frequent sexual contact is deemed to be normal behavior.
It’s always been a media darling, this epidemic, the reasons for which are best left as an exercise for the reader.
My feelings on the hype are exactly summed up by the “Lease” scene in Team America.
My dad died of prostate cancer, and I’ll probably end up with it, genetics being what they are. I await the prostate cancer quilt national tour or Elton John concert (and I have lots of his albums from back when he was good).
“Although in the US it stayed primarily in the gay and drug-using community, that certainly wasn’t the case in Africa, where estimates of the total infection rate of AIDS in the overall population are as high as 28% in some countries:”
As I recall, the first cases popped up in America, not Africa. Perhaps if we’d simply quarantined those who had it first here, it would never have spread there in the first place, or at least it would have been much less devestating.
“As I recall, the first cases popped up in America, not Africa. Perhaps if we’d simply quarantined those who had it first here, it would never have spread there in the first place, or at least it would have been much less devastating.”
Although when it first became known it was here in the US gay community, where it was referred to as “Gay Cancer”, it apparently was occurring quite a while before that in Africa, where it first evolved in the Chimpanzee population, then made the jump to people as far back as the late 19th or early 20th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_AIDS
AIDS may be curable, but you’ll never fix stupid. If it isn’t AIDS, it’ll be something else.
Jim