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(...) still (...) And that's unfortunate indeed. But I don't think Mike was trying to get into a "more of my friends died" contest, merely trying to show that he has some familiarity with the pain and suffering the disease causes back when you were (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No. Not in the general case it isn't. Sorry about that. ++Lar (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It was a rhetorical question, of course. You know I know who said it and I know you know I know. :-) ++lar (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Agreed. Fortunately, ours isn't (slowly warming). At least that's what the data indicate when not interpreted by "junk science" advocates. (...) THIS one, now this one is something to worry about. Keep messing with the drug company profit (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hypothetically speaking, of course. And hypothetically, I agree. In the specific case, I disagree. the virus is too hard to transmit for it to become a plague. I wouldn't even call it an epidemic, much less a pandemic. Now, if the virus (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's an awfully tall order, considering that we have billions of years of instinctual programming to overcome. (...) I.E. The Ugly and Unpopular will inherit the earth... ;) Jeff (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not sure - is that a straw man or a red herring? But I'll comment on it anyway. People don't choose to get old. People choose to have unprotected sex, of whatever kind. People choose to share needles. Is there another major way that people (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) How fortunate for you. I can think of 25 off the top of my head, but in actuality, its more like 75 that I personally knew. Of the first friends (20+) we made when we moved to NYC in 1982, there are four - FOUR - of us still alive. (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The destablization of countries not a threat to US National Security? The loss of a quarter of a country's workforce would destroy its economy. This could damage the economy of neighboring countries or those that back them financially. With (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) and (...) Thomas Jefferson said it in his innaugural address in 1801. (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In Australia, the number of newly infected has actually levelled out. Not sure if it was the education campaign that was aimed at the general population on prime-time TV here in the mid-eighties. (...) vector (...) organism (...) There are (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Then, (...) will (...) A logical argument to Larry's point. Plagues have a habit of overthrowing society. It's also a real possibility, of course, though not necessarily a probable one. Certainly not probable on a large enough scale to pose a (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Are you suggesting this as a real possibility, or as a logical argument to Larry's point? Chris (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Are there any population ecologists out there? Could it be that when there gets to be too many of a given organism in a localle, and predation isn't taking care of it, diseases become a likely vector for population control. Maybe (if AIDS (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Unless, of course, widespread plague causes civilization to break down. Then, the ones who listen to the education *and* successfully dodge the bullets will survive. Witness what happened to the Jews during the Black Plague. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You mean something like "honest friendship with all who seek it, entangling alliances with none"? Now, who said that? ++Lar (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The ones who listen to the education and change their habits will live and those who don't won't. Heartlessly simple, but then, that's evolution in action for you... It will only take a few generations. In geological time, that's "shortly". (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Several things are concurrently happening. Some of them are dying. Such an alarming number of them are sick, that their broken social system that has thus far not provided a socially acceptable method of teaching basic health and safty topic (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sorry, I should have added to my post(s) that I do not support the giving/using of life-prolonging drugs that would result in the situation Tom just described above. (thought about when i started to write and promptly forgot about it :/ ). (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why does my own priorities about how my tax money should be spent have to do with whether or not I "care" about those people? Do I think its too bad that that many people get AIDS and will more than likely die from it? Yeah, I do. I also think (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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