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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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Mon, 8 May 2000 20:17:56 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeff Stembel writes:
> > None of these diseases have infected, and will kill, a quarter of the people
> > in many African countries. Why is almost everyone ignoring this fact? These
> > people are the reason we should try to find a cure. I doubt many of them have
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> I'm not ignoring it. I just don't (personally) think they figure into my
> own "how should the government that is funded by MY tax dollars spend my
> money" equation, at least not more prominently than those "in need" in the US.
So what you are saying is that you don't care that 250,000(1) people around the
world get infected by HIV/AIDS every month? What makes you think that what
goes on in other less developed parts of the world will not affect the USA?
This is a viral plague- one that does not (typically) agree to any border
or population. The only principles it follows are ecological ones.
The US was/is a major cause of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The Reagan
administration had it's chance to do something early on that could have
drastically slowed down the spread of the virus(2). We should help
pay for it now.
-chris
1- about the number of people who live in Las Vegas, NV, that's a bunch
2- http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1990/ad900215.html
http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1988/ad880042.html
http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1988/ad881374.html
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| (...) Whoa, now wait just a minute. The US a CAUSE, simply because "action" (i.e. public money used to help develop drugs that the Private drug companies are profiting from) wasn't taken fast enough? Think that statement through a bit more. Africa (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm not ignoring it. I just don't (personally) think they figure into my own "how should the government that is funded by MY tax dollars spend my money" equation, at least not more prominently than those "in need" in the US. Which, of course, (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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