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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 8 May 2000 23:21:23 GMT
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Tom Stangl wrote:
> But it doesn't HAVE to go on - all you have to do is force the damned idea through
> their heads that SEX (and sharing needles) CAN KILL, so either stay monogamous, or
> use condoms, or just use your own personal hands and skip the interaction with the
> other sex altogether ;-).
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> ***Handing people drugs to keep them alive longer while they continue to have
> unprotected sex, furthering the disease, is Socially Irresponsible.*** I would
> think this would be obvious to anyone.
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 :/
). Also,
that opinion is on purely scientific ground, it's difficult to pick the
right
thing to do when you bring emotions into it.
We(the world) should be funding an intensive program for a vaccine- it
was done
for polio and many other viral infections. Although the full-tilt sex
ed class
would certainally help slow the spread, sex can be a difficult urge to
keep in
check. Maybe a combination of the two...
-Chris
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| This is somewhat rambling, but here goes... (...) But it doesn't HAVE to go on - all you have to do is force the damned idea through their heads that SEX (and sharing needles) CAN KILL, so either stay monogamous, or use condoms, or just use your own (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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