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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 23:52:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > > Especially if you figure that the
> > > infection rate has and most likely will increase as time goe on.
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> > _If_ you figure that, then the problem is worse. But I don't figure that. I
> > figure that the rate will decline shortly.
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> What leads you to think that? The infected people are not all dying very soon.
> Some (many) of them do not know they are infected, and many of them do not
> know how to prevent transmitting HIV. They will continue to pass it on, and
> probably for a long time. Unless they are educated about the topic, I don't
> see how the rate will decline.
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".
++Lar
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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 (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) What leads you to think that? The infected people are not all dying very soon. Some (many) of them do not know they are infected, and many of them do not know how to prevent transmitting HIV. They will continue to pass it on, and probably for (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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