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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 9 May 2000 00:04:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> The ones who listen to the education and change their habits will live and
> those who don't won't.
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
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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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". (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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