Grady it is rare that you and I see eye to eye on issues, but on this statement you are 100% on target

It is true that many in the Gay Community have come to view HIV infection as a manageable chronic condition. This would be a dangerous misconception to hold if this new strain proves to be what is expected. I see no harm is alerting an unsuspecting public to serious health concerns. It is time to stop treating HIV infection as a political matter. It is a public health matter, pure and simple.

It is a public health matter and needs to be treated as such. The rates of unprotected sex in the gay community is staggering. And the advent of "cocktails" has reduced the fear the disease once had.

Anyone who is familiar with any of my posts regarding homosexuality, and equal rights knows that the topic homosexuality is something I feel very strongly about. But in this specific situation, you guys are definitely right on target.

This information should be publicly released on a wide-scale. But...the gay community wouldn't be so worried about it if they didn't feel that society as a whole wasn't so against them, and looking for reasons to hold prejudice. Whether there's a "super-bug" straing of AIDS or not, I suspect will unfortunately further many individual's reasons for having an anti-guy paradigm. Even though anyone who thinks keeping this information secret for the sake of the gay community's integerity has their priorities a little out of whack, those fears are not necessarily unfounded. If society would be more accepting, this information wouldn't be so feared to begin with.

Man, I am surprised that they are reacting like this. This modification of the virus is to be expected, along with drug resistance. This is something that the public should be hysterical about, because it seems to have gotten rather slack in being [i[fearful of aids, since the infection rates, nearly across the board, are rapidly rising.

This is a public health matter, not a poltico-socio one.

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"Blaming the victims" for having symptoms of epidemic infectious disease

They will be blamed more if they fail to respond, even within their own group, and curtail the transmission. Human groups are irrational creatures, society, as a whole, is not capable, apparently, at least in this case, of thinking rationalyl about the matter. Aids is deadly and transmitable thru unprotected sex. People were scared of it for a while. Then reason set in, and treatments became available. People weren't scared. They started to engage in dangerous behaviours, the disease started to spread agian, hell people are apparently even trying to get the disease, these 'bug chaser' idiots. So now the infection rate goes back up and people are dying.

Its almost fortunate that there is a rapid onset version now. It will make people think of aids as something horrible and disgusting, rather than something that merely requires you to take a cocktail of pills.

Also notice that rapid onset diseases only tend to flourish in populations where there is a high transmittance rate. IOW, by not being scared little animals and take at least a minimum of precautions, humans have proabably helped, in an evolutionary sense, this rapid onset type to come into existence.

So, rational thinking would be best, because then people would be careful and reduce the transmisson rate. But people are too stupid for that apparently, and can, literally, in this case, only be protected by fear.

Originally posted by Nygdan

This is a public health matter, not a poltico-socio one.

Even so, it's being set up to be handled politically. "Blaming the victims" for having symptoms of epidemic infectious disease is leading us back to Eugenics programs and legislation.

Not long ago, US Eugenics laws targeted the "unfit" for sterilization, incarceration and "mercy killing."

Looks like we're on the road back to dusting off the old Eugenics laws and putting them back on the books.

People weren't scared. They started to engage in dangerous behaviours, the disease started to spread agian, hell people are apparently even trying to get the disease, these 'bug chaser' idiots. So now the infection rate goes back up and people are dying.

Also notice that rapid onset diseases only tend to flourish in populations where there is a high transmittance rate. ....But people are too stupid for that apparently, and can, literally, in this case, only be protected by fear.

IMO - there's a whole lot more to the story of AIDS evolution and transmission than the sex practices of minority populations.

...Yes, protected sex is necessary - but so is full public disclosure and other public health measures.



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