Posted on 02/22/2005 5:17:19 AM PST by Lindykim
New AIDS Strain? Of Course.
Gay activists are already protesting the announcement of the appearance of a new and deadly strain of the AIDS virus. In reporting the story, the The New York Times wondered aloud about the protests (e.g., who could protest a scientific announcement?) but then went on to justify it: announcing the new strain apparently might call attention to the continued reckless behavior of the gay community, and its continued intimidation of public health officials â€" as in this protest. Of course the Times didn't quite put it this way, but that was its meaning.
This protest is a deadly analogue to the hysteria at Harvard where feminist ideologues have successfully brought the Harvard presidency to its knees and made it impossible to conduct a serious discussion about women's opportunities in science. Unfortunately, the intimdations by gay activists of public health officials have led to something more serious than the dumbing down of a once great intellectual institution like Harvard. The mindless political attacks by the gay left on any public health official uttering the truth has led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of gay males in the 25 years of the epidemic.
As I have written in many texts (Radical Son, The Politics of Bad Faith, Left Illusions) the public health profession, including the leading gay doctors in this field, had already said in 1983 that it would take a decade to develop a vaccine (they were wrong) and that there might never be a cure for the disease.
Therefore, the only way to stop the epidemic and save lives was to conduct a massive campaign against promiscuous anal sex, the primary cause of the epidemic from the beginning (Note: the primary cause of the epidemic -- that is the exponential increase in AIDS cases. Gay leaders blocked this path and insisted that public health officials and in effect the entire nation avert their eyes from the cause of the epidemic, pretend HIV was an "equal opportunity virus" (it was not), and that vague "education" programs and condoms could halt its spread.
Of course there are going to be new strains of the virus. It mutates. It will find a way to defeat the medical silver bullets that are aimed in its direction. This is a standard lesson from the medical past. When it was introduced, penicillin was a cure for syphilis. Has syphilis disappeared? On the contrary, new strains have developed and new epidemics have followed in their wake. QED. As both the New York Times and the leftwing gay leadership have shown, the price of political correctness can be death.
posted by Horowitz @ 6:22 PM
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Tell that to the nut who fired a few of his employees for smoking at home. The risk of serious illness from active smoking is 25%.
The risk of serious illness from deviant and pervert behavior is close to 100%.
It didn't take me long to choose a strategy in dealing with Gay propaganda: Ignore it completely.
AIDS risk to me? Zero.
I do sit up and take notice whenever the perverts try to reach again into my checkbook.
AIDS is not a disease, but a civil rights status.
A totally preventable disease yet I guess the homosexual community would rather enjoy their "pleasure" and let the rest of the world figure out how to save them. And the homosexuals will continue to try to force their lifestyle into our schools and try to convince our children that the homosexual lifestyle should be celebrated. Insanity.
"As I have written in many texts...."
I like David Horowitz a lot, and I know I am quibbling, but isn't calling his books "texts" just a tad pretentious?
"the only way to stop the epidemic and save lives was to conduct a massive campaign against promiscuous anal sex"
And yet, the ad champaigns in my area would never give you a clue that AIDS is anything but a heterosexual diease.
The real problem is that it used to be $100,000 for a year or two, then $50,000 for a six months of hospice, then a $10,000 funeral. That's barely affordable but not out of the ballpark for society. Now it's $25,000 a year in drugs indefinitely, plus hospitalization costs off and on, plus the $250,000 in critical care costs as the patient gets closer to death. This is not affordable in the long run, as fewer healthies will have to more and more sickies on top of the demographics problems in SS and medicare. In short, their venal and selfish behavior is not sustainable.
AIDS/HIV is certainly scary, but not being gay or being promiscuous certainly cuts down the risk. If saying that isn't PC, that's too bad. However, there's plenty to fear from the flu, especially the bird flu which kills something like 80% of those who contract it.
A diversionary propaganda technique I see a lot in these leftist screeds. First you open with a sensible question then you ignore it and get on with the sophistry. It gives the author, and those who want to believe what he's saying, that warm and fuzzy feeling that they've been fair and intellectual about it all.
Obviously your info is much ore up-to-date and accurate than mine.
Would you tell me where yours came from?
Back in the last milennium the MSM had a field day with the case of a Nun who got HIV. Of course that was before CDC secured the national supply from junkies selling blood to pay for their drug habits. But the liberal medical ethics community's first move was to protect gays from 'persecution' and prejudice, not to fight the disease.
Signs of a disattached-from-reality society:
smoking = public enemy number one
AIDs/HIV/STDs virtually ignored
The libertines slogan: Sex & Dugs A Go-Go
snip....AIDs is....a civil rights issue
Rephrased: The "right to die"
The Chicago Sun-Times did an article on Sunday regarding the alarming increase of meth addiction in Boys' Town (no, not the Spencer Tracy "Boys Town"). Talk about double jeopardy - dirty syringes AND promiscuous gay sex.
If/when Avian flu gets out of the Asian bird box, nobody will care at all what happens to gay men. They'll just die. No more money for drug cocktails (it will all go to treating flu patients), no more education (who would send their kids to school to catch it?) no more meetings to strategize (who would go to a meeting and catch it?) no more clinics (all filled with flu patients), the list goes on and on.
Avian flu would overwhelm the dollars, the docs, and the facilities. HIV+ gay men would all just...fall by the wayside.
No judgement either way, here, just the facts.
They are WAGs. The problem with surviving AIDS is that it costs more and provides the opportunity for the patients to continue spreading the disease. Not all do, but enough do to fundamentally change the epidemiology. Considering that, my guesses are probably underestimates.
There is a lot of evil in American culture today, and one of the greatest of them is the instructing of children into the sodomite subculture. Children are being sentenced to certain misery, dysfunction, disease, and perhaps even death. If that isn't evil, then nothing is.
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