New AIDS nightmare looms for gay men: study

AFP ^ | 8/18/06

[The Blitherer]

Romans 1:27

In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Hey, I'm not the one who said it.

[SMARTY]

We are always reminded that lung cancer from smoking is a totally avoidable - preventable disease. Just don't smoke. Well, how about a little cooperation from the gay community before they bring the bill to my doorstep for a cure? No one subsidizes my lifestyle, and I don't do anything to need it either! I didn't go to the party, why do I have to pay for the party?

[Wuli]

The rise in the incident rate is an occurance that would be expected in any infectious epidemic, when those most likely infected are falsely led to believe that (1)infection is not really so likely and (2)infection may not lead to disease and (3)disease may not lead to death; which are all attitudes that have found more believers with the younger generations of sexually active gay men. Better medical treatments have led to greater survivability without cures and led to a false sense of health security in risky behavior.

In a sad but true and perverse sort of way, there would be fewer new infections if more infections were not survivable by treatment and led more expeditiously to a fatal illness.

If the inevitablity of a fatality is more immediate and more apparent, and not so easily deferred, that reality has a desireable affect on people's behaviors, particularly when their own choices can prevent the adverse consequences.

[pissant]

Bummer. There is a 100% foolproof way to not get AIDS. Quit buggering each other.

[The_Reader_David]

No choice: my employer takes money out of my pay (and being self-employed as a pure mathematician is a non-starter). It's foolish to refuse the marginally free health care services that result, but I'd rather not have folks with an almost studied disregard for their own health in my rating pool.

[Old Professer]

Generations of gay men are at risk?

[madison10]

What a concept: you reap what you sow.

[Tired of Taxes]

Ronald Valdiserri, deputy director of the CDC's National Center for HIV, said the surge in infections among gay men could partly be explained by the growing use of methamphetamines, a drug that enhances sexual appetites and can drive users into risky sex.

It's just driving them into it. As if they have no control over the actions. It's the pill's fault. And the pill just jumps into their mouths.

[Old Professer]

Who do pure mathematicians work for?

Fallen mathematicians?

[Mr. Lucky]

Who do yoy think picks up the tab for those sodomists whose medical bills are submitted to public welfare agencies?

[longtermmemmory]

What happened to "living with aids"?

Does anyone know the current lifespan of a person who tests positive? Is it still 8 years?

[bigfootbob]

I guess I'm hard hearted too. Folks who test positive to HIV/AIDS or Hep C need to be quarantined in a fashion they won't be able to spread their disease to the innocent until they are cured or made noninfectious.

I'm suffering from a 35 year infection of HCV from a blood transfusion. 33 years of the time, I didn't know I had the virus!

I wasn't a drug abuser or butt buddy so my family doctor never checked me for those "conditions." Now, I'm close to end stage liver disease and have had to endure interferon therapy, twice to kill the HCV, but the damage is done.

I have nothing but contempt for folks who mollycoddle this issue. You don't really want to know what I think about the really weird phenomenon of "Bug Chasers", the FREAKS that get turned on trying to get infected.

[traditional1]

Sadly, lessons are sometimes learned only the hard way (no pun intended)....

If you chose to take your chances, you chose to suffer the consequences of the risk you take.

Only in the mind of Liberals are all the faggots considered "victims", where their lack of responsibility is supposed to be the burden on others to fund help for them.

Same is true in ALL cases of irresponsible behior from criminal elements: the TAXPAYER has to foot the bill for their idiocy.

[stompk]

"Jeez, it's almost as if the wages of sin is death."

ding ding ding

[SampleMan]

Why shouldn't insurance companies factor risk factor for AIDS into the premium? They do for everything else.

[upchuck]

The "cure" for AIDS is to do nothing.

People make a conscious decision to put themselves in a position (pun very much intended :) where they may become infected. Thus, AIDS is a voluntary disease.

If left to its own devices, it will eventually die out.

Some may try and shoot holes in this idea by bringing up smoking and saying that means cancer is also a voluntary disease. Only partially true. There are many forms of cancer that are NOT caused by smoking. The same cannot be said for AIDS.

[Gay State Conservative]

Why don't these amoral misfits just shoot themselves in the head.It would save those of us who subsidize the price of their treatment many,many billions of dollars...money that could be spent "for the children".

[Truth-The Anti Spin]

Why shouldn't insurance companies factor risk factor for AIDS into the premium? They do for everything else.

Because 'gay and/or promiscuous' don't show up on a blood test.

[Centurion2000]

Jeez, it's almost as if the wages of sin is death.

Who would have thought that could ever happen?

[PeterPrinciple]

I remember a pastors sermon in which he said he could prophesy. He said the essence of old testament prophecy was that "if you continue doing what you are doing, something bad is going to happen to you". In that light, he said we should all be doing more prophesying today.

Well, here goes........If the homersexuals continue to do what they are doing, something bad is going to happen to them.