Jimmy Buffet cares about AIDS.
The issue with AIDS is that we can’t cure a virus, we have never been able to. HIV is a virus, so there isn’t anything we can do about it. It’s meaningless to try and find a cure for HIV, it’s wasted money.
HIV only became a big deal because progressives, as always, turned to their favorite tactic of race baiting the fuck out of everybody and claiming if the government didn’t turn over a big check and anybody who didn’t consider AIDS the be all end all medical issue of all time hated black and gay people. And then, as always, they ignored all medical information pointing out why the concept of curing a virus was a pipe dream.
Thankfully people don’t really fall for progressive race baiting on that level and their nonsense is dismissed quickly.
Though I’m sure they’ll drag race back into the issue and try to waste more cash.
Here is a hint, when we can figure out how to cure the flu and the common cold then it will be time to start looking at viruses that mutate faster ala AIDS, till then it’s just posturing and bullshit.
It doesn’t matter if he dies or not. There are plenty of organizations out there that are all for freedom of information and transparency. So even if one website is wiped out, there will be plenty of replacements.
lets hope so
i bet aids is curable, and pharmaceutical companies are just raping AIDS victims for $$$
sex + disease = $$$
No, it’s not. HIV is a virus, we can’t cure virus issues. They mutate far to rapidly for us to come up with a miracle pill that will remove it. It doesn’t matter if it’s HIV, herpes, the common cold, the flu, we can’t do anything about it other than treat the symptoms and hope for the best.
Wait, what?
So AIDS shouldn’t be taken seriously?
And the guys in charge did legitimately care about the black and gay communities, even if they showed it in no way whatsoever?
And this was all a devious plot by “progressives” (who are they, by the way?) solely to con everybody into doing a lot of lab work for nothing? And to what end?
I’m just trying to piece all this together. I will be nice and say that it is slightly far-fetched.
AIDS comes from the HIV virus, we can’t cure viral infections, never have been able to. And there are plenty of other viral infections that kill far more people a year than AIDS does.
So AIDS, and HIV, are largely a non issue. It’s a virus so we can’t cure it, and on the long list of viruses we should care about it isn’t even up there.
However the progressive movement exists off race baiting and calling everybody else racist. So many liberals have caused money to be thrown at HIV research and if they don’t get the cash, scream up and down that it’s due to people hating black people or gays, that’s just the tactics of the movement.
It wasn’t a “plot” it’s just a way to get votes, stand on a soap box, and race bait… which is pretty much what progressives do.
That’s… terribly ignorant. Just because a “cure” in the classic sense does not exist for most viral infections doesn’t mean a vaccine doesn’t exist. There’s a huge difference between the mechanism of a vaccine vs a “cure” and many viral infections have vaccines that have nearly eradicate the diseases in developed countries. Take a look at rabies, hepatitis, and polio vaccines for example. All diseases that have plagued society for millennia but are completely non-issues nowadays. HIV has spread like wildfire in the few short decades it has existed and is one of the few widespread diseases nowadays that is invariably fatal if left untreated. Add in the fact that it is potentially preventable with huge strides made in vaccine development in the last ten years and I don’t see how it’s a non-issue at all. You realize it doesn’t kill as many people in the US nowadays because a lot of money was put in to the development of cheaper antiviral drugs, testing techniques, and public awareness to combat the progression of AIDS and spread of the virus.
Holy shit! Glenn Beck joined SRK!
Purely out of compassion and at utterly no advantage to myself whatever, I am going to recommend that you stop talking now.
I have to admit the last part of that post was very Glenn Beckish. However, I’m under the impression that the real Beck is nowhere near as batshit insane as he allows people to think he is. He’s what Rsigley would be if sig got into political radio and trolled for millions.
A vaccine is not a cure, I attacked the concept of a CURE for AIDS, which there is not, and for obvious reasons, ie we can’t cure viral infections. And then pointed out that money is sent to “cure for aids” rather as a political stunt due to political interest groups.
It’s also not as big of a killer, and it’s entirely avoidable. Were it not for the fact that the progressive wing of the Democratic party couldn’t drag out votes from certain groups, we wouldn’t be talking about it today. But it’s a great political issue so it’s used and dragged out.
So if you want to side with the bigots and act like HIV is some sort of holocaust, fine, have at. But it’s wrong.
If, and this is a huge if, we are going to find a way to cure a virus in our lifetime, it’s not going to come from AIDS research on HIV, it’s going to come from influenza research, which is where the real meat and bones of virus research is. But that’s avoided, the Repubs don’t care, and the Dems are buy placating racial games. So it’s dead in the water.
And FYI, where I work, combating HIV is one of the primary goals, it’s a mess. And the blame for it lands flat on the left and their politics.
Holy fuck dude, you’re an imbecile.
HIV/Aids ain’t going anywhere. If it IS possible to kill it, you would have to do it before symptoms occur, like with rabies. Problem is there are no symptoms until it’s too late. By the time antibodies show up, it’s already too late. Since people don’t show up looking for treatment within hours after shooting up with a shared needle or unprotected sex with a stranger, nothing can be done. I believe there’s a cure (a battery of the very drugs used to slow down the virus in people who developed aids might do it)…but you’ve got to treat EVERYONE on a just-in-case basis. Once it actually shows up, just as with rabies, there’s no hope.
In this thread, people unable to come up with a legit argument against acerbic. You guys really so blind that you don’t see how AIDS has turned into a huge race thing by the left? Let’s also not forget that AIDS treatment has come a REALLY long way in just a couple of decades. AIDS went from a death sentence to a very treatable condition similar to diabetes in just a couple of years, what other illness can we say that about? (answer: none) So idiots implying we aren’t doing enough for AIDS don’t understand science or medicine and how far we came with AIDS treatment in such little time. Just like acerbic said, there is no CURE for AIDS and there won’t be any time soon.
and you and acerbic are just blind bats for pretty much ignoring 90% what was said in Seta’s post. score one for selective reading!
I was reading the earlier posts in this thread and it’s true, politics isn’t as easy to understand as you might be lead to believe.
Why do I need to address it? A) We ARE researching AIDS vaccines B) Vaccines aren’t cures. The implication that we are doing nothing to treat AIDS is beyond ridiculous and stupid as we have come farther and faster with AIDS treatment than with almost every other disease in history. I can’t think of any other illness that went from a death sentence to very manageable in such a short time.
In related news, it was recently discovered how HIV manages to avoid detection by white blood cells. They have known for a long time that HIV thrives by going undetected, or unattacked by the bodies white blood cells, but they have never known the mechanism it uses to do this.
They recently discovered the way it manipulates the cells machinery to block detection.
So score one for research.
And as far as the argument that HIV is not a serious issue because it is not immediately deadly, the opposite is true. HIV is a serious issue because it ultimately terminal, but the fact that it go can undetected and carried for so long leads to the carries having years of opportunity to spread it unknowingly, and that continues on exponentially as each new person contracts it.
Can you think of any other disease that has the potential to be such a large problem? Just like BrentoBox said, it sits and can go undetected for a long time. Especially with the way our culture is going ( jersey shore ) people are more likely to spread that shit. Anything that kills people is a big deal, I dont give a fuck if its “left wing” funding tactics to bring it up alot. If I went through the list of things that conservatives use to garner attention, you would realise that your just being ridiculous and thinking liberals are the only ones who do bull shit like that.
Oh and acerbic did you really just complain and blame the left for making you work on HIV research? Its not anyones fault be happy that your doing something to help your fellow man, stop spouting off random facts and half ass logic about liberals.
Did yall know that Liberalism and Atheism are linked to intelligence, who would have thought.