Staggering AIDS Report From U.N.

Wired ^ | 2 jul 02 | Jordan Lite

[white trash redneck]

NEW YORK -- The AIDS epidemic is not close to reaching its peak, the United Nations says in a devastating report released Tuesday.

The epidemic has reached proportions once considered impossible in the world's most affected countries and is spreading at alarming rates elsewhere. The crisis "now outstrips even the worst-case scenarios" projected by epidemiologists tracking the deadliest disease in human history, the report says.

[Osinski]

Hmmm. If one follows your logic (convoluted and anal as it is) the 39% of adults in Africa must be homosexual. This sure flies in the face of statisics. But you know better.

[narses]

"It's a behavior problem."

So is cigarette smoking. We have reduced that "behavior problem" by warning people about the hazards of the "behavior" and taxing the weed itself. How about graphic warnings about IV drugs and promiscuity coupled with taxes on those behaviors?

[Osinski]

The great majority of AIDS cases, as well as the galloping rates of new infection, are in the third world where transmission is overwhelmingly heterosexual.

Sure seems handy to have all those pesky indiginous people dying of disease and starvation and tribe warfare in a county rich with natural resources.

[Osinski]

Does this mean that South Africa will be depopulated and open for colonization around 2025 ??

Concise and to the point.

[laredo44]

It's ALL baloney. Read two books: "BIAS" by Bernard Goldberg and "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS" by Michael Fumento.

YES, AIDS exists and it is B-A-D but unless you're having unprotected sex with homosexuals, bisexuals, and/or especially IV DRUG USERS...the odds on catching the virus are extremely remote. This does not hold true for 3rd world countries. Mainly because they don't have our medical expertise and their definitions for the virus are different than ours.

Haven't read "Bias", but found Fumento to be spot on. His late '80s, early '90s analysis and reasoning clearly explained why AIDS would not be spread heterosexually in the United States. At the time, Whoopi and pals were trying to paint the disease as an equal opportunity killer with everyone at risk. Homosexuals nearly wet themselves trying to have his ideas censored. Turns out he was right, they were wrong.

With the U.S. no longer available as a playground for their lies, they've had to move the war on truth elsewhere. Not surprisingly, none in the liberal media have seen fit to circle back and see the extent of the damage to the public trust these lies caused and who was responsible. Unlike the malfeasance at Enron and Worldcom, the liberal press has no interest in holding the AIDS liars accountable so they will feel free to continue to engage in lying to advance their causes.

AIDS is indeed difficult to transmit becuase it requires blood contact of the recipient. Most of us don't draw blood during sex. However, in third world countries, the rates of open sores on the genitals is much higher than here, and their heterosexual transmission rates can be higher than ours.

[ExSoldier]

Well said. And of course 100% correct.

[GregoryFul]

According to the American Spectator, in Africa many diseases are diagnosed as AIDS because of the favorable funding for treatment of this disease over the typical endemic diseases. The figures are corrupt.

[crystalk]

The UN would print anything that might increase transfer of funds away from the worthwhile, to the worthless, areas of the globe.

Certain elements will get/have gotten the Darwin award, flame away as you will.

[crystalk]

I doubt that AIDS alone, narrowly, will be the reason, but some combination of "plagues" which add up to "Paul Kruger's revenge" is likely to return this beautiful land to the descendants (aka Afrikaners or Boers) of those who first settled it, first civilized it, first mixed their blood with it by farming it, and who love it like no other people.

Let this be the first of many lands to be restored to their rightful owners, remember that theft of the land by outbreeding one's neighbor, is still theft.

Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that he shall also reap.

[kinghorse]

It's possibly the most blatant example of agenda forwarding in the guise of news reporting and it's going on daily over at MSNBC.COM. The editors and writers have declared AIDS awareness the paramount issue if a scan of recent articles is any indication. I frequent the American Pravda (apologies to Pravda) known as MSNBC.COM. In fact it's my home page. It's a liberal net rag to be sure, but the content is constantly updated and the crew over there really hustles out the news. And they really seem to be motivated. Could it be because the worker bees at MSNBC.COM have been given editorial license to write about subjects that are of interest to them.

This news outlet appears to have been hijacked by an AIDS activist or 100. In the last week we have seen headlines on AIDS in Africa, AIDS cure in five years, AIDS in unaware young men and today we get a double dose of agenda forwarding in the form of two titles - "HIV expected to skyrocket in youths" and "HIV in U.S. newborns down 80%".

I don't know about you but I don't like being force fed a subject to serve the agenda of a certain group of people who want their problem solved to the exclusion of everyone else. It ok if it's an advocacy group but not an advocacy group cloaked in the aura of legitimate news outlet. Let's see what the AIDS topic du jour will be tomorrow. If past performance is a future indicator, the onslaught should continue.

[Right Wing Professor]

If this is true, it is frightening.

I'm not seeing it. Perhps you can explain what we have to be frightened of?

[mamelukesabre]

I remember way back the mid eighties, they were telling us that by the year 2000, everyone in america will have had a close freind or relative die from aids.

I know of no one that has ever had HIV. In fact, I know of no one that knows anyone that has ever had HIV. I'm not counting movie stars or famous people.

Seems to me like they cried wolf. Now they are doing it again in africa. But you know what? Even if they are right this time, I don't even care.

[Barnacle]

Certain elements will get/have gotten the Darwin award, flame away as you will.

How's this one?

[hove]

"AIDS IS ABOUT SEXUAL DEVIANCY. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT SEXUAL DEVIANCY. But you will never hear this from the left."

A very simple minded statement....but you are entitled. However, if the statement were true, why did HIV/AIDS suddenly appear about 20 years ago? Was there no sexual deviation before then?? Also, are all blood borne diseases "all about sexual deviancy"? Like Hepatitis C. That disease is very similar to HIV/AIDS in its transmission. Oh and one other thing.....are you aware that the vast majority of HIV/AIDS cases in the world are from traditional heterosexual activity? Those folks aren't going to San Francisco bath houses to get it. By the way, you won't hear your statement from me...and I am not from the left.

[crystalk]

Yes, this is true of Palestine-v-Israel as well.

[Mamzelle]

It is quite reasonable to think that these numbers are corrupt...but there is more to the AIDS infections than Africa. Jamaica, for instance, has the highest incidence of new HIV infections in the West. It's believed by health officials there that more than 10% of the pop is infected.

Also, there is Asia, Thailand and, increasingly, China and India. Numbers can't be cooked everywhere.

Perhaps the numbers are cooked in Africa, but there is also a cultural squeamishness about AIDs that would work to keep the numbers lower. I suspect that conditions in Africa are pretty bad where AIDS is concerned