[Dr. Eckleburg]

The rationalizations surrounding AIDS are baffling and disheartening.

The latest answer why black Africa is "killing itself" is apparently now the "misreporting of actual cases." All those millions of deaths, from what?

Something has dropped life expectancy from 70 to 45 in a decade. In the last 25 years, have Africans suddenly stopped a particuar practice or started some habit, unknown before 1976? What is the differential that explains why almost 50 percent of the continent will die off in the next 10 years? Not having enough proper test kits does not explain the ungodly surge in deaths.

Are these numbers not so staggering that you feel compelled to understand them better, as a human being?

Remember, my question about the black and white junkies pertains only to the U.S. We have all means of diagnostic testing available here. What's your explanation for the statistical discrepancy between control groups of black and white junkies?

It's a question worthy of consideration. Any of us with time enough to debate eschatology on the internet probably has the time to do a little reading on this subject...from a variety of sources.

It's all about the numbers.

[xzins]

Something has dropped life expectancy from 70 to 45 in a decade.

Can I suggest starvation in Somalia, murder in Sudan (and many places), and war elsewhere as a question that I want answered? Are these deaths figured into the expectancy statistics?

Just a question.

[George W. Bush]

Remember, my question about the black and white junkies pertains only to the U.S. We have all means of diagnostic testing available here. What's your explanation for the statistical discrepancy between control groups of black and white junkies?

Because, unlike you, I don't believe there is a substantial statistical sample large enough to establish the "fact" that a black junkie is 14 times more likely to contract AIDS-like illness.

Surely, you don't actually believe this?