[CzarNicky]

They won't live forever they are just delaying the inevitable and spreading it around more as they do so. AIDS has a nasty way of becoming drug resistant after a while.

[theFIRMbss]

>They won't live forever they are just delaying the inevitable and spreading it around more as they do so

If carriers just
infect one person per year,
extending their life

by a few more years
can have profound effects on
total infections. *

(In this small program,
try changing the "lifeSpan" to
15, up from 10 . . .)


--------------------------------------
program

let totalInfections = 100     ! start total carriers
let infectRate = 1             ! spread rate (does anyone
                        ! have real numbers?)
let lifeSpan = 10         ! years lived after diagnosis

for i=1 to lifeSpan

    let totalInfections = totalInfections + (totalInfections * infectRate)

    print "total carriers after", i, "years:", totalInfections
end for

end program