not to worry... the next strain will prolly have TEETH and just eat them alive!!!No surprise that AIDS is spreading so quickly.
Holtz JeffersonRepublic.com
God has a way of showing who's still in charge, doesn't he?
And if that number of partners is in the hundreds, and if those hundreds had unprotected anal sex with other hundres, there is one HELL of a problem now, isn't there?
That will, at least, slow down the spread of the disease.
and ....(the person infected) may have contracted the virus in October when he engaged in unprotected anal sex with multiple partners while using crystal methamphetamine
Nope, nothing to see here. AIDS is spread by lack of funding.
At least the article mentioned how people catch it, rather than portraying AIDS as some bolt from the blue. I guess I should take my victories where I find them.
not to worry... the next strain will prolly have TEETH and just eat them alive!!!"The infected man, gay and in his 40's, tested negative for H.I.V. in May 2003, then tested positive last December, health officials said. Investigators believe he may have contracted the virus in October when he engaged in unprotected anal sex with multiple partners while using crystal methamphetamine. By last month, it was clear that three of the four classes of anti-retroviral drugs used against H.I.V. were not working in this case, and the man showed signs of AIDS, including rapid weight loss, a high level of the virus in his bloodstream, and a depleted supply of crucial immune system cells."
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"AIDS experts and public health officials have long maintained that since the development of anti-retroviral drugs in the 1990's, people have developed a false sense that AIDS no longer poses a significant threat, leading to a rise in unprotected sex. Clear evidence of the trend has been seen in the growing number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis, chlamydia, and lymphogranuloma."
Yeah they insist on being irresponsible! The drugs looked like they could continue that behavior.
"In 2003, a survey by New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found that more than half of city residents with multiple recent sexual partners had not been tested for H.I.V. in the previous 18 months, and 40 percent said that they had not used condoms the last time they had sex. At the time, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city health commissioner, attributed the results to "H.I.V. precaution burnout."
HIV precaution burnout?
Geesh!
People do not fear this disease like they should. I personally have never known anyone (that I know of) that has this disease. So many of my female friends have unprotected sex under the assumption that if the guy is nice, he must not have VD or Aids. Sad grown women act that way and are so incredibly stupid.
"he engaged in unprotected anal sex with multiple partners while using crystal methamphetamine."
Remember the Abner Louima case?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/705588/posts
I always wondered if Louima had been having anal sex before he was arrested that night.
And while engaging in anal sex, whether he was taking some kind of drug to "enhance" the experience.
And whether that drug made him oblivious to the damage being done to him by his partner(s).
Then after he's arrested, he sobers up in jail, and blames the damage on the cops.
And he makes millions from the lawsuit.
Tammy Bruce, on the radio today, more or less explicitly blamed gay men and IV drug users for *cultivating* exactly this kind of new strain.
Certainly this was a predictable (and predicted) outcome. The criminal law attributes intention to those who willfully disregard the probable consequences of their behavior. If we don't, why don't we?
Thag wants to be sure he understands the context here. This guy, whoever he is (and won't be for long) has unprotected anal sex with "many" (read hundreds)anonymous men, catches a new strain of this disease (oh yeah, almost forgot...while wacked out on crystal meth) and it's a public health crisis that we're all s'posed to pay for?
I think my Libertarian friends are on the money...you want to live your life, that's fine...just don't expect the rest of us to have to pay for it. Same goes for knuckleheads who don't want to wear motorcycle helmets...scramble your brain all you want, but don't expect me to pay for it.
Love,
Thag