"Instead of quarantining the early cases and controlling the spread, we got a very expensive industry that feeds off 5 million sick people"
I've been looking for hard statistics all day, it seems, and they are very- suspiciously- difficult to find. I finally emailed the National Center for Health Statistics
for their numbers on AIDS/HIV deaths and #'s of new cases reported per year, going back to 1981. We'll see ...
Just to get a taste of what I'm saying, I did see bits of stats, from them. And here they are:
For 2002, 14,095 total deaths from AIDS/HIV in US (actually, it just said, "AIDS"), which works out to around a whopping less than 1% of our population.
And for 2003, there were 44,232 new cases reported (via the medical community)- "new cases" not deaths, as we're treating the disease differently, now. Again, a very small percentage of the US population (less than 1 %).
Where did you get that figure of 5 million sick people-
from the "advocates" or from the researchers?
Re, "Where did you get that figure of 5 million sick people-
from the "advocates" or from the researchers?" I don't remember. I have had it in my mind for several years. Here's another stat for you. the AIDS cocktail costs $1800/mo. We have 500,000 Haitian refugees here in Florida and a lot of them come to get the drug treatment. We have a related drug resistant TB epidemic. (12000 cases a year).
The CDC says they are watching.