Posted on 07/31/2006 4:57:26 PM PDT by Graybeard58
"What is the cost of dying of natural causes after raising a family, drinking moderately, eating red meat off the grill on Saturday, and being a Cubs fan?"
EArly exit due to a broken heart. Cub fans die cheap, screaming the phrase "Just wait'll next year!"
BTW, do you know what they say is the worst thing about dying of AIDS?
The subject is public funding. Unless there is specific advocacy by a convincing group of interested people, the money usually goes to where it should do the most good.
I can't speak for private efforts.
No, what?
Leaving your friends behind.
Good one.
Bump
Aids is not a disease.
Aids is a RESULT.
Aids is 99.999999% preventable, guaranteed.
These are the most common ways that HIV is transmitted from one person to another:
NUMBER 1 - by having sex (anal, vaginal, or oral) with an HIV-infected person;
This is by far the most prevelant way AIDS is spread.
NUMBER 2 - by sharing needles or injection equipment with an injection drug user who is infected with HIV;
NUMBER 3 - from HIV-infected women to their babies before or during birth, or through breast-feeding after birth.
Since Number 3 can only occur if the woman is HIV positive, that means she did it by #1 or #2.
HIV also can be transmitted through receipt of infected blood or blood clotting factors. However, since 1985, all donated blood in the United States has been tested for HIV. Therefore, the risk of infection through transfusion of blood or blood products is extremely low. The U.S. blood supply is considered to be among the safest in the world.
If every person in the US were tested, starting in 1985, and all AIDS carriers remained monogomaous and didn't do needle drugs, there would be no AIDS cases in the US.
Why are we spending billions of dollars per year on a totally preventable disease? Because Homosexuals want their lifestyle validated.
I've heard the first symptom is a pounding in the butt.
I've said this for a long time, this is what the gay marriage issue is really about. Medical benefits for the infected gay partner.
This is why I have nothing to do with the AARP. Why would I spend a farthing on a membership to an association that attacks my political choices and beliefs?
(And, I really don't think that their insurances and other "benefits" are anything special.)
Also, and changing subjects, many other posters correctly realize that many (but not all) AIDS cases are self inflicted (I.V. needle sharing and homosexual "lifestyle").
Although every HIV case is a tragedy, A cynic might say that rather than being "victims", many of those afflicted with AIDS are "volunteers".
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There are victims to be sure. Babies born with it as a result of having a parent who is infected. Those who unknowingly have sex with one who is infected and blood transfusions donated by the infected.
Are there any other victims?
It would seem that all who have it got it from another, either directly or indirectly, whose life style included homosexual sex or needle sharing.
I agree completely!
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Hi, Jocelyn, we recall your pithy statement as the Clintonoid Surgeon- General when you announced that the life of a fiftyish white guy with heart disease was worth less than that of a thirtyish drug addict in the gutter. Nice work. Now that AIDS carriers are living routinely into their fifties and beyond, sucking up free antidepressants, antiretrovirals, and disablility checks (among even more unsavory commodities,) while contributing nothing of lasting worth, your smug certitudes ring even more hollow.
The Nazi Party was on sound actuarial footing when they decided to eliminate "useless eaters" from the public dole.
Speak for yourself, Bruce. Any rational "chosen lifestyle" will entail no greater risk of AIDS than of being hit by lightning, and will not have to be "modified."
It's worse in Africa - a very small percentage of the money given to AIDS care could save millions of people.
Liberals care about drug addicts and "people who have sex with anything that moves" more than any other medical group. It's obvious when you follow the money ...
I think it is important to point out that the HIV/AIDS research is providing benefits in other areas as well. Hepatitis C for one. There are millions infected with HepC and the treatment protocols are related to those used to treat HIV.
My town banned smoking in all bars.
Many subsequently went out of business.
The gay bars, however, are thriving.
Now they can negotiate the transfer of their STD's without being endangered by second hand smoke.
How Special.
Now I know, thank you. So I guess it's a silent "p".
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