Oh let em have their fun. Surely there'll be a cure soon. {wink wink nudge nudge}
Jeez, it's almost as if the wages of sin is death.
I might agree (cf. also the comments of others about the wages of sin), but only if you keep them out of my health insurance rating pool.
Covering HIV treatments for the sexually wanton makes the rest of us pay monetarily for techonologically delaying the wages of sin for them. While aiding the sick is a Christian duty, being forced to do so through increased insurance premiums is neither Christian (it deprives one of the opportunity to willingly give charitiy in imitation of our Father who 'makes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust', and deprives the recipient of contact with the Gospel when a Christian ministers to him) nor good social policy.
But it's not a "gay" disease, after all...
The rise in the incident rate is an occurance that would be expected in any infectious epidemic, when those most likely infected are falsely led to believe that (1)infection is not really so likely and (2)infection may not lead to disease and (3)disease may not lead to death; which are all attitudes that have found more believers with the younger generations of sexually active gay men. Better medical treatments have led to greater survivability without cures and led to a false sense of health security in risky behavior.
In a sad but true and perverse sort of way, there would be fewer new infections if more infections were not survivable by treatment and led more expeditiously to a fatal illness.
If the inevitablity of a fatality is more immediate and more apparent, and not so easily deferred, that reality has a desireable affect on people's behaviors, particularly when their own choices can prevent the adverse consequences.
Perhaps Darwin will be proven at least partially right on this one.
I believe these figures. They are getting very bold in their public behavior particularly at my health club (which I just quit). They caught two fellows sodomizing in the executive club steam room last month.
Worst part about it is they withheld the info and didn't notify anybody so we had to find out about from the other members when we walked in the next day. So the club put us at risk in an infected area of heat and moisture. They put a 5000 watt search light or something in there with a large window, but not sure if they sterilized the place. I don't care anyways as I wasn't going to believe the club or take the chance anyways and inhale anything alive and floating in the steam.
Oh let em have their fun. Surely there'll be a cure soon. {wink wink nudge nudge}
Let them have their fun. Just cut off all research funds and medicaid/medicare funds for their treatment. It is a disease that can be easily prevented... and affects few people besides queers!