I recall them saying we’d all be dead by now.
Some jokes write themselves....
People have been saying this for years. More people die of much easier preventable things like malaria, diarrea and other water borne diseases than any other disease.
Simple access to clean water and soap (not to mention extremely basic healthcare) would reduce worldwide death and suffering tenfold.
How to PRevent AIDS:
1. Sit on your butt.
2. Keep your pants on and your zipper up.
3. Don’t do drugs.
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How many lives have been lost while the PC war on AIDS has sucked up most of the money and research?
Liberalism kills!
2. Decades ago, the AIDS lobby believed that the best political strategy to garner rich funding would be to convince middle america that their happy,ruddy-cheeked kids on the football team or cheer-leader squad that they'd get it. Otherwise, the reasoning went, the middle-class is never going to give us Butt Pirates the funding we really need.
So they tried to convince everyone straight that they were (are) at risk. Well, the risk isn't zero, but if you are mostly "normal", you are mostly OK.
Mostly, AIDS victims have implicity CHOSEN to get it, and in a smaller number of twisted cases have *avowedly* chosen to do so.
AIDS money (from government, not private) should go towards cancer and Alzheimer’s/dementia. Toward diseases which are primarily contracted ‘innocently’ where the victim could not easily prevent contracting the disease.
Maybe Kofi Annan could administer it. He must need something to do.
Problems like malnutrition, pneumonia and malaria kill more children in Africa than AIDS.Also lack of clean drinking water. Oh, and Moslems. Don't forget, the leading cause of death in Africa after natural causes is Islam. Ethiopia and Puntland are both under attack, and the Moslem terrorists are launching a major offensive in Somalia.