[cake_crumb]

"But why treat AIDS differently on FR than lung cancer, heart disease, or, frankly, mesothelioma (a nearly 100% preventable disease that you can avoid by simply not inhaling asbestos fibers)?"

At LAST, you ask an INTELLIGENT question! At LAST!

I don't know the answer to why AIDS gets so much more attention and funding and political capital than far more virulent and easily communicable diseases.

If you ever find out why AIDS is so much more important, let us all know.

[Alter Kaker]

I don't know the answer to why AIDS gets so much more attention and funding and political capital than far more virulent and easily communicable diseases.

The diseases I mentioned were mesothelioma, lung cancer, and heart disease. Which of those, exactly, is far more virulent and easily communicable than HIV/AIDS?