[Alter Kaker]

I just said to my husband last night that the power behind the AIDS lobby was appalling. AIDS is a completely avoidable disease. I have worked in cancer detection for 34 years.

Most diseases are completely avoidable. Influenza? Avoid others. Heart disease? Eat right and exercise. Lung cancer? Don't smoke or breath asbestos. The common cold? Wash your hands.

Don't want cholera? You can completely avoid it by not drinking tainted water.

Don't want tetanus? Completely avoid it by avoiding deep punctures.

I keep on seeing this "completely avoidable" talking point, but it's meaningless. There isn't a communicable disease on the planet that isn't completely avoidable.

[secret garden]

Heart disease doesn’t fit your scheme since it is not a communicable disease at all.

[goodwithagun]

I understand your point. The thing is, I see AIDS as a moral issue. It is mainly spread through sex and tainted drug needles. If you keep sex within a monogamous marriage and don't do drugs, you won't get AIDS. The flu kills more people a year than AIDS. Why isn't there the push for a cure for the flu?

[originalbuckeye]

Cancer is not avoidable. AIDS is avoidable. Can’t change the truth. There are things a person can do to try to lower their possibility of getting cancer. But it is not avoidable. In my work I have seen many cases of lung cancer with no history of smoking. AIDS is completely avoidable.

[SouthTexas]

Don't want cholera? You can completely avoid it by not drinking tainted water.

And if you have no other water to drink?

Not much of a problem in this country, other than those cases carried across the southern border.

[hinckley buzzard]

Nice try AK but your analogies don't hold water. In virtually all cases now, to get HIV/AIDS requires going out of your way to engage in deliberate voluntary well-identified behaviors, and most likely on a repetitive basis. It just doesn't compare to stepping on a rusty nail or breathing the air on an airliner during a long flight.