It means you start mumbling random R.E.M. lyrics in your sleep. Bleh.
Posted on 06/05/2011 10:00:37 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
What does “functionally cured” mean?
He still looks sickly.
“HIV advocacy”?
I am happy that science is making advances, but “HIV advocacy?” They make it sound like a badge of honor.
It means you start mumbling random R.E.M. lyrics in your sleep. Bleh.
Who is going to pay for this? AIDS is not exactly a rich man’s disease.
The gay dream: You can still be gay and promiscuous as hell and not die of AIDS.
Not that other gross things won’t kill you, but not AIDS.
Now we just have to take 1% of the people on the planet and steal their bone marrow!
AIDS “research” has already topped $50 billion and no cure. While out of political correctness, siphoning off money for research for incurable diseases such as cancer.
And WTF is “functionally cured”?? Is this another MSM liberal description such as “unexpectedly”?
read the comments. Our society is sick.
Now we just have to take 1% of the people on the planet and steal their bone marrow!
Now we just have to take 1% of the people on the planet and steal their bone marrow!
Junk Science+Political Correctness+Billion$$$$$$$$ = HIV/AIDS panic.
Does anybody even take this seriouisly anymore? Even the WHO has pretty much said, “uh .... nevermind”.
LoL
What about Magic Johnson? He refused the traditional treatments and from what I understand... is free of the disease now.
Well, this is good news for the San Fran bath houses. Yea.
Functionally cured means that the guy is not showing a terribly weak immune system, which is the signal of the onset of AIDS (low count of white blood cells). The real beef with the so-called cure however, is the issue of a person’s own immune system rejecting a bone marrow transplant. This means that even with the figure of 1% of the Earth’s population being resistant to the effects of AIDS, you have even fewer people than that as the person to whom they donate bone marrow is donated is anything but guaranteed to accept the bone marrow without getting sick from rejection by his/her own immune system.
“And he will now probably never have any problems with HIV,”
Even if he goes out “bare-backing” and contracts it, again?
That's 1% of the Caucasians.
(Hmmmmmmm, I wonder how $much I could for mine?)
read the comments. Our society is sick.
Totally agree. The old saying goes that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Well make that pound a ton in the case of AIDS, even this “cure” would only work for a minute sliver of those infected with HIV. Because first, you have a shrinking European minority, compounded with the fact that not everyone’s body can accept the bone marrow without rejection.
I think the reason he's alive today is because he refused the treatments, which are incredibly toxic.
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