AIDS Is Not a Death Sentence [Calling Dr. Clinton! Calling Dr. Clinton!]

The New York Times ^ | 11/30/2002 (for editions of 12/1/2002) | Dr. William Jefferson Clinton

[GeneD]

He was president? I thought he was a doctor.

[freebilly]

William Jefferson Clinton-- Doing his part to spread HIV since 1982....

[Auntie Mame]

I guess the old "President" moniker isn't working anymore so they're trying the "Doctor" title to see if it gets him more respect.

Hahahahahahahaha!

[GeneD]

Actually, "Dr." was my idea. But the Times did call him by his euphonious full name. Sorta like Marcus Welby, only better.

[Cicero]

Why doesn't he donate that billion he's got stashed away in Swiss bank accounts?

According to his released tax returns, algore donated about $100 to charity from a Vice-Presidential salary and large dividends from Occidental Petroleum, and clinton wasn't exactly known as a big giver to charity either.

How about it bill? Put your money where your mouth is. [Oops!]

[doug from upland]

If only one of those Arkansas crack cocaine hookers could have given him AIDS. Oh well. We can dream.

[Texas Eagle]

Shee-yit. One of the first things Der Squirtmeister did as President was to cut AIDS funding.

As usual, he then turns around and blames others for perpetuating the problem.

Now that I think of it, that is s.o.p. for D-RATS.

[realpatriot71]

You always here this kind of crap from people that have no idea about the exact nature of HIV. One has to be on at least three different medications. All of them scheduled, some medications with meals some at certain times before meals and some at certain times afterw meals. You have to do this to keep on top of a virus that has an extremely frightening mutation rate. If these schedules are not kept, and some research I've read states that as much as a single day is all that is necessary to render some medications ineffective. Unless the third world can prove to me they are educated enough to keep a proper drug regime schedule, I will never support this. In the end, all we'll be doing is giving the virus a selection pressure to evolve against. You want airborn HIV? This might be the route.

[Senator Pardek]

DRUDGE FULL - HERPES STORY

[jimbo123]

Mister Blister giving us a lecture about STD's spread by deviant sexual behavior? Give us a break.

[logan five]

right on....

the drug regimines breed super bugs...
i ran across an article a while back that detailed the "state of the art treatment for tb" ..performed by a similar cadre of cdc-ites..and it was ....yup....send a paid social worker around to each bus stop and WATCH the still ambulatory tb paitent take his meds....it was called intervention therapy i think....in typical hyper inflated do nothing 90's ed-speak......and this was in the US...

generally a generation of people who substitute facts adn explanation for understanding.....

i notice further that no mention is made of just WHY the disease spreads....in the first place....

regarding wjc...i prefer not to waste any more calories on that swineherd....except if i'm called for jury duty...

l5

[attagirl]

This is the real reason why both parties are pushing for prescription drug coverage!

[realpatriot71]

My $.02, and it may not sound very compassionate to some, but natural selection will eventually clean up the bug. It may take quite a few generations, but in Africa, there are prostitutes who should have HIV but are free of the virus. As well as this certain groups in Africa are HIV free because of a mutation in receptor that the HIV ligand binds to. I feel VERY bad or the innocents - the children - who get HIV, but that's about it. Anyone else has HIV because they can't keep a dirty needle out of their arms or cannot keep their peckers to themselves.

[VietVet]

My first comment is, I haven't seen any published study which shows that this regemin of drugs actually extends the average life expectancy of someone diagnosed with HIV. Admittedly, I have only read the popular press, not being a doctor. The last thing I did read, some years ago, stated that while persons on the drugs stayed "healthy" and active longer, their life-expectancy was not significantly increased.

Secondly, Keeping an infected person alive and superficially healthy longer would seem, logically, to *increase* the spread of the disease, not decrease it. The motive to avoid contact through the vectors which transmit the infection would be diminished, and the amount of time the infected person would have to pass on the virus would be increased.

Thirdly, this particular disease is spread almost exclusively by careless and irresponsible personal behavior. Why then should I consider it to be my responsibility to fund treatment through my taxes?

Finally, the lack of medical facilities in those countries which report high instances of HIV infection also make it impossible that there has actually been wide-spread testing of the population to determine the actual rates of infection. Frankly, the reported rates of infection and death of AIDS in, say Africa, could be true only if every every death recorded or indicated in the census data for those countries were due to HIV. When it comes to AIDS in the Third World, neither Clinton, nor WHO, nor we, know what we are talking about. The facts just aren't there.

VietVet

[Charles Henrickson]

He wasn't a President, but he played one on TV.

[L.N. Smithee]

William Jefferson Clinton was the 42nd president.

And the 2nd to be impeached.

[L.N. Smithee]

Please, Doug. You sound like a Reagan-hater. Sheesh.

[Young Werther]

Remember the bounty hunter "Greedo" in the original Star Wars? President Spitoon measures up!

Meanwhile one of the people villified by the Spitoon's Justice Department, Bill Gates, just gave $100 Million for Aids research and treatment. Who'll be remembered. Who has built his legacy on good works, (and an OS that works good!)?

[L.N. Smithee]

This sanctimoniousness coming from the first President who put himself at risk for HIV. Incredible.

[vikingchick]

More must be done by governments, too, especially in answering the call of Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, for $10 billion to fight AIDS worldwide.

Great idea! Paging Streisand, Baldwin, Roberts, O'Donnell, Spacey, Geffen, Affleck, Lange, Degeneres, etc., etc.