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HIV harbinger
Waterbury Republican-American ^ | February 15, 2005 | Editorial

Posted on 02/15/2005 1:32:36 PM PST by Graybeard58

Last week's announcement by federal and New York City health authorities of the discovery of a superstrain of HIV that is unimaginably aggressive and impossible to treat has help smash clichés about homosexuals and fidelity while undermining the foundation of arguments for mandatory HIV testing for all Americans.

A 40-something homosexual is believed to have contracted the superstrain in October, but was not diagnosed until December. In between, he had unprotected sex with hundreds of men, which means a geometric progression of the supervirus through the homosexual community may be under way. What has health officials horrified is the man developed AIDS in fewer than three months, instead of seven to 10 years it usually takes when HIV goes untreated, and the supervirus is resistant to the drugs given to treat AIDS. Moreover, they have scoured the city looking for his partners, but to date have contacted only about a dozen and not all have been willing to help them.

This story is the homosexual lobby's worst nightmare. When it agitates for marriage, adoption and other extraordinary rights, it finds homosexuals who have been in committed relationships for long periods to speak to legislators, judges or journalists. But as extensive sociological research has shown, the New York City case is more typical of the promiscuous lifestyle of homosexuals.

The disclosure of the HIV superstrain came days after the publication of two government-funded studies that recommended routine annual testing for AIDS for the entire U.S. population as a way of reducing HIV rates. But that counsel ignores the paramount issue of risk.

As much as homosexual agitators contend HIV threatens everyone, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 82 percent of America's 920,000 AIDS cases in 2003 began with homosexual sex, the sharing of drug needles or both. Heterosexual contact accounted for less than 15 percent, but the rate among monogamous couples and abstinent singles was 0 percent. These numbers illustrate best why the life expectancy of homosexuals is at least 30 years shorter than that of the average heterosexual.

At a time when the cost of health insurance is soaring and millions have lost or are at risk of losing their health coverage, why should taxpayers through Medicaid and insurers through higher premiums have to pay so that more than 200 million people may undergo unnecessary testing when the people most responsible for transmitting HIV won't submit to tests or take precautions to prevent the spread of the disease?

Since the initial AIDS outbreak more than 20 years ago, health officials have recommended routine HIV testing for people in high-risk groups.

That's sound advice; just because those mostly likely to come down with AIDS refuse to accept it or change their lifestyles to reduce their risk is no excuse for burdening everyone else with the cost and inconvenience of testing that will tell them what they already know.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: aids; communicabledisease; gaydisease; grid; hiv; homosexual; homosexualagenda; perversion; perverts; retribution
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To: Brad Cloven

lets do this conservativly with the numbers

If only 1/2 of those homosexuals develop aids, how many will that be?

100 infecting an additional 100 yields 1000 cases.

If each of those 1000 cases actually infects 100 more yiels 100,000 new cases.

(hopefully I got the math correct)

That is just three "generations" of infection assuming only 1/2 of all sexual encounters yield an actual infection.


21 posted on 02/15/2005 2:13:29 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Graybeard58

Over 5000 years ago the Bible has recorded their observation of people who practice sodomy and promiscuity. Both are considered sinful (spiritual) and unclean (biological) and unwholesome (bad and irresponsible for society). History has recorded that people who engage in this behavior tend to be irresponsible, cannot control their lust, and make themselves and their partner prone to disease. Disease and early death is the consequences. This new virus is only reaffirming the unhealthiness of sodomy and promiscuity. So why is our schools trying to introduce this to our kids?


22 posted on 02/15/2005 2:14:11 PM PST by Fee (Great powers never let minor allies dictate who, where and when they must fight.)
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To: Brad Cloven; All

lets do this conservativly with the numbers

If only 1/2 of those homosexuals develop aids, how many will that be?

100 infecting an additional 100 yields 1000 cases.

If each of those 1000 cases actually infects 100 more yiels 100,000 new cases.

(hopefully I got the math correct)

That is just three "generations" of infection assuming only 1/2 of all sexual encounters yield an actual infection.


forgot to add: I wonder if this "death rate" is sustainable since each month the cases should grow exponentially.

This has the potential of being a new patient zero. There is no containment on this.


23 posted on 02/15/2005 2:15:31 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: MineralMan

The dude on the far left in the back.... THAT's my look. That's the fasion statement I have been looking for!! Eureka!

Bones


24 posted on 02/15/2005 2:16:04 PM PST by Bones75
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To: Ace of Spades

Ya dont' have to quarentine the whole person, just their genitalia.

hehe


25 posted on 02/15/2005 2:16:21 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Graybeard58

Thanks..wow..talk about straight talk..is this editorial board/point of view new?..it's tremendous...Who owns the paper?


26 posted on 02/15/2005 2:16:45 PM PST by ken5050 ("Joe Biden is the dumbest person in the Senate"......the Great One, Mark Levin)
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To: Jaysun
So far as I know, some of the "cliches about homosexuals" are that they have unprotected homosexual sex with lots of partners, and that they spread AIDS as a result.

I don't think those are really cliches...they are at least to a significant extent the reality. I think the cliches are the been together for 20 years couples that put forward while they seek to redefine marriage.

28 posted on 02/15/2005 2:33:34 PM PST by blanknoone (Steyn: "The Dems are all exit and no strategy")
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To: longtermmemmory
(hopefully I got the math correct)

Nope.

100*100=10,000 not 1,000

Carry that forward another generation of 100 and it is 1,000,000 not 100,000.

That said I think this particular 'hundreds' is rather high, even for the homosexual community.

29 posted on 02/15/2005 2:37:07 PM PST by blanknoone (Steyn: "The Dems are all exit and no strategy")
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To: Jaysun
"Last week's announcement by federal and New York City health authorities of the discovery of a superstrain of HIV...has help smash cliches about homosexuals and fidelity."

I read that to mean the cliches of the left - they are promoting that homos are loving couples that are monogamous and fit to marry each other and adopt children.

May be my misread but it fits in with the overall tone of the article.

So far as I know, some of the "cliches about homosexuals" are that they have unprotected homosexual sex with lots of partners, and that they spread AIDS as a result.

Those cliches are accurate as proven by the statistics in the article.

30 posted on 02/15/2005 2:39:05 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Graybeard58

"In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."

Romans 1:27 (NIV)


31 posted on 02/15/2005 2:42:15 PM PST by polymuser
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To: Graybeard58

"recommended routine annual testing for AIDS for the entire U.S. population"


Awesome "back door" (no pun intended) way for Gubmint to get each and every person to submit to National DNA file.

"For your own good, of course"


32 posted on 02/15/2005 2:43:23 PM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: Boundless
A 40-something homosexual is believed to have contracted the superstrain in October, but was not diagnosed until December. In between, he had unprotected sex with hundreds of men, which means a geometric progression of the supervirus through the homosexual community may be under way

What I find amazing is that the "experts" are shocked that the man contracted AIDs in just three months. What I am shocked by, is that the man had sex with "hundreds" of men in just three months. How can anyone be surprised that a fatal disease is contracted with that sort of behavior. (I believe they also left out the part about his participating in heavy-duty drug use during this same period of time.)

33 posted on 02/15/2005 2:48:17 PM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: Graybeard58; DirtyHarryY2K
BTTT


Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1)


What We Can Do To Help Defeat the "Gay" Agenda


Myth and Reality about Homosexuality--Sexual Orientation Section, Guide to Family Issues"

34 posted on 02/15/2005 2:52:11 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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To: Graybeard58

Why not just spread a lot of fairy porn out there where the deviants hang and, instead of trying to stop fairy sexual activity, try to encourage it. A 90 day cure period, i.e., 90 days from catching the disease to it's cure, times 100s or 1000s of cures and before long, New York City would be free, not only of AIDS, but of the terrible disease of faggitude. In fact, in addition to the porn, why not publish scientific studies (from San Francisco) that prove the the "AIDS among fairies" is an urban legend spread by the evil Bush administration. This might increase indiscriminate coupling amonst tinkerbells, thereby, hasting the eradication of the underlying problem. Easy-peasy!


35 posted on 02/15/2005 2:54:20 PM PST by Tacis ("John ("What SF-180?") Kerry - Still Shilling For Those Who Wish America Ill!")
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To: Brad Cloven
That's a whale of a lot of nookie

Somehow, I doubt that nookie was involved at all.

36 posted on 02/15/2005 2:55:50 PM PST by rube
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To: Boundless
Now it's a fast fatal illness

GOOD...less of my money to be used to drag out their hedonistic and meaningless lives...

37 posted on 02/15/2005 2:58:21 PM PST by antivenom (If your not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!!!)
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To: blanknoone
I don't think those are really cliches...they are at least to a significant extent the reality. I think the cliches are the been together for 20 years couples that put forward while they seek to redefine marriage.

I agree, I was using the language used in the article.
38 posted on 02/15/2005 3:05:29 PM PST by Jaysun (Nefarious deeds for hire.)
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To: EdReform; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; stage left; Yakboy; I_Love_My_Husband; ...
Homosexual Agenda Ping.

Excerpt:

This story is the homosexual lobby's worst nightmare. When it agitates for marriage, adoption and other extraordinary rights, it finds homosexuals who have been in committed relationships for long periods to speak to legislators, judges or journalists. But as extensive sociological research has shown, the New York City case is more typical of the promiscuous lifestyle of homosexuals.

If you want on/off the ping list see my profile page.

39 posted on 02/15/2005 3:09:25 PM PST by DirtyHarryY2K (''Go though life with a Bible in one hand and a Newspaper in the other" -- Billy Graham)
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To: taxed2death

This national test proposal is completely idiotic.

How often are they going to test, nationally? After all, it just takes one encounter or one "party" to turn from a neg to a pos.

Will seniors be tested once a year, middle aged tested once a month, and young people tested every week?

I mean, how are they going to do this? I just can't fathom it...


40 posted on 02/15/2005 3:10:23 PM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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