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.
They may well have pushed too far- I think more people are wising up to the simple fact that this is a mostly-preventable disease, and that the vast fortunes being expended on a "cure" might be better-spent on miseries common to all of us- like cancer and diabetes, for example.
We need to get these sodomites to stop engaging in the reckless behavior that's causing the spread of this horrible disease. If we had quarantined those with H.I.V. back in the early 1980s, we could've greatly reduced its spread and saved hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives. Absolutely sickening what the sodomite lobby has been able to do to basic health care/disease prevention in our society. Of course, the gutless bastards in government have helped that along.
The 15% of heteros that got the virus are most likely sluts of either the male or female persuassion.
That hundreds of men thing caught my eye as well. Good God. For fear of being banned I will refrain from further comment.
Those "cliches" sure are killing a lot of people.
Sodomy is so dangerous that the average age at death for sodomites before AIDS was 39. The average age at death now (last # I've read) is 39. With new strain it will probably decline.
Those "cliches" sure are killing a lot of people.
Not my quote. I was quoting someone else.
He in turn, put the quote marks around the term "Cliches about homosexuals" Indicating that he didn't believe it.
Read the whole thing in context.
You are conflating possibility with probability.
Whoda thought it huh?? However, CT isn't entirely liberal, only parts of it are.
Perversion is not festive.
During the turn of the century, the artists who engaged in underground sex died from syphillis and TB. Again the behavior includes insatiable lust which overcomes all restraints of being responsible. Part of gay sex is the desire to escape and get high. Many of the prominent gay people of the past also engaged in the usage of opium and cocaine in conjunction with their sexual activity. All we see today is nothing new. Being gay in the past and present means to engage in high risk activity no different from a person who chooses to smoke like a chimmney. Except one form of behavior is being introduced to our kids in school and the other is banned.
It has nothing to do with AIDS. This testing is for a National DNA database.
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