Vaccine Failure Means Setback in AIDS Fight

FOXNews.com ^ | Friday, March 21, 2008 | FOXNews.com

[metmom]

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If the vaccine were accompanied by self-control it might work better. As a matter of fact, aspirin and self-control do a pretty good job of protecting people from AIDS.

[BlackVeil]

It might also be harmful because even the hope of having a vacinne might encourage high-risk behaviour.

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, folks.

NO cheers, unfortunately.

...but still, Happy Good Friday.

[tm61]

thats cuz whitey dont want no cure for da dizease he uzes to keep da black man dowwnn

[Bulldawg Fan]

Self control would almost totally eliminate AIDS. All the billions and billions have been wasted, but hey, its the PC disease.

[50sDad]

I am no expert...but have we ever killed a virus?

[Guenevere]

For the most part, it's a result of a lifestyle choice and the US is spending 500 million per year trying to 'cure' it .....

...rather than containing the spread of it.....

..rather than shutting down the very places where it breeds.

PC will be the death of us.

Our moral compass has been misplaced.

[yankeedame]

If the vaccine were accompanied by self-control it might work better. As a matter of fact, aspirin and self-control do a pretty good job of protecting people from AIDS.

[Alter Kaker]

If the vaccine were accompanied by self-control it might work better. As a matter of fact, aspirin and self-control do a pretty good job of protecting people from AIDS.

Funny, but most diseases are preventable by self-control. As far as dollar impact on the economy goes, the Common Cold beats HIV/AIDS by a mile, and yet something like 90% of all cold cases could be prevented if people simply washed their hands more often. Yet whenever we have a cold thread, we don't have self righteous moralists lambasting those of us stupid ones who occasionally get colds. Maybe you should spend less time casting stones and more time thinking up solutions to one of the great moral tests of our time.

[Smokin' Joe]

Retrovirus ping

[Alter Kaker]

...rather than containing the spread of it.....

Actually, the bulk of US HIV/AIDS money is going to containing the spread of HIV/AIDS. So you're pretty much dead wrong there.

..rather than shutting down the very places where it breeds.

You want to shut down sub-Saharan Africa? How would that work, exactly?

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You should wash your hands like I do.

[Judith Anne]

The impact of a diagnosis of “common cold” has no comparison to the impact of a diagnosis of “HIV.”

/Just sayin...

[MrB]

Self control is the

OPPOSITE

of the goal.

The whole push for a vaccine/cure and the accompanying tax dollars expended on it are for

eliminating this consequence for chosen sexual behavior.

It’s “liberalism” in a nutshell.

The reason AIDS is such a HUGE issue on the left is that it is an “unalleviatable” consequence for behavior choices, especially sexual behavior choices.

[Alter Kaker]

You should wash your hands like I do.

I do wash my hands, AD, but obviously a lot of people don't -- else we wouldn't have tens of millions of cold cases each year. If you want to talk about dollar impact, the impact of all those missed work days on the economy is staggering -- and completely dwarfs HIV/AIDS. Yet the only threads in which the victims of a disease are regularly blamed are HIV/AIDS threads.

Maybe it's because you don't actually know anybody with HIV?

[Joe 6-pack]

"As a matter of fact, aspirin and self-control do a pretty good job of protecting people from AIDS."

Aspirin is potentially 100% effective in preventing AIDS. One merely need place the aspirin between one's clenched butt cheeks and don't let it fall out.

[Alter Kaker]

Self control is the OPPOSITE of the goal. The whole push for a vaccine/cure and the accompanying tax dollars expended on it are for eliminating this consequence for chosen sexual behavior.

I take it you're morally opposed as well to Robitussin, since Robitussin just encourages people to make reckless lifestyle choices -- not regularly washing their hands in cold and flu season -- instead of making real, meaningful change?

If Robitussin eliminates the consequence of a poor decision (by masking cold symptoms)... does that make Robitussin liberal?

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The last two people I knew with AIDS are now dead. I also know smokers who have cancer and obese people with blown knees and clotted arteries. I have known drunks who died of cirrhosis. Does that all count?