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[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Daemon, I wasn't brushing it off at all. It's just that AIDS has its limitations.

How so?

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

How so?

AIDS can't live long without a host, and it's not airborne.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

AIDS can't live long without a host, and it's not airborne.

Thank God for that...but the problem is...it's still spreading thru other modes of contact and worst yet is that people have been told how to prevent it and yet still do not take precautions even when they are readily and widely available....what does that say about us as a species?

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Thank God for that...but the problem is...it's still spreading thru other modes of contact and worst yet is that people have been told how to prevent it and yet still do not take precautions even when they are readily and widely available....what does that say about us as a species?

Technically, yeah.

But if we want a full perspective, we should include the people who are told in places including South Africa that having sex with virgins or babies can prevent or cure AIDS. Also consider the "out of sight, out of mind" approach to STDs and other diseases that is rampant in national and international communities where a lack of education/information interwines with a lack of resources?

I think of that Always commercial about the little girls in African communities who can't go to school because of their menstrual cycles. Imagine what's going on in similar areas when it comes to safe sex and STDs?

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Technically, yeah.

But if we want a full perspective, we should include the people who are told in places including South Africa that having sex with virgins or babies can prevent or cure AIDS. Also consider the "out of sight, out of mind" approach to STDs and other diseases that is rampant in national and international communities where a lack of education/information interwines with a lack of resources?

I think of that Always commercial about the little girls in African communities who can't go to school because of their menstrual cycles. Imagine what's going on in similar areas when it comes to safe sex and STDs?

well you all are correct...

I am also looking at the fact that the fastest growing rate of new cases are among women, especially Black women so I figure no matter how we slice it...there is a huge problem on our hands as to how HIV and AIDS are both being dealt with worldwide.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

well you all are correct...

I am also looking at the fact that the fastest growing rate of new cases are among women, especially Black women so I figure no matter how we slice it...there is a huge problem on our hands as to how HIV and AIDS are both being dealt with worldwide.

Huge problem, yes.

A huge problem that we may all experience by merely coexisting, no.

But PLEASE sound the alarm when the government finishes developing that AIDS mosquito.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Huge problem, yes.

A huge problem that we may all experience by merely coexisting, no.

But PLEASE sound the alarm when the government finishes developing that AIDS mosquito.

conspiracy theory thread please...

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Technically, yeah.

But if we want a full perspective, we should include the people who are told in places including South Africa that having sex with virgins or babies can prevent or cure AIDS. Also consider the "out of sight, out of mind" approach to STDs and other diseases that is rampant in national and international communities where a lack of education/information interwines with a lack of resources?

I think of that Always commercial about the little girls in African communities who can't go to school because of their menstrual cycles. Imagine what's going on in similar areas when it comes to safe sex and STDs?

YES!!!! DSTCHAOS, you are right on.

Daemon, I'm not against anything you've said, it's just that AIDS isn't really effecting the things we need to survive. Who's to say that what's going on in Africa won't happen over here but on a much larger degree? I'm not sure if you know this, but cities typically have only three days worth of food, so if you think about it, civilizations being just three or four meals away from anarchy isn't taken seriously enough. No one, including me seems to think about running out of food or water. In the United States, plans for dealing with a pandemic call for people to keep at least three weeks worth of food and water stockpiled. How many of us are actually doing that? My kitty has more food and water stockpiled than I do. (she's so adorable)

Personally, I think 10 weeks is better, because how long would your stocks last if shops emptied and your water supply dried up? Even if everyone were willing, many people might not be able to afford to stockpile enough food. AIDS really doesn't effect us in this way, at least not to a degree where everyone is effected by it.