Elroy and co, read for meaning. What ElM is saying is that he might have a theory that brains are switched off by a virus for some people. He needs lots of OPM from the Helen Clarksters to investigate his theory and the research is obviously vital.
There is plenty of evidence that brains are switched off and we can see it in profusion here. Unfortunately, the researchers are like Zomby who didn't see the financial woes which would result from lots of borrowing because he had a hole in his head right where the knowledge of borrowing problems should have been. So it was all Uncle Al KBE's fault. Subject 53236
Regarding HIV and AIDS, again ElM is right. Back in 1981 but possibly it was as late as 1983 I got very excited because AIDS was looking like H1N1 but with a better kill rate. My first idea was to start a coffins and funerals business [with a McDonald's type production line and with drive through to save time]. But after studying graphs and thinking about it all, it was obvious that the disease would peak about 1990 and lurk around after that picking off the unwary and unlucky.
It was not of great concern as our children would be too young to be caught in the maelstrom.
It was laughable when in 1986 there were advertisements showing gorgeous women and how they could infect men. It was very obviously a problem anal sex people and drug injectors. Regular people wouldn't get it.
Women in heterosexual activity were at grave risk compared with men in heterosexual activity. That's because women cannot do anal sex on men but men can do it to them and women have a big collection pot for the man's ejaculate which contains the load of virus. Men in regular sex with women have almost no receipt of fluid and that which they do get is washed out of their urethra at the next urination and their chance of having lesions on their penis or in their urethra is low. Lesions can allow virus access to the blood stream.
Sure enough, as expected quarter of a century ago the virus had a good innings, but peaked about 1990 [Africa is a place on its own] and is now of almost no interest in NZ.
My original expectation of peaking in 1990 and fizzling out didn't allow for the antiviral drugs which allow HIV people to stay alive and go on infecting people for many years. Even with that added vector of transmission HIV infections haven't made progress. The virus must thank its lucky stars than humans spent a fortune to ensure the virus stayed alive.
The pharmaceutical companies and the virus are working together, with the drug companies making a fortune and the virus carrying on and not being exterminated.
It's germ warfare. Monogamy will be reinvented as the dopey
Baby Boomers and their acolytes are buried. The reason monogamny was invented in the first place was not for some esoteric prudish religious obscurity, but to stay alive.
In little tribes of chimps, promiscuous sex is okay because the pools being infected are small. With 6 billion people living in one big group, a chain reaction can do a vast amount of damage and there's no barrier other than the barriers individuals create by their chosen or genetically expressed behaviour.
A few can get away with it, until an infection arrives, then, if there is a big enough pool of people acting a certain way, down they go. Injecting drug users went down with AIDS. Male homosexuals went down in droves. There was no risk to lesbians [if not druggies or on the receiving end of anal sex from a half way homosexual male].
ElM also said NOT that he had AIDS but that the doctor figured "Skinny 56 kg guy in Africa, young and randy, gotta be AIDS." Doctor gets money, send ELM on his way. But it was another infectious disease. Also, having unprotected sex with a woman with HIV is not so hazardous if no penis lesions. Of course it's more hazardous than being 10,000 km away, but somehow she has to get fluids into the bloke and not just swallowed, but into his blood stream.
A new science is needed. One not based on Helen Clarksterism.
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