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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (125202)	2/4/2001 3:51:18 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<<E I have no reason to doubt from your words that you are far more an expert in practice in the ways of spreading aids >>> Nice. Please don't address me any more.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (125202)	2/4/2001 5:02:24 PM
From: TimbaBear	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Abstinence is the cure there and the cure here and that is not going to happen. Clean decent people have little likelyhood of contracting aids. With the current understanding of the causes the epidemic in this country, aids is confined predominately to those who are to dumb or careless. Those living a high risk life style. A condom machine every ten feet everywhere in the world would have no effect on the current vectors in the spread of aids. Let me see if I understand what you are saying here. Are you saying that of the scores of millions of people throughout the world that have contracted AIDS, they are predominately dumb and careless? Isn't that attitude a bit self-righteous? Your profile says you have a BSEE, so I would think you have had rigorous training in scientific methodology. Where is your scientific evidence to support a statement like that? What about the virus that has passed through blood transfusions, through medical field personnel that had unavoidable contact with blood, about the poor who haven't had the benefits of an education(I believe that ignorance is much different than being dumb)? Abstinence is the cure.....hmmmm.....so no sex, no babies, no human race....yep, that would cure it, but it seems a bit radical don't you think? I think the current vectors of AIDS factor in the use of condoms at their present level of usage, are you saying that condoms don't help prevent the spread of AIDS? At the rate that aids may reduce populations in these Saharan areas, those who are not infected will prosper and prosperity creates family planning. When an epidemic spreads through any society, whether you might think the disease some Almighty retribution or not, the epidemic deprives that society of the talents of those infected as well as those resources that have to be diverted to deal with the epidemic and it's aftermath. To say that those who are left will prosper needs to be proven, not assumed. How does prosperity create family planning? Where does that come from and how does it relate to the issue of AIDS? Aren't you arguing in the rest of your post that family planning doesn't work? Aren't there reams of evidence that poverty fosters larger families and prosperity fosters smaller ones? Finally, are you really saying:"If they have AIDS, it serves them right!?" If so, where is your compassion for your fellow man? Education on the disease and medical aid for those afflicted is arguably a more compassionate and common sense approach. What kind of medical aid would you propose? Funding for the expensive drug cocktails that clearly demonstrate the most effectiveness in maintaining quality of life and length of survival? This is vastly more expensive than condoms. And where would these poor people get the money? Would you support them getting money from our tax dollars?(somehow, I suspect not, so we must assume that others might not support it either) So, while your solution has the appearance of sounding rational, if it can't or won't be implemented, then it really isn't a solution is it? So tell me, once we get past the issue of HOW the people contracted the disease, and deal with the fact that many millions currently have it, what realistic solution would you put forth that you would vote for to deal effectively with this human tragedy?