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To: carranza2 who wrote (53643)	8/16/2009 10:20:28 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219834

That world you invested so much is crumbling down around you. You came late. Those who came earlier than you lived the American dream and today do not even remember their roots. You have not lived it to the fullest. Thus you still want that world to be around you. Luckily you are in here where you grasp the shape if things to come. I embrace the change for it is unavoidable. And it has htis name because it cannot be avoided.

To: carranza2 who wrote (53643)	8/17/2009 1:05:59 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 219834

Grrr.... Chrome crashed and took my excellent post with it. Suffice to say [rehashing is such a pain], AIDS does seem to be caused by a virus. The fact that drugs work as expected says so, not to mention other things such as male homosexual transmission. Where I disagreed with conventional wisdom was in vectors of transmission. In the mid 1980s, it was conventional thinking that anyone could get it. Advertising showed gorgeous women who were a threat to red-blooded males. It was obviously a false idea. HIV doesn't jump through skin. It is a disease [mostly] of male homosexuals [excellent means of transmission by direct injection], injecting drug users [direct injection again], females [recipients of male sperm direct injection again], blood recipients, children of infected mothers. According to a doctor I know who worked in South Africa, the huge rate he saw [which was news to me 10 years ago] was due to high frequencies of lesions on penises enabling virus ingress. My guess was a 1990 peak in AIDS. Bingo, spot on. But there is a very nasty thing going on now; the virus is challenging human ideology. As more and more people live long lives with HIV, they infect more people. But fortunately, it looks as though the rate of transmission is so low that the virus is going to lose anyway, but it's not certain. So far, the virus and the pharmaceutical companies are doing very well from their symbiosis. If the numbers with HIV were greater, there would need to be "leper colonies" where the infected are kept away from the rest of us. Initially, that was [mostly] the reaction as fear and ignorance meant the infected were ostracized. That seemed silly because the virus obviously had a very hard time staying in business [depending on direct injection to keep sales up]. Fortunately, the infection vectors [in places like NZ] are largely by mutual consent rather than randomly selected as in an influenza epidemic. The surest way of exterminating AIDS is VVV [Virtuous Victorian Values]. Humans around the world invented monogamous marriages millennia ago. There was a good reason and it wasn't because they weren't "liberated" and rational. They spent a lot of their time figuring out how to stay alive and there were plenty of ways of not staying alive without increasing the odds against. If the neighbouring tribe didn't eat you, a malaria bug probably would, and if not that, then AIDS was lurking, along with any number of other diseases and woes. Mqurice