Re: Aids and Evolution


Hopefully the main thrust of "healthcare" with respect to HIV/AIDS is
to
find a cure for it. And, also hopefully, we will not exhaust society's

resources on nurture and comfort of the doomed
infected, and leave insufficient the resources required to find and
refine -- most long-term effectively -- a cure or, at very least, a
preventive.


Change human nature through education?


Get real.


g

Ragland:
My mother had a friend who was dying of AIDS. He was in a military
hospital. The nurses understandably wore gloves when changing his bed
pan, etc. The man was emaciated. The skin on his face was very
taut...like over a drum. You could tell how the disease had wasted him.
He was wheeling around in a wheelchair frantic and knowing he would
soon be dead. I said to him while he was in bed, "Eventually, they'll
find a cure for AIDS" and he replied, "That's not going to do me much
good now." He died about a week later. His death was a miserable one.
Surrounded by strangers in gloves and frantically awaiting death. I
don't think many "resources" are spent on the nurture and comfort of
the doomed infected. If you consider drugs to be a "comfort" I trust
you are aware this won't necessarily prevent the transmission of HIV to
another person. They might die sooner without the drugs but this won't
necessarily prevent them from infecting somebody else. There are also
those who have HIV and don't know it and unwittingly transfer it to a
sex partner.

The best way to protect yourself is to know very well the person you
plan on having sex with and have tests done before having sex. As far
as resources it has primarily been priorities and not insufficient
funding. HIV/AIDS is a very complex virus. If you are suggesting
society should make it more difficult to receive care and let them die
and focus totally on finding a cure that seems paradoxical. If you want
society to speed up their death through not providing medical care then
why would you be that concerned at finding a cure?

Your perspective appears to be of a Hustler cartoon I saw once. A pink
haired and pierced homosexual is standing on a building ledge and looks
upset. A police officer is also on the ledge. Paramedics arrive and the
police officer says to them, "He said he has AIDS. I said have a nice
flight."

Michael Ragland

Michael Ragland


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