I remember a time when presenters and all of those involved in the Academy Awards used to wear red ribbons signifying AIDS awareness. Did it just become an unattractive cliché? Or have we actually found a cure and I’m the only one who wasn’t informed?
Here’s hoping The Return of the King Sweeps 'em all
Obviously more a PC/political fad since they have not found a cure, but I digress.
To take your thread one step further, I think it’s general consensus that there will most likely never be an actual cure. Think flu and colds. Once you find something that works, it mutates to something else (strains). If you don’t find something that works? Well, viruses (viri?) can be a cantankerous lot and sometimes say, “Hey, lets mutate anyway. Just in case they’re getting close.”
Right now, the best you can hope for is treating the symptoms and keeping the person alive, which they are doing marvelous things with these days. As far as a cure, I think cancer would be first since we’ve studied it longer. But that. too, mutates.
Sorry for the screed, and thanks for the time, but I’m of the mind that these ribbons are worn because it’s what’s expected, not because they really care about the issue. Excetions, though, I’m sure are legion.