I may be dense, and I dont watch much TV (except sports and movies)or read newspapers but even I know about AIDS. I cant believe the numbers I do hear about the number of new AIDS infections. I can see the occasional poor boob who gets it from a hooker. but who else is that stupid? I know about the woman(nurse) who is suing the hospital for contracting AIDS when she followed their guidelines but still got it when treating AIDS patients. SO there is 2 people but the reported number is way above that!
Let’s see: the only sentence in the post that ends with a question mark seems to be rhetorical. That leaves us with the question posed in the subject line, which you seem to have implicitly answered in your second sentence.
AIDS IS still around, and worse: it’s growing. No matter how many safe sex campaigns we make, there’s always that someone who thinks “aw, it won’t happen to me…”.
According to something I just read on a news website, in Africa AIDS is now the leading cause of death! :eek
There are more than enough straight folks around who still think of AIDS as a “gay disease” and don’t practice safe sex. I understand that the group with the fastest-growing number of AIDS cases in the USA is heterosexual women 18-35. Too many women are having sex without insisting on the man wearing a condom, assuming that her contraception will prevent anything from passing between them. But other than the female condom, there is no contraception other than a regular condom that will protect against STDs, AIDS especially.
I subscribe to Newsweek and they’ve had a few informative stories in the past six months about the worldwide AIDS epidemic. Here are some links if you’d like to learn more:
As it happens, Friday, December 1, is World AIDS Day.
I always thought that it would peak and then the ones with it would die and it would be forgotten. or remembered as a warning. Natures way of thinning out a population. But it seems to keep on going and going… Maybe I am just a sissy but if I was sexually active, I would be the safest person in the whole world. I can understand Africa but here in America, it doesnt make sense. I always think of life situations as if I were watching a movie. This plot line seems a little thin. It is all based on a good number of the population being incredibly dense. where we all know that most people arent that way. so if this were a movie I wouldn’t believe it.
Who says most people aren’t that way? Americans and sex have always been an uncomfortable fit. In the majority, we’re very skittish about talking about it, about doing it, about talking about doing it, etc. Despite Hollywood’s fictional free-for-alls, sex in the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s has been fairly restrained…publically.
When the majority of a population can’t admit that something that supposedly happened only to the Four H’s (Homosexuals, Heroin addicts, Hemophiliacs, and Haitians) can happen ( and does, frequently) to them, you have problems preventing it. If someone doesn’t believe that they’re at risk for something, they’re not going to protect themselves from it. There are 10s of millions of men out there that truly believe that they can’t possibly get AIDS because it’s a gay disease. There are 10’s of millions of women out there that can’t believe that they can get AIDS because they aren’t having sex with a gay man or a heroin addict.
The old coming-out slogan was “Silence=Death”. The new AIDS prevention slogan should be “Denial=Death”.
sounds like nature is just cleaning up the population by culling out the "H"s (Homos,Hemos,hookers,heroinheads,honestly dumb, haitians). what would this do to the Bell curve?
Even before you posted this I was pretty sure that you weren’t sexually active. If you were, you’d have a much better understanding of the situation.
I think we’re about to have a forcible hijack…
Why would getting rid of homosexuals or hemophiliacs be “cleaning up the population” and why does nature care how “clean” the human population is?
Note that if you’re thinking is what it sounds like, I’ll likely ask you to step into The BBQ Pit with me, so if this is some sort of adolescent macho thing, you’re well advised to say so now…
Five million new infections, Thirty Six million now ill, Three million deaths this year, Twenty one million total dead.
The UNAIDS Organization says, “Yes”.
Tris
Obviously, AIDS is still around. I don’t think that this question belongs on this board at all, and it definitely doesn’t belong in GQ. Goodbye.