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Adam Kippes wrote:
> 
> In <3663560e.0@news.mho.net>, Melissa9Z@Zmho.net (Melissa) wrote:
> 
> > >I've heard it as two-thirds.  We of the late twentieth century have no idea
> > >what a REAL communicable disease is.
> 
> > Speak for yourself. CBS said tonight that by the end of next year, the average
> > life expectancy in sub Saharan Africa will be reduced to 43 years old, because
> > of AIDS. Jeez.
> 
> They also told us in the '70s we would freeze to death, in the '80s we were
> going to get nuked, and in the '90s we'll all melt.

Time, and the advance of science, refines our predictions of the future. PS,
we're not going to melt, but over the next two centuries, most of the seaboard
populations may have to move inland or drown. Or we might more appropriately
develop a cooperation with the sea, and begin to farm the expanded continental
shelves.

> 
> In any case, AIDS is hardly in the same category as the plague aside from
> the massive mortality.

"aside from the massive mortality"? What the hell else is there? Lives who
were, cut short of their time, as a rule laid low in their prime or just short
of it? An alien enemy could not choose a better scythe with which they might
become the Grim Reaper.

> Losing maybe a third or less of your population over
> a period of many years is not quite the same as having half die in a few
> weeks.

No. It's worse. In a Plague, people just plain drop dead, in a month it's
over, there's nothing anyone could have done and not enough time to try. With
AIDS you see families constantly ripped apart, extended dying all drawn out
into the point where both the patient and the mourners learn to mourn
themselves before the time of suffering is ended and in fact all, despite the
sorrow and dread, longing for closure, except for the die-hards who in any
case have scant hope to avert doom. Better a Plague than the long suffering
and worse - the emergence of an industry pretending to pamper those who know
that they are essentially dead but still moving.

The only good thing here is that at least those who are the most promising
whose lives are cut short have some remaining time to pass pon their torch to
whomever they best consider able to further it.

> 
> And AIDS - bless it - takes so long to kill most of its victims that it
> does give a chance to find a cure;

It's been nearly 20 years or more.

> that's hardly true of the plague. Even
> today the plague would sweep right through a country (even ours); there
> simply wouldn't be the time to distribute and use what little medicine
> sometimes works.

And it would be gone and we'd be shut of it. Instead, we see the emergence of
industries supporting "AIDS research"... and their cure is useless and
nonprofitable if the disease is eliminated. In the Plague, all who can get it
die and die quickly-  with the Slow Plague they linger as do their future
mourners and the ghouls who batten on the suffering of the survivors and the
dying. In the Plague, all who can die, do - all who cannot be killed, live.
And go on, knowing that they cannot die from _this_. 

> 
> Something to think about when you consider that it has reservoirs in the
> Southwest, and ever more so across the border.

Just like the antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis that has been evolved at the
border with Mexico? Which is inextricably linked with HIV in the transborder
regions?

> 
> AIDS, despite what CBS and other leftist scaremongers tried to tell us, has
> remained almost entirely within its original populations; it is a
> "lifestyle" disease if ever there was one.

I must agree if only to rephrase: "only monogamy or celibacy combined with
health and insularity can assuredly prevent this scourge". But it's against
human-nature. I know! Let's inculcate a delusional-system, which can alone
guard against human-nature's need for polygamy enabling a horrific slowvirus
plague!

It almost worked the _last_ time... but this time, let's not disguise it as a
religion, but instead as a science. "teach your children well and make sure
you understand what it is that you teach".

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