🚀 go-pugleaf

In co.general Adam Kippes <adam.kippes@pobox.com> wrote:
->In any case, AIDS is hardly in the same category as the plague aside from
->the massive mortality. 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.

Besides that, we know what the vectors are and they are quite simple
to avoid.

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

The plague would not sweep through this country.  The vector has been
mostly eliminated.   We have a couple of people come down with the
plague every year right here in Colorado, and it does NOT sweep
across the state.    

Most people no longer carry fleas.

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

And it gets from those reservoirs into a few people every year, but it
does not become an epidemic.

->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.

Yup!  And taking a few simple precautions can keep you disease free
while still enjoying those lifestyles!  Pretty cool.  

-DanD

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