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Come on. HIV is still a major pandemic, but medical research has given us a dozen compounds against it. If caught early you can live 30 years while HIV-positi
by HarryHirsch 11y ago
Come on. HIV is still a major pandemic, but medical research has given us a dozen compounds against it. If caught early you can live 30 years while HIV-positive. Without medication it's still a death sentence. Try Botswana or Zimbabwe if you think AIDS isn't a problem.
And you should thank the physician who caught that Patrick Sawyer fellow in time. Ebola in Lagos would have been catastrophic.
- diminish 11y agoMaybe the fear mongering for specific incoming threats in main stream media is a required part of fund raising. Then I could raise 2 critics: 1. The media-incited fear must be equally allocated to old, common as well as new threats 2. The tabloid type of fear mongering isn't needed. Actually the NYT article is quite serious and informative, the headline which is similar to "winter coming" asks for preparations.
- unclebucknasty 11y agoThat's funny: serious and informative, yet soberly asking for preparations using a commonly known pop culture phrase that refers to an impending zombie apocalypse.
- unclebucknasty 11y agoThat's not my point. Mark your calendar for a year from today. Two years at most. I all but guarantee you that Zika won't be in the headlines then, but another Scary Ass Microbe will be.