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- From: dong@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Don M. Gibson)
- Subject: Re: AIDS and those damn democrats
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.174348.16899@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:43:48 GMT
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- gt38091@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Greg ) writes:
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- >fusco@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew Fusco) writes:
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- >i don't mean to come across as insensitive, but aids is hardly an epidemic...
- actually it is according to the definition of "epidemic".
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- >i believe polio killed many more people in it's heydey than aids, and we ARE
- but polio wasn't as severe as the Flu epidemics of the early century.
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- >spending a larger proportion of our budget to fight aids than we did to fight
- is this a statement about health care costs?
- >polio...there are many more conditions that take lives than aids...like i said,
- >it is a serious issue, but we are doing the best that we can be reasonably
- however, one could resonably expect an official national policy of prevention.
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- >expected to do, and besides the whole myth of aids has been greatly exagerated..
- how is that? things look as bleak today as had been predicted.
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- >yes, it is an emotional topic, but the facts tell us that we can expect to be
- >reasonably safe from the disease if we aren't in a "high-risk" category...
- >now, i'm not saying that aids is a gay disease, but an overwhelming majority of
- >aids victims happen to be gay...most of the rest are drug-users or very
- >promiscuios heterosexuals...the odds of a non-drug-using, condom-using hetero-
- >sexual contracting aids is very slim (i really feel sorry for those few who
- >aren't "high risk", yet get the disease)
- boy, you think condom usage would encouraged then.
- to be in the lowest risk group you might add: non-hemopheliac, non-in-need-
- of-surgury, non-goes-to-the-dentist, non-victum-of-violent-crime, ...
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