[Dean's World] Dean: Everyone Has AIDS!

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Posted by Dean:
Everyone Has AIDS!
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1196250727.shtml


   Karol Sikora notes:

     It monopolised ministerial attention and swallowed huge sums of
     public money in campaigns to raise public awareness.

     The gay community, which was the most likely to be affected by
     Aids, was at the forefront of the pressure for vastly increased
     state funding.

     A whiff of panic filled the air, with projections of a soaring rate
     of mortality from Aids before the end of the century.

     The Aids terror was extended overseas. It was said that a massive
     pandemic, on the scale of a modern Black Death, was sweeping
     through the Third World.

     Death, in the form of HIV/Aids, was sweeping his cruel scythe
     through Africa and the Indian sub-continent, extracting an
     unprecedented toll.

   And it turned out to be [1]a bunch of crap, sucking up money and
   attention giving people condoms and useless medicines that should have
   been spent on malaria, cholera, sanitation, and nutrition.

   One day a reckoning is going to come on this, but I suspect those most
   responsible will have managed a golden parachute to retirement without
   having to give any real accounting. Instead the young turks will wind
   up paying the price in shame.

   When you pay people to see something, it turns out that they tend to
   see it whether it's there or not.

References

   1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=495515&in_page_id=1770