Wednesday, May 31, 2006
AIDS is not really "slowing down"
After 16 years of activism I get a little tired of these snapshots of the AIDS Pandemic that mislead people and give a false impression of the infectious disease picture.
The “numbers” these articles are quoting change all the time, week to week. And as with most statistics, these “numbers” are not necessarily accurate. There are many factors given too much or too little weight, as well as downright errors and short-sighted research criteria.
Americans are infamous for over-simplifying, trying to make issues look black & white when there are many shades of gray. The truth is the Infectious Disease Pandemic is much more complex and challenging, and much worse than our anemic mass-media has been telling you. If we weren’t so distracted we would know that Bird Flu is mostly bullshit, fed to us by George W. Bush. How much do you think Bush knows about illnesses and medicine?
If you really want to understand what’s going on, do research on the following: TB, Malaria, Hepatitis C (HCV) and MRSA – and Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) strains of all these infectious illnesses. The picture is much more complex and much more serious than most people understand.
But infectious illnesses are scary, and we are infamous for ignoring that which scares us.
After 16 years of activism I get a little tired of these snapshots of the AIDS Pandemic that mislead people and give a false impression of the infectious disease picture.
The “numbers” these articles are quoting change all the time, week to week. And as with most statistics, these “numbers” are not necessarily accurate. There are many factors given too much or too little weight, as well as downright errors and short-sighted research criteria.
Americans are infamous for over-simplifying, trying to make issues look black & white when there are many shades of gray. The truth is the Infectious Disease Pandemic is much more complex and challenging, and much worse than our anemic mass-media has been telling you. If we weren’t so distracted we would know that Bird Flu is mostly bullshit, fed to us by George W. Bush. How much do you think Bush knows about illnesses and medicine?
If you really want to understand what’s going on, do research on the following: TB, Malaria, Hepatitis C (HCV) and MRSA – and Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) strains of all these infectious illnesses. The picture is much more complex and much more serious than most people understand.
But infectious illnesses are scary, and we are infamous for ignoring that which scares us.
# posted by Phillip T. Alden @ 6:36 PM 
