[Taristin]

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/40395.htm


New aids Virus found in a NYC man. Resistant to three of the four drugs to trat AIDS, and will go from HIV to AIDS in 2-20 months.

Scary.

But... could this be what is needed to stop it? If the virus was immediate, rather than having a 10 yr incubation period, could it be that more people would die from it, before they spread it to countless others? (I know that sounds morbid and unempathetic, but....could it be just what is needed to stop AIDS?)

[TrashMan]

Mah.if you find a cure for AIDS another desease will pop up.
It's the nature's self-defense mechanism.
It's trying to thin us out, but we breed faster than we die.

You can't defeat nature anyway... Honestly, I really don't know why it bothers with AIDS since we're gonna kill ourselves anyway...

[Carl]

that is scary. but yes, it would stop it from spreading, but it won't stop the original one.

[Setekh]

Two months to develop into AIDS? Oh, damn.

Maybe you're right though, Raa - I guess that's part of why HIV/AIDS has spread so far in its present form. I still shudder at the thought of how many deaths this will be responsible for, though.

[Goober5000]

Actually, this is probably similar to what biologists have observed with other diseases.

If the disease has relatively few chances to spread, it will lie low and slow down its maturity cycle so that it can spread to as many people as possible before it does its damage.  If it matures too fast it kills off all the hosts too quickly and won't be able to sustain itself.

However if the disease has relatively many chances to spread, it will mature as fast as possible so that it can make as many copies of itself as possible.  It doesn't matter that the hosts die quickly, because it spreads fast enough to overcome that.

What this probably means is that there are so many instances of unprotected casual sex and sharing of drug needles that AIDS is getting more and more chances to spread.

[Bobboau]

and the people who engage in these activities will die soon.

[vyper]

Yes, but you have huge freaking collateral damage in the mean time.  

I don't want to be insensitive - but Bob has a point. It's an example of evolution in action - the smartest (safest) will survive.  

However this is tragic, and I truly feel for the people who suffer from this condition - especially the children who become infected through no fault of their own.

[Janos]

timespacecontinuum megaedit: Sorry Raa

Hopping onto "this is good" bandwagon, for the reasons already discussed. Plus it will put the people out of their "misery" faster. i am such a faggot

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Janos
i am such a faggot

I really wish that was one of the words in the filter. I hate that word.

[vyper]

Beyond the time warp - faggot is not a swear word per se - it merely refers to a sexual orientation we all find repulsive due to male social preconceptions about intimacy.





What? I'm high on coffee.

[Jetmech Jr.]

Originally posted by vyper
Beyond the time warp - faggot is not a swear word per se - it merely refers to a sexual orientation we all find repulsive due to male social preconceptions about intimacy.





What? I'm high on coffee.

Thats not why I hate the word. It just sounds repulsive.

Which sounds worse when you say it aloud, Faggot or B*tch?

[Singh]

Holy crap indeed.

Nothing good can come from this...nothing good usually does when it comes to virii........

[Jetmech Jr.]

Virii...anything like penii?

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.


Thats not why I hate the word. It just sounds repulsive.

Which sounds worse when you say it aloud, Faggot or B*tch?

It's used in the same hateful way that Nigger is used. That's why there's 'Gay', and there's 'faggot'. (But this is not the place for that)

It's really frakkin scary that this disease mutated as it did. And I truly feel for the people who unwittingly, and unwillingly are given this disease. (Yes, there are actually sick people out there who want to get, and give it)

[Jetmech Jr.]

Originally posted by Raa


It's used in the same hateful way that Nigger is used. That's why there's 'Gay', and there's 'faggot'. (But this is not the place for that)

It's really frakkin scary that this disease mutated as it did. And I truly feel for the people who unwittingly, and unwillingly are given this disease. (Yes, there are actually sick people out there who want to get, and give it)

That too.

[Ford Prefect]

I'm waiting for them to perfect nano-probes-- programmed to constantly screen our bodies and repair anything that isn't working properly. That would just flat-out rule.

[Taristin]

Until it was used to destroy those who opposed the establishment.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
I'm waiting for them to perfect nano-probes-- programmed to constantly screen our bodies and repair anything that isn't working properly. That would just flat-out rule.

Like white blood cells?

[Taristin]

No, he wants something that a group could try to take control of, and use as a bio-terror agent, like that episode of Atlantis.

[Ford Prefect]

Much better than white blood cells. These things would be able to recognize any problem with any system of the body. They could eliminate cancerous cells, clear away arterial clogging, reverse organ trauma, and instantly recognize when a microbe is dangerous.