[lbo-talk] RE: Africa R.I.P.

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Tue Dec 16 15:05:31 PST 2003


Joseph wrote:

"I think it is time to start questioning some of the claims made by the Aids lobby. Their certainties are so fanatical, the powers they claim so far-reaching. Their authority is ultimately derived from computer-generated estimates, which they wield like weapons, overwhelming any resistance with dumbfounding atom bombs of hypothetical human misery. Give them their head, and they will commandeer all resources to fight just one disease. Who knows, they may defeat Aids, but what if we wake up five years hence to discover that the problem has been blown up out of all proportion by unsound estimates, causing upwards of $20 billion to be wasted?"

Thanks for the article. I've been puzzled by this phenomenon for a long time. "How," I would ask myself, "can they tell what the AIDS epidemic is like in a country where they can't afford sugar, salt, and water for babies who die of diarrhea; does everyone take an AIDS test? Can they afford that? And, without a test, how can they tell it's when its symptoms are indistinguishable from the symptoms of malnutrition with a cold. Why do Hollywood startlets sport AIDS pins on their lapels and not malaria pins? Could it be because Hollywood starlets do not die of Malaria? And why have we mounted such a terror campaign about AIDS? Could it be because we want no part of sexual liberation? And why is AIDS always about Africa and east Asia? Does this have anything to do with racism? And why is AIDS research so overfunded? etc.

Joanna



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