| Iconoclaster 2005-10-26, 10:53 am |
| Well, at least you take a firm stand. And the strange thing is: I support
most of the same things you do. I also believe health care is a right,
and everybody who wants a certain treatment should have access to it, even
if it is somethig infernal such as ARV's. But I alo believe everybody
should have access to *all* the information about the available therapies,
dispensed in an evenhanded manner.
And in that respect, I am the bringer of good news:
There is very little danger in sex, so it can be enjoyed in all its forms.
The danger lies only in the excesses in which a minority indulged during
the seventies. The human body can stand some abuse, but chronic abuse
will bring it down. That should be the mesage. Not joy-killing condoms
and scare stories about nonexisting infections. There are enough STD's to
go around without any magic supervirus named HIV.
Yes, people everywhere in the world have a right to take or not take
medications. So I think the pressure that's being exerted in the U.S. to
start treatment when a (probably useless) marker goes below a certain
level (talking bout CD4 counts) is improper. In other countries the AIDS
specialists are not as fanatic. But the fact that babies are separated
from their mothers if they don't comply with a drug regimen, and mothers
are not allowed to breastfeed, is an outrage and a crime against nature.
That really makes me angry and a rabid enemy of this shitty government
that has turned a great country into a gulag.
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