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Re: Is the end of AIDS in sight?

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

egorfine wrote: post #138
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #66

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I have spent my adult life in a community that experiences higher-than-average HIV/HepC exposure, and well remember the "Great Die-Off" of the early-to-mid 1990s. To anyone that missed out, dying of AIDs is horrible. The West has the luxury of expensive drugs to treat it, but much of the developing world doesn't have that, and they are still dying like flies, with very little of the transmission happening through hom…

I am afraid to ask but what is similar between AIDS and Fentanylopocalypse? Surely no one choses to get HIV. Surely drug usage is a choice once made. What is the link between the two I am missing here?

If anything, people hate addicts, even more than gays, so there's a significant portion of the population that celebrates overdose deaths; just like they danced with glee over gays dying of AIDS.

But these days, people are lacing pot with fentanyl, so when Thurston Howell XIV smokes a joint at a Harvard frat party, he might well be dead, by the time he hits the floor.

Re: Is the end of AIDS in sight?

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Post by PH95VuimJjqBqy »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #123
Obscurity4340 wrote: post #118

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How does it relate to misogyny if you don't mind me asking?

The article mentions that women are afraid to take prophylactic treatments, because their husbands/boyfriends will take umbrage. It's not uncommon for men to have multiple sexual partners, and transmission is often accomplished that way. There's also a fairly pervasive problem with sexual violence. Women tend to bear a lot of the pain.

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Re: Is the end of AIDS in sight?

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Post by PH95VuimJjqBqy »

at_a_remove wrote: post #25
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #19

As a gay man well into middle age, whenever I get somewhat depressed about the state of human affairs, I think about the incredible improvements in AIDS treatment and prevention and I feel a little better. It's hard for people who didn't live through it to really understand what a terrifying time the 80s and 90s were. First off, the general message of sexual education was pretty much "If you have sex, it's probably g…

I often mention the whole Gen X trauma thing. Part of it is literally seeing the ladder being pulled up just as we reached for it. Not just for jobs or college tuition, but also sexually -- the previous generation had a pretty good time and the worst that was on offer was herpes. Puberty starts rumbling around and we're wondering what the future looks like and suddenly "GRID." And we were flailing around, is it viral…

I'm Gen X and I don't agree with this at all.

There's this idea that every generation bitches about the generation that comes after it, but I submit to you that every generation apparently also has people in it that see themselves as a special victim, as if the generations that came before it didn't also have their own challenges.

Re: Is the end of AIDS in sight?

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

PH95VuimJjqBqy wrote: post #142
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #123

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The article mentions that women are afraid to take prophylactic treatments, because their husbands/boyfriends will take umbrage. It's not uncommon for men to have multiple sexual partners, and transmission is often accomplished that way. There's also a fairly pervasive problem with sexual violence. Women tend to bear a lot of the pain.

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Whut?

ChatGPT, is that you?

Re: Is the end of AIDS in sight?

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Post by PH95VuimJjqBqy »

foldr wrote: post #49
TZubiri wrote: post #31

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Aids is definitely the strongest sexually transmitted virus out there. But don't you think that there will always be sexually transmitted diseases associated with promiscuity? Not to say that aids is only transmitted through promiscuity, but superspreading is highly relevant. It is my understanding that gay people have more sex partners than than straight people, so it's likely that these diseases will disproportiona…

>I think that limiting amount of partners is a vital part to combating sexually transmitted diseases It's much more important to have safe sex. Condoms and PrEP work. Every thread on HN about HIV/AIDS seems to attract at least one person who feels obliged to say something about how promiscuous gay people are. I don't think these comments often come from a good place. (For example, you have previously made a rather in…

The reality is that they are generally more promiscuous and generally under worse circumstances.

This is a statement of fact, please stop mistaking it as a moral judgement that we need to fight against. You cannot help mitigate or solve a problem without accepting reality.

Re: Is the end of AIDS in sight?

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Post by PH95VuimJjqBqy »

chimeracoder wrote: post #78
foldr wrote: post #49

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>I think that limiting amount of partners is a vital part to combating sexually transmitted diseases It's much more important to have safe sex. Condoms and PrEP work. Every thread on HN about HIV/AIDS seems to attract at least one person who feels obliged to say something about how promiscuous gay people are. I don't think these comments often come from a good place. (For example, you have previously made a rather in…

> Every thread on HN about HIV/AIDS seems to attract at least one person who feels obliged to say something about how promiscuous gay people are. I don't think these comments often come from a good place. Just the one? If only. Every time there is a story on HN that is even tangentially related to either HIV or LGBTQ+ sexual health, it inevitably devolves into a morass of misinformation and thinly-veiled homophobia.…

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Re: Is the end of AIDS in sight?

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Post by foldr »

PH95VuimJjqBqy wrote: post #146
chimeracoder wrote: post #78

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> Every thread on HN about HIV/AIDS seems to attract at least one person who feels obliged to say something about how promiscuous gay people are. I don't think these comments often come from a good place. Just the one? If only. Every time there is a story on HN that is even tangentially related to either HIV or LGBTQ+ sexual health, it inevitably devolves into a morass of misinformation and thinly-veiled homophobia.…

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Knowing what public health professionals think about this topic is pretty much table stakes for being able to make any sensible kind of contribution to the discussion. Otherwise it is like arguing the finer points of Rust lifetimes with people who couldn’t write ‘Hello World’ in Python.

In this case I think the relevant position is widely known. Supporting people to have safe sex works, whereas shaming them for having more than some vaguely specified maximum number of acceptable sexual partners does not work.

Re: Is the end of AIDS in sight?

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Post by sundaeofshock »

elzbardico wrote: post #119
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #97

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> but my guess is that it would never spread there because there's more protection mechanisms, respiratory is like a process running unprivileged on an open port 80. Genital is port 22 and anal-genital is rdp or teamviewer with admin privileges on a server. Dude, considering we're not even done yet with a worldwide pandemic caused by a deadly respiratory virus, I'd probably stop with the bad analogies.

Covid is not remarkably deadly. How long will people insist it is? Don’t they teach history in the US?

In 2022, Covid was the fourth leading cause of death in the US.

1.https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7218a3.htm

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