Author Topic: HAHAHAH HIV positive muppet to be introduced (Read 781 times)

straffo · « **Reply #15 on:** July 12, 2002, 09:05:20 AM »

Well you said ... a lot

Hortlund · « **Reply #16 on:** July 12, 2002, 09:06:45 AM »

straffo · « **Reply #17 on:** July 12, 2002, 09:07:04 AM »

and giving the absence of health system in almost (if not all) all africa it's likely to see a desease spreading really fast in those country ...

Gadfly · « **Reply #18 on:** July 12, 2002, 09:52:48 AM »

http://www.avert.org/origins.htm

Animal · « **Reply #19 on:** July 12, 2002, 09:53:51 AM »

The muppet is a girl. She should be named Aidy or something like that.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #20 on:** July 12, 2002, 09:56:28 AM »

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Originally posted by Gadfly
http://www.avert.org/origins.htm

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"We will probably never know exactly when and where the virus first emerged, but what is clear is that sometime in the middle of the 20th century, HIV infection in humans developed into the epidemic of disease around the world that we now refer to as AIDS.

StSanta · « **Reply #21 on:** July 12, 2002, 10:11:27 AM »

'Willie' is apretty good name.

I'd go for Aidsrian or HIV-larious

I mean, supposedly a positive character?

Gadfly · « **Reply #22 on:** July 12, 2002, 10:44:08 AM »

The thing about AIDS is that it is a disease that you can avoid with a 99.9% degree of certainty. That takes it from the realm of a true disease and into the realm of a behavioral problem.

Not a popular concept, but it can not be refuted, can it?

Of course, your behavioral choices CAN cause other innocents to be infected, re childbirth or malicous intent, but other than that, any given person can assure themselves of not dying from HIV.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #23 on:** July 12, 2002, 10:46:19 AM »

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Originally posted by Gadfly
The thing about AIDS is that it is a disease that you can avoid with a 99.9% degree of certainty. That takes it from the realm of a true disease and into the realm of a behavioral problem.

Not a popular concept, but it can not be refuted, can it?

Of course, your behavioral choices CAN cause other innocents to be infected, re childbirth or malicous intent, but other than that, any given person can assure themselves of not dying from HIV.

Only if you start your OWN blood bank/supply, and you can do this but it costs you. I agree with the rest of your post.

OZkansas · « **Reply #24 on:** July 12, 2002, 11:31:35 AM »

Hmmmmmmm, Ya, know we haven't heard much about HIV and AIDS in say the last 10 years. I wonder why all of a sudden it has become a front page issue? I see ads on TV now that we weren't shown for years,but all of a sudden, bingo, HIV!! AIDS!!

Now in a kids show too. I hadn't heard much about HIV and AIDS even from the special interest groups.

What has all of sudden changed????

Corwin · « **Reply #25 on:** July 12, 2002, 11:35:45 AM »

I'm no tree hugger but did you guys catch any of the news from the World Health Organizations recently concluded aids meeting? There were projections offered (sorry I don't remember the exact numbers) that based on the current rate that aids is spreading in South Africa that within the next couple of decades there will be tens of millions of children orphaned by aids. Further I have read horrible stories about child and even infant gang rapes down there because there is a belief that HIV postive males can rid themsleves of the disease by having sex with a virgin.

We may be missing the point folks.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #26 on:** July 12, 2002, 11:35:58 AM »

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Originally posted by OZkansas
Hmmmmmmm, Ya, know we haven't heard much about HIV and AIDS in say the last 10 years. I wonder why all of a sudden it has become a front page issue? I see ads on TV now that we weren't shown for years,but all of a sudden, bingo, HIV!! AIDS!!

Now in a kids show too. I hadn't heard much about HIV and AIDS even from the special interest groups.

What has all of sudden changed????

Hehe, you know the answer....ELECTIONS, soon to follow: "Bush is why the economy sucks!"

OZkansas · « **Reply #27 on:** July 12, 2002, 12:05:47 PM »

StSanta · « **Reply #28 on:** July 12, 2002, 12:50:59 PM »

No, there are several reasons we see more about AIDS now.

First of all, there's a conference, or was, just a few days back. Then, a new vaccine that works on some strains.

More importantly, we're now finding out that the suppresants we've used so effectively that someone infected with HIV was more likely to die of old age than AIDS are failing. The virus is becoming immune to it.

In addition, the problem has grown temendously in Africa. In some countries, 40% of the population are infected. The future problems this will cause are likely civil wars and so forth, ebyond the orphaning of (infected) children and untold suffering.

And HIV infections are suddenly on the rise again in the Western world.

I agree that it's more of a behavioral problem than a true epidemic - in the Western world. In Africa, due to lack of funds (and thus medicine), lack of education and *culture*, it truly is an epidemic gone crazy.

I think we'll find a vaccine within the next 50 years. But much can happen until then.

Raider · « **Reply #29 on:** July 12, 2002, 02:00:32 PM »

I'm no Miss Cleo but I see a huge epidemic coming.

It's hard to stay away from needles when your a puppet.