i just sent an email to my old boss, who's encountering a lot of discouraging political hindrances over her HIV vaccine development. funny that i still think this way
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all i know is you didn't call me back and accept my scrabble challenge.
if you aren't doing anything, come over and watch both LOTR's with tim and i tomorrow. we're gonna start at like 11am to be done in time for the rotunda show.
unfortuantly, I see lots of bad developments by the elite in defending against HIV. It's scary how incompetant they are. This disease has the potential to fuck up a great deal of the human population of this earth if left to go unchecked.
It comes to the point where unless direct action, like ACT-UP does, is taken, little seems to get down except to shun people with the disease and blame them.
the thing is, it's easy to say we're losing the "war on AIDS," which i always see compared to the "war on crime" and the "war on terrorism," each politically and humanly disgusting in their own right. but science has developed to the point where a history of techniques and good ideas can be applied to emerging diseases, especially viral ones. there are tangible solutions that should be tried and tried again, but the bureaucracy that developed around science slows the process as people die in huge numbers. really HIV has already fulfilled its "potential to fuck up a great deal of the human population," and people look over to africa and cluck their tongues while pushing back against any progress that could prevent that potential from expanding further than it already has
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I get really scared some times when I think about the realities of who they say is being hit hardest by HIV and the fact that any one with out a shit load of money is screwed if they get it. With out direct action I could see alot of people (evil people) being a happy that HIV is around. We've all heard the fucked up saying "thank god for AIDS".
yeah, i think the viewpoint that AIDS is a blessing for rubbing out those goddamn gays/lesser races has subsided a lot. the prevalent perspective seems to view the crisis as a pitiable force that just happens to affect poor nations and people more. for the richwhitemen who bar antiretrovirals from entering the lives of most people who need them, direct action holds about as much sway as it does on any other of the various aspects of the planet they've fucked up. that is to say, it has some potential to change things that mustn't stay as they are. there should be continued loud, visible action and education. it just upsets me that something as fundamental as death and disease should be so hierarchical.
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all i know is you didn't call me back and accept my scrabble challenge.
if you aren't doing anything, come over and watch both LOTR's with tim and i tomorrow. we're gonna start at like 11am to be done in time for the rotunda show.
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It comes to the point where unless direct action, like ACT-UP does, is taken, little seems to get down except to shun people with the disease and blame them.
Shit's scary.
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for the richwhitemen who bar antiretrovirals from entering the lives of most people who need them, direct action holds about as much sway as it does on any other of the various aspects of the planet they've fucked up. that is to say, it has some potential to change things that mustn't stay as they are. there should be continued loud, visible action and education.
it just upsets me that something as fundamental as death and disease should be so hierarchical.
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