AIDS

[jporter]

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>From:   Jules Siegel[SMTP:jsiegel at mail.caribe.net.mx]
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>HIV is a symptom not a cause,
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>>>>>>This clause alone  shows Siegel doesn't know shit
>about disease or disease control.
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>                       .

Not singling Paul out here (or Dave or Jules) but I'd like to suggest,
before this inflammatory, semi-off topic "opinion virus" takes on a life of
its own, and overwhelms the listserver, that you put a lid on it.

If any of you have HIV/AIDS, or have cared for hundreds of people with
AIDS- confronted them, comforted them, befriended them, cleaned them up,
sat with them and their families, helped them to decide whether or not to
take a horribly inadequate stew of available pseudo cures, or watched
helpless as they slowly got eaten away by their own "normal flora", and
finally had to sign another death certificate- so many that the names all
run together for me now, well then I'd be glad to have a conversation with
you, more approporiately off list.

Otherwise, whatever angst anyone else might be feeling over AIDS, or
whatever interests one might have in publicizing the issues surrounding its
horrors, from the individual virion to the epidemiological, I suggest that
you make use of this forum politely and quickly, and point the follow-up
discussion toward more appropriate forums which exist in numerous other
locations around the net.

jody