1. How could we persuade people who do not feel the least bit sick to get HIV tested every year?

2. How do we get people who test HIV positive to commit to and adhere to long-term potent combination antiretroviral therapy that may cause side effects and toxicities!

3. Who will pay the upfront costs of testing and treating vast numbers of people?

4. What will happen if many people start treatment, but are noncompliant? This could lead to increased drug-resistant strains of HIV.

We are dealing with humanity, not prisoners or battery hens.

I am genuinely LAUGHING OUT LOUD!

Grumpy, daft, and possibly piss*d or drugged, RobN declares that he is tired of explaining evolution to people on these pages!

It’s hysterical!

The mouth that has spouted the most extraordinary amount of juvenile twaddle suffused with acres of bigotry has announced that it is tired of “explaining” evolution!

As if it could actually ever grasp the principles of evolution in the first place!

A: A shopping trolley has a mind of it’s own.

I am seriously wasting my time trying to explain evolution to a bunch of people that still think they emerged from under a f_cking gooseberry bush.

That sort of cycle happens all the time, sometimes once a day, sometimes once a decade. I just think if I was a betting man, I’d say we were due for a turn…

You have said, “nature seems to redress the balance.”

“SEEMS”!

You have said, “like water finds it’s own level, so does life”.

“LIFE FINDS ITS OWN LEVEL”!

You have uttered statements of vague gibberish and gobbledegook, akin, I am afraid, to the hocus-pocus of homeopaths, occultists, religionists, and all other such irrationalists.

But if you wish to think that HIV is “Nature’s way” of looking after Planet Earth, then by all means you bow down, put your little bottom in the air, and worship the great and good HIV Virus!

And, hey, no need to use condoms when fu*k, RobN, because that would clearly be getting in the way of Nature’s good wishes!

We, the creatures you refer to, and every other living thing on this planet is ‘Nature’, you cretin. It doesn’t matter if it’s a prion or a f_cking elephant, if things go too far in one direction, nature seems to redress the balance.

You obviously don’t read my posts properly, or you would have read my statement “I don’t mean to say there is any conscious force at work here, but like water finds it’s own level, so does life.”

You appear not to have considered, like millions of others, that what happens time and again in nature is that populations of creatures thrive, explode, and get out of hand and then compromise themselves by polluting or exploiting their environments!

In other words, the destruction emanates from the behaviour of the creatures and not from some entirely unaccounted force that you have called “Nature”.

You don’t believe in homeopathy as well, do you?

I thought you think of yourself as a grounded realist, RobN.

Brian Williams’ “effectively stop” is as much a stop as the “functional cure” provided by current medications is a cure .. i.e. not at all.

I don’t mean to say there is any conscious force at work here, but like water finds it’s own level, so does life.

What? Nature thinks to itself, does it? Nature think it needs to control the population so it whips up a disease? You can’t get away with such nonsense by saying you don’t mean it in a “divine way”.

I don’t mean that in some “divine” way, but simply that in most enlarged populations of animals, some natural event will often wipe the majority out and allow them to start afresh. We might be advanced and supposedly civilised animals, but we are animals nonetheless.

With the combination of constantly mutating virii and bacteria, and people criss-crossing the globe daily, I suspect it’s not a matter of ‘if’, but ‘when’. Global pandemics are already major concerns with the like of Bird ‘flu and the recent Swine ‘flu, but it only needs the HIV virus to mutate the wrong way, and we could have millions infected. Only a few years back there was a lethal strain that had fused with Tuberculosis, and if the HIV virus were to become airborne, it could ultimately wipe out the entire human race.

Ain’t I ever the optimist?

I don’t like to be a pessimist, but it looks like “the snowball
is rolling downhill and getting more gigantic” every minute.

There’s going to have to be some sort of miracle (that I don’t see
anywhere) to stem this deadly problem.