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Originally Posted by Ilow
Allright I have to step in here. This is a ridiculous statement, firstly because it is completely untrue, and secondly because it is appearing on a street racing thread. The "facts" are that millions of heterosexuals have died of AIDS of are living with HIV. It's difficult to argue that you're not going through life with "blinders" on when you make statements like this.
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Ok, perhaps I wasn't clear enough... Heterosexual, non-drug users. The facts are that there is much less risk to that group than the media would have had you believe. Compare people having heterosexual intercourse to those having homosexual intercourse, swappling needles, receiving blood, etc and you'll see they encompass a much smaller percentage than most would believe.
Actually, if I remained paranoid (along with so many others) like I was back in the 80s and 90s as opposed to finally realizing that the odds aren't that extreme that I would contract the disease, wouldn't that suggest I had blinders on? My eyes have been opened, my thoughts/fears changed... Atypical for someone with blinders on.
It was a statement of risk and overinflated hype. It was simply a point. Don't lie, BS and manipulate people and they'll be more likely to follow you.
http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/gsgenetica.htm
"The assumption that HIV would spread by heterosexual transmission was, to a limited extent, correct but predictions of similar spread of AIDS, as in the London Declaration of 1988, from the WHO (Mann, 1989; Sato, Chin & Mann, 1989) and by the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (1990) were numerically exaggerated (Table 1), as were actuarial and other projections used for planning and estimates of spread outside the original risk groups of homosexual men and drug addicts. They were particularly wrong (Table 2) in the prediction that heterosexual transmission of AIDS in the general population would give rise to a general epidemic (Anderson & May, 1987; Public Health Laboratory Service, 1990)."
Have I made my point yet? Don't argue with me just to argue...