The "spectre" is due to activism. Like most folks I no more fear AIDS than I do uncurable brain cancer. Like most people, my odds of getting either are close to nil.
TB, on the other hand can and does infect perfectly normal people who happen to walk past third-worlders who have invaded the USA. People can and do catch TB competely unaware of how they received it, and completely unaware of what they could have done to avoid it... other than stay home all day.
And no, most of us do NOT know someone who has AIDS. On the other hand, most of us DO know many, many people with Alzheimers, with cancer, with rheumatoid arthritis and a host of other debilitating and often fatal diseases for which there is no cure or even effective treatment... and certainly diseases for which there are no fancy celebratory Broadway musicals.
The dollars spent on medical research and treatment for each AIDS fatality are massive compared to dozens of other fatal diseases that don't get the same activism.
The new treatments won't curtail most folks' behavior becuase the vast majority of people are not at risk from AIDS.
It "gets a lot of press" not because of "behavior curtailment", but because of activism.
Whether you are "monogamous" or not matters little. What matters is the massive number of contacts in small populations that guarantee the spread of AIDS. That bears the same relationship to "non-monogamous" that strategic nukes bers to "unfriendly".
You will be able to pay for it, of course. Just as you are paying for free medical care for 14 million illegals and tens of thousands of HIV infected barebackers, you will pay for the new propylactic use of anti-AIDS drugs.
And just like all the other anti-AIDS treatments over the last 25 years it will not stop the epidemic, only enable it to continue to spread unti lever larger numbers of people have it.
I ride motorcycles way too fast, and doubtless may die young, but at least I will die cheap, on my own tab and will leave at least some body parts for reuse.
Before you guys get your knickers in a knot, the things that have been published are just patent applications. They are not patents.
They have not even been examined by the PTO and they probably will not be examined (due to the current backlog) for three years or so.
In effect, all that has been published are the original patent application papers filed by Google 18 months ago.
They are not "held by" Google employees any more than Google employees "hold" the title to the Google campus. No, they are "held by" Google, I can assure you. They are "invented by" Google employees.
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And no, most of us do NOT know someone who has AIDS. On the other hand, most of us DO know many, many people with Alzheimers, with cancer, with rheumatoid arthritis and a host of other debilitating and often fatal diseases for which there is no cure or even effective treatment ... and certainly diseases for which there are no fancy celebratory Broadway musicals.
The dollars spent on medical research and treatment for each AIDS fatality are massive compared to dozens of other fatal diseases that don't get the same activism.
It "gets a lot of press" not because of "behavior curtailment", but because of activism.
Whether you are "monogamous" or not matters little. What matters is the massive number of contacts in small populations that guarantee the spread of AIDS. That bears the same relationship to "non-monogamous" that strategic nukes bers to "unfriendly".
And just like all the other anti-AIDS treatments over the last 25 years it will not stop the epidemic, only enable it to continue to spread unti lever larger numbers of people have it.
I ride motorcycles way too fast, and doubtless may die young, but at least I will die cheap, on my own tab and will leave at least some body parts for reuse.
They have not even been examined by the PTO and they probably will not be examined (due to the current backlog) for three years or so.
In effect, all that has been published are the original patent application papers filed by Google 18 months ago.
They are not "held by" Google employees any more than Google employees "hold" the title to the Google campus. No, they are "held by" Google, I can assure you. They are "invented by" Google employees.