According to social justice warriors, AIDS is not caused by “high-risk behavior.” Instead, it’s caused by racism and homophobia.
Apparently, people on the radical left think that racists like David Duke are running around injecting black men with HIV.
American Progress writes: (the boldng is mine)
https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2012/07/pdf/hiv_community_of_color.pdf
African Americans, who make up only 14 percent of the U.S. population, make up 44 percent of the HIV-positive population…
Men who have sex with men represent 2 percent of the U.S. population but account for 61 percent of all new HIV infections…
… the racial HIV gap and the racial health gap in general, is strongly correlated with… historical and contemporary processes of segregation in housing, education, employment, and health care…
The high rates of HIV/AIDS we see among communities of color are not the result of high-risk behavior in these communities, but structural inequalities…
Massachusetts government forces health insurance companies to pay for drug that costs $24,000 a year so gay men won’t have to wear condoms
I’m a libertarian. I don’t care what consenting gay adults do in the privacy of their own home.
But I do care about spiraling health care costs that, for decades, have been growing substantially faster than the rate of inflation.
There’s already a very low cost way for sexually active gay men to substantially reduce their risk of contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The Centers for Disease Control states:
When used the right way every time, condoms are highly effective in preventing HIV
But there’s a problem – at least to the people who work in the Medical Industrial Complex and make their living off of overinflated health care costs: condoms are very inexpensive. And low cost health care is the enemy of the Medical Industrial Complex.
To deal with this “problem” of low cost health care, the Massachusetts government has ordered insurance companies to pay for a drug called Truvada.
Truvada is a drug that sexually active gay men who don’t have HIV can take, which substantially reduces their risk of contracting HIV, even if they don’t wear a condom. It costs $24,000 a year.
So now, the very same Centers for Disease Control that says inexpensive condoms “are highly effective in preventing HIV,” is also saying that healthy, sexually active gay men who do not have HIV should switch to Truvada, which costs $24,000 a year.
The New York Times reports:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urges men and women at risk for H.I.V. infection to take Truvada daily. Studies have shown the drug to be extremely effective at blocking the virus…
… 80 percent of people who take Truvada are gay men
Given that the CDC already says inexpensive condoms are “highly effective in preventing HIV,” it’s absurd that the very same CDC is now urging people to switch to a drug that costs $24,000 a year.
Clearly, the CDC, as well as the government of Massachusetts, are both aligned with the Medical Industrial Complex, whose goal is to make health care more expensive, not less expensive.
Knowingly exposing others to HIV will no longer be a felony in California
Knowingly exposing others to HIV will no longer be a felony in California
October 6, 2017
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday that lowers from a felony to a misdemeanor the crime of knowingly exposing a sexual partner to HIV without disclosing the infection.
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Consumer Reports gave Planned Parenthood’s condoms the worst possible score for both “strength” and “durability”
Consumer Reports’ ratings use a scale one to five.
In the February 2005 print issue, they tested condoms for two different categories: “strength” and “durability.”
The condoms called “Planned Parenthood Honeydew” received the worst possible score in both of these categories.
The text of the article can be read here.
The ratings for the different brands of condoms can be seen here.
Justine Sacco was fired because she told the politically incorrect, accurate truth about AIDS
A company called InterActiveCorp just fired empoyee Justine Sacco because she tweeted the following:
“Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”
Before Sacco made that tweet, The New York Times reported:
“The rate of AIDS among black women is 27 times the rate among white women.”
This is precisely why math is the most politically incorrect academic subject. No matter how much the radical left wants to see “racism” where none exists – no matter how much they claim to be “offended” when there is no rational reason to be offended – no matter how many temper tantrums they throw – you can’t argue against the math. The math will always win.
If the radical left insists on about getting mad at someone for the AIDS problem, they have chosen the wrong target. It’s not Sacco’s fault that anyone has AIDS. If the radical left really wants to get mad at someone over the AIDS problem, then why don’t they get mad at the people who are actually spreading AIDS?
New York Civil Liberties Union says Obamacare violates patients’ right to sexual privacy
Obamacare requires doctors to ask patients personal questions about their sex lives, and to put their answers into an electronic database. Doctors who avoid doing this will be penalized.
Dr. Adam Budzikowski, a New York cardiologist, said these sex question were “insensitive, stupid and very intrusive,” and that he could not think of any reason why a cardiologist would need such information.
Dr. Richard Amerling, an associate professor of medicine at Albert Einstein Medical College, said that a patient’s medical record should be “a story created by you and your doctor solely for your treatment and benefit,” and that Obamacare turns doctor appointments “into an interrogation, and the data will not be confidential.”
The New York Civil Liberties Union said that these requirements were a violation of patients’ privacy.
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