RE: Bachmann Can't Pony Up
September 26, 2011 at 8:54 am
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2011 at 9:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Again, the reason I mentioned Influenza and HIV is precisely because they were once "easily preventable". Even with modern anti viral treatments resistant mutations often appear within weeks or months of beginning treatment. That's the point of hitting hard and fast while you have something nailed down. We've eradicated a grand total of two viral diseases in all of human history. One of them wasn't even a human disease (yet). Why not make a run for three? Did you know that there is currently no test for HPV in men? So, that clean bill of health from the pedigree papers you asked for means jack shit. HPV also infects areas not covered by condoms. The forms of HPV that cause cervical cancer do not cause genital warts, so Mr. Fabulous there is carrying a stealth wmd as far as your cervix is concerned. The only "easy way" to be sure you won't get HPV, is to not have sex, period. Not exactly easy..lol.
Or.....we could vaccinate our children down to the last man and drink a toast to number 3. Vaccinations do not work in the long run when people do not use them.
As far as the idea of "population control"; While epidemics may seem to serve this function it isn't exactly a built in function of some grand design of life. These things are opportunists and given the chance they absolutely would kill off every single thing on earth until they were all that was left. Not exactly a controlled measure. Nor is it desirable to allow them to even begin to do so. Perhaps the idea of being coerced into injecting yourself with something (despite the obvious benefits) is unsettling to your idea of rights, or freedom or whatever, but there have to be human beings alive to enjoy these ideals. If we have a practical concern that runs counter to our idealistic notions of "how things should be" we have to decide whether or not to fall on the sword don't we? What a ridiculous obituary for the human race;
Here lies the human race, who, in the name of freedom and "higher ideals", willfully facilitated their own extinction by epidemic in the year xxxx.
(my penis used to be very pretty Sae, I'm still quite taken with the little guy...lol. Unfortunate incident which likely began in the '60s in some icebound factory in the former Soviet Union.)
Or.....we could vaccinate our children down to the last man and drink a toast to number 3. Vaccinations do not work in the long run when people do not use them.
As far as the idea of "population control"; While epidemics may seem to serve this function it isn't exactly a built in function of some grand design of life. These things are opportunists and given the chance they absolutely would kill off every single thing on earth until they were all that was left. Not exactly a controlled measure. Nor is it desirable to allow them to even begin to do so. Perhaps the idea of being coerced into injecting yourself with something (despite the obvious benefits) is unsettling to your idea of rights, or freedom or whatever, but there have to be human beings alive to enjoy these ideals. If we have a practical concern that runs counter to our idealistic notions of "how things should be" we have to decide whether or not to fall on the sword don't we? What a ridiculous obituary for the human race;
Here lies the human race, who, in the name of freedom and "higher ideals", willfully facilitated their own extinction by epidemic in the year xxxx.
(my penis used to be very pretty Sae, I'm still quite taken with the little guy...lol. Unfortunate incident which likely began in the '60s in some icebound factory in the former Soviet Union.)
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