unclehobart
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Thats why we have all of these new designer drugs that make life a constant tolerable ho-hum uninspired shade of grey 24/7... prozac, wellbutrin...
Scientists say that the recently discovered AIDS "superbug" could be the beginning of a new cycle of deadly AIDS infections.
If so, one is left with the gloomy thought that while technology tends to be linear, human nature is cyclical. Moreover, people, in their diversity and perversity, can always defeat the soundest schemes of science.
"We've identified this strain of HIV that is difficult or impossible to treat," said New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden earlier this month.
Similar words were spoken a quarter century ago, when the original HIV/AIDS virus was discovered in its relentless lethality.
Back then, at-risk populations didn't seem to care about a disease that was killing them. Those on the sexual frontier seemed more worried about defending their freedom than defending their lives.
Moreover, amid a fog of early confusion about the cause of AIDS -- were "poppers," recreational drugs from the nitrate family, part of the problem? -- sex-ideologues denied mortal reality throughout the '80s.
Now it's another drug, crystal meth, that might be worsening the problem.
Most of those don't-worry-be-happy voices from the '80s have fallen silent, for the simple reason that they are now dead. Yet similar voices of public-health obfuscation are being heard again today.