What is The Machine™

[BADGE OF HONOR]

HIV lives in white blood cells.  When that happens, the WBCs cease to function properly.  More HIV=fewer working WBCs=shitty immune system=death by secondary infection.

Infection requires a fairly high dose of the virus, so it's a delicate balance between keeping the host alive and replicating enough to create an infectious dose in blood or semen.

I forget sometimes that people don't know all the mechanics.

[Adrian]

AIDS=Anally Injected Death Sentence

[Triple Zero]

a backronym.. how clever! 

but what are you trying to say?

[B_M_W]

AIDS=Anally Injected Death Sentence

Really funny.


Homophobe.

[Cain]

Bumped to BIP forum.

[Mangrove]

AIDS=Anally Injected Death Sentence

wow...i'm old enough to remember when that joke was new.

[LMNO]

Wasn't funny back then, either.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I laughed, but then I was only about 14 at the time.

[Mangrove]

Wasn't funny back then, either.

did you guys get the carpet bombing of AIDS awareness ads in the US?

i just remember being a kid and seeing big scary icebergs floating around on tv that had AIDS carved on them.

the early 80's - when sex was..um.....'the terrorists'.

[AFK]

Definitely.  That was pretty much the impetus of the whole debate about sex education, handing out condoms in school, etc.  It was really scary for some so they wanted to make sure kids knew how to protect themselves, because kids will be kids and will have sex despite the parent's pleadings to abstain. 

But, the Christian right weren't scared enough and decided that was sending the wrong signals to the kids.

Which kind of seques to the debate in the present about the cervical cancer vaccine. 

But, yeah, there was definitely alot of PSA's and the like back in the 80s.  Now, it seems to have gone the other way where there's a perception that it isn't that big a deal anymore and that it's only Africa's problem.  Damned Short Attention Span Society that we live in. 

[Mangrove]

to paraphrase bill hicks:

"seems that the war on AIDS has taken a real fucking cease fire"

[AFK]

It's not funny because it is true.

I guess we need another celebrity to die of it before it becomes a "problem" again. 

[Mangrove]

so that i'm not being all threadjacky, is there any way that this discussion on AIDS be tied into the Machine theme?

[AFK]

Would it be safe to say that The Machine(tm) has a powerful affect on what is on the national and global agendas, if it doesn't outright control it?

[P3nT4gR4m]

Wasn't funny back then, either.

did you guys get the carpet bombing of AIDS awareness ads in the US?

i just remember being a kid and seeing big scary icebergs floating around on tv that had AIDS carved on them.

the early 80's - when sex was..um.....'the terrorists'.

Holy shit yeah. It scared me so much that, to this day, I've never been able to have a physical relationship with an iceberg.