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That makes it even cuter that you addressed the question to me. It
should make people wonder why you bother to ask questions to which  you
don't want an answer.

Does the word troll mean anything to you?

Chris Noble

wilyretrovirus wrote...

That may apply to heterosexuals, but among gays it is fashionable to select
sex partners from other races.  It is not mandatory, but it fits in nicely
with the collective orthodoxy that all things are equal, including race
and sexual orientation.  Heterosexuals also cross the racial barrier, but
when white heteros do it with blacks the primary motive is to shock their
parents' sensibilities, not that they have any true affection for the negro
they are doing it with.  It's usually rebellious daughters who bring home
the negro to in the hopes of giving her parents heart attacks.

wilyretrovirus wrote...

Now this will probably sound racist but I'm not trying to be.  Imagine the
SIV virus and how it was attuned to non-human primates like monkeys.  At
some point it leapt from monkey to human; for countless exposures over the
centuries it only crossed the species barrier a number of times.  Not to
say that Africans are monkeys, but when a non-human virus infects humans it
is because there is some genetic similarity - some particular protein or
sugar receptor on cells that allows the alien virus to attach and infect
the new host species.  So at some point an SIV virus mutates just right to
infect a human, and the human's cell receptors the virus latches onto
might vary according to regional ethnic differences, therefore while a
formerly non-human virus may infect humans of all ethnicities, some ethnic
groups may have a slight genetic variation that makes the virus prefer them
over another.  Conversely, a genetic mutatation among white caucasians has
been found that confers resistance to HIV; people with one copy of the
mutant gene have partial resistance while people with two copies seem to
have total resistance.  Oh, and of course the classic example of ethnic
disease susceptibility (something the PC left loves to use) is smallpox, in
which the evil Europeans who were resistant to smallpox (generations of
exposure left it an unpleasant but usually survivable disease) on the poor
innocent Indians who had no natural immunity.

I should mention I watched "The Origin of AIDS" on Sundance yesterday and
it described the apparent polio connection.  Evidence suggest that it is
possible that some batches of polio vaccine in the 1950s were contaminated
during production which involved incubating the polio virus in monkey
kidney cells.  I'm always skeptical, but they did make a good case,
especially with that graph that charted locations of vaccine stations and
locations of initial recognized AIDS outbreaks, they lined up very well.

And what may seem to be a tendency for Africans to be extra-prone to HIV,
well remember that France jumped into the colony game late, so while
England, Spain, and even Portugal and Holland got some nice territory,
France was stuck with Africa.  To this day France maintains some connection
to its former colonies, and coincidentally they are all severe hotbeds of
AIDS.  Even Haiti was a former French colony and of course was among the
initial outbreak of AIDS in the early-1980s.

And it could be both, not only are people of African descent more prone to
HIV infection (as evidenced by the severe heterosexual epidemic not
observed in the West), the fact that most African countries were part of
the French polio vaccination program means that the continent was infected
extensively and rapidly.  But even in the USA with little connection at
all to France and Africa, HIV is most prevalent among blacks.
AFAIK, everyone in the USA received the same type of polio vaccine, so
something else must account for the high African infection rate.

Huh?  I said HIV doesn't seem very transmissable from female to male.  But
any male or female who contracts the HIV virus will come down with AIDS.
That the virus is easier to transmit in some ways than others does not change
the fact that it is 100% fatal when it is successfully transmitted.

Perhaps you're a fan of the environmental hypothesis, that the illusion of
person-to-person transmission is caused by some unknown toxin that for
some reason no one except homosexual men and people of African descent come
into contact with.  I suppose the vector trace showing 100 men catching HIV
after patronizing the glory hole at the Crisco Disco is not due to the
HIV+ dude giving bl.wj.bs, but rather some toxin in the bathroom stall -
perhaps the toilet boil cleaner or maybe even the dioxin in the disposable
paper seat covers.