Re: Matching reel and line/rod weights. What can one get away with?

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:28:20 GMT, "slenon"
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>
>Add to this the politics which erupted and delayed the treatment of HIV
>infection as a communicable disease, the failure of people everywhere to
>practice those actions which might lessen the impact of HIV, and suddenly a
>localized war, or two, becomes a minor reaper.


 Yes, the Great Communicator sure let his unthoughts
 be known about HIV, tho I notice that the right wing was 
 very unhappy that that might be presented on TV: history
 is being rewritten as we speak  :-)   
 But otherwise you are grossly generalizing and in the 
 process blaming the victim.  Speaking for the US, large 
 numbers of people most certainly did change their 
 sexual practices, reducing the transmission rate among 
 adults.  Teens are another story, but I highly suspect 
 that you were omnipotent in those days as well.
 Remember that HIV can be resident for a number of 
 years before manifesting itself via AIDS, so by the time 
 we understood what was going on, it was way too late 
 for a large number of people.  Among them were a good
 number of  hemophiliacs and survivors of operations: 
 their "practice" consisted of receiving blood transfusions.  
 Do you have an idea of what percentage of the hemo-
 philiacs in this country died of AIDS ?  And let's not forget
 that a lot of kids who have AIDS "practiced" nothing more 
 than making the mistake of being born to someone with 
 HIV.