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Subject: Re: Another medical problem is...

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Duncan7

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Date Posted: 09:04:47 11/16/06 Thu
In reply to: DE 's message, "Another medical problem is..." on 15:26:48 11/15/06 Wed

Our numbers will continue to rise. The plague barely slowed us down. Unless something really rude happens (I don't think AIDS is it) they will continue to go up. I'll keep checkiing the pop clock and let you know if it ever goes down. It hasn't since I started looking at it.

>that Mainland China is not exactly forthcommming with
>AIDS numbers. For a long time they did not even
>officially admit that they had AIDS in their country.
>We just do not truly know the extent that AIDS has
>infected population of Mainland China. And the
>numbers that I was reading a few years back are
>extremely large and they were growing.
>
>This presents two sub problems.
>
>First off IF there is a major AIDS problem then
>Mainland China just might do absolutely nothing at all
>and in the process eliminate a bunch of hungry mouths
>to feed. IF IF IF mainland China were to let a couple
>of billion people just die a natural death via AIDS
>then the government would be much better off
>financially (fewer mouths to feed, etc)
>
>Second problem being the state of medicine in Mainland
>China. While probably adequate for general medical
>problems, the AIDS Epidemic means a major problem that
>requires a geared up state of the art medical care
>system. And I just do not see the state of medicine
>in Mainland China being capable of handling the
>ultimate massive amount of AIDS victims that will come
>weither they want to admit the numbers or not.
>
>I guess that I just cannot see any outcome on a global
>scale for the AIDS Pandemic having any other outcome
>other than massively huge amounts of death.

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