December 1 was celebrated as World Aids Day.  The squeaky wheel got lubricated once again.  The HIV/AIDS disease has been around in the United States since the early 1980s.  The activists have been banging their drums for over 25 years in an attempt to gain more funding to combat what they call a worldwide pandemic.

          These alarmists assert that the rate of infection in the United States has reached the same rates as many poverty-stricken African nations. The nations that come to mind are Angola and Ethiopia, both poor African places.  Yet researchers have the gall to compare our rate of infection to places in Africa where people live in dirt hovels, have open ditch sewers, have no running water, no electricity and must walk wherever they want to go.  Their ignorance leads them to have sexual relations whenever the mood strikes them irrespective of common protections.  Yet they expect the rest of the world in general and the United States in particular to foot the bill for treatment and education.

          Here in America, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) attempted to show by trotting out stats that prove that the higher the level of poverty the higher the levels of HIV/Aids infection.  The CDC has said that AIDS has been found in 2.4% of those living at the poverty level.  The CDC has said that's twice the rate of the U. S. population in general.  So World AIDS Day is supposed to remind America how to manage this disease.  So poor people need the rest of us to pay for their  drugs and treatment.  Read that as more Federally-funded treatment centers.  Absent treatment or education, people will continue to spread the virus to their partners.

          There is a cure for HIV/AIDS--it's called abstinence.  It's about discontinuing risky behavior.  It's about stopping reckless behavior. It's about throwing money at a cure without condemning the behavior.  The AIDS Lobby would have you believe that America is overrun with AIDS.  In reality only about 0.3% of the American population has AIDS.  You'd think that AIDS is the leading cause of death in the U. S.  Actually it's Number 17.  The NIH spends more on AIDS research than on all cancers combined.  I got my information from the New England Journal of Medicine.

          The latest is a pill that can reduce risk by about 44%.  But it has very high side effects.

          Abstinence is still the best behavior to prevent AIDS.

MORE HOGWASH

          A new study recently published in the British Medical Journal (Lancet) said second-hand smoke kills more than 600K people worldwide. Scientists estimated, estimated mind you, that number which is around 1% of the world's death.  Of course, the World Health Organization had to chime in with their concern for the 165K children who are killed by second-hand smoke.

          It's always for the children.  That's the liberal mantra. Actually it's about control.