Life is Nasty, Brutish, and Short.
Sep. 2nd, 2005 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
c9Thomas Hobbes wrote that life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." In today's Globe & Mail, Doug Saunders writes about what happens when society's net snaps. Interesting to read.
One complaint I had: he says that "the charitable activity that has all but ended the AIDS crisis in the United States." Not maliciously meant I'm sure, but still.
One complaint I had: he says that "the charitable activity that has all but ended the AIDS crisis in the United States." Not maliciously meant I'm sure, but still.
Doug Saunders writes, as an afterthought, of "the charitable activity that has all but ended the AIDS crisis in the United States." He's wrong.
New HIV infections are increasing among young men and women, straight and gay. Unprotected sex is increasing. People living with AIDS/HIV have to pay tens of thousands of dollars per year for drugs to stay alive, but millions in the US have no helialth insurance whatsoever.
The AIDS crisis isn't over. It's just that the media and Doug Saunders stopped paying attention, apparently.
Cameron MacLeod
