Lovers & Friends: New HIV Strain Put Strain On Jump Off
So, with the new HIV super-strain going around, its got me wondering -Is it even safe to jump off anymore? Seriously. A guy in NYC died just 2 months after contracting the HIV virus. A process that can often take up to 10 years before you develop the full-blown disease AIDS, this guy got it in just 2 months! And the bug is resistant to most of the anti-virol drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS. Aww, hell nah! I can't even look at a dude without getting the heevie jeevies.
“Last year, The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that approximately 40,000 new HIV infections occur each year. Of these newly infected people, half are younger than 25 years of age. Of newly infected men, they found that 50% were Black, and 20% Hispanic. Of newly infected women, about 64% were Black and 18% Hispanic.”
My biggest fear is that history will repeat itself. When AIDS first rolled around in the early 80s, the government, the press, and the public ignored it. It was a gay men’s disease. Now, 20 years later, we’re treating this new strain the same way. At first, public health officials told every sexually active person to get tested. Hours later, they said that gay males were the ones at risk (sounds remarkably familiar?). Granted the guy did have unprotected, drug-fuelled sex with hundreds of other gay men -its still wrong to assume that gays are the only ones at risk. Hello, didn’t J.L. King teach us anything about the down low brothers?
We're all a bunch of hedonistic butt plugs, so it’s a matter of time before we see new cases pop up across all demographics.
Say what you want, but forget wrapping it up, I’m just calling it a wrap.