Gam248: Plandemic
Added 2020-05-18 16:20:48 +0000 UTCMarsh joins us this week to rebut and debunk one of the deadliest movies we've ever had the displeasure of reviewing.
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About Fauci and HIV: Did he make mistakes? Of course. Was he less progressive than I would have liked on, say, his approach to the health of sex workers? Yes, absolutely. Did he push condoms as much as he should have? No, he did not. But he was the architect of something truly incredible. George W. Bush asked Fauci what could be done to help stop the spread of HIV in subsaharan Africa, specifically from mothers to newborn infants. That was a pretty manageable goal. That was the philanthropic goal of the time - to keep the outbreak from infecting more people. A good goal, obviously, and one we could definitely work toward. But Fauci pushed for something different: in addition to GWB's goals, he wanted treatment for the infected, to maximize their lifespans. This was an incredibly ambitious target. Antiretroviral drugs were expensive and he would be bargaining with drug companies with basically no leverage. At the time, there were no once-a-day pills. Instead, you had a cocktail of drugs that had to be taken at precise times. For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that extremely poor people just couldn't follow the regimen. They lacked education. It was a complicated regimen - you had to take one pill every 8 hours, another every 6, and so on. And if you took only part of the cocktail or failed to follow the timing, you could breed resistant strains. Infrastructure was a problem for distribution - there were lots of counterfeits and it was hard to be sure if your medicines would get to the people who needed them. Electricity was intermittent making setting an alarm or even reading a clock difficult. Fauci looked at all of that and proposed a plan that cost more than 14x more than what Bush had originally set aside. (To his credit, GWB was 100% on board.) It was called President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and it brought antiretroviral drugs to the poor in subsaharan Africa. Because of it AIDS-related deaths dropped by >10% in participating countries. I'm certainly not saying it was perfect, but damn. Fauci saw an impossible problem and set out to do his damnedest to solve it. And beyond that, he really valued extending the lives of Africans with HIV, not just preventing new infections. So the thought of these people going after Fauci on HIV pisses me off so damn much.
Stormy Decisis
2020-05-21 00:04:58 +0000 UTCCan you guys please set up another link to youe Gods not dead song parody because the Cdbaby access ended a couple of months ago and i saw some people that are still interested in downloading it.
Zeronian Entity
2020-05-20 18:49:27 +0000 UTC
