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Amazing. Hopefully this leads to eradicating HIV for good.
Have you seen gestures broadly?
Yeah, I'm getting jaded as I get older. The optimist in me recognizes how ground breaking this is, and thinks there's a real possibility of actually eradicating AIDS. The pessimist in me remembers covid.
if PrEP had been invented 25 years ago it would be banned
we've come a long way
Haha, nicely put
If there's profit to be made treating HIV/AIDS symptoms without curing, the profit motive health industry won't like this. Solve the problem, their profits go away.
I mean why do we eradicate any diseases if there is profit involved?
We can speculate very easily.
There's a trade-off, cost-benefit analysys. If a disease is so catastrophic that it kills everyone fast, well you're not gonna make profit off them ever, because they die. Cure this one.
What about diseases that can be controlled somewhat, and only affect small amounts of the population? What if for them to stay alive they have to stay on a regular concoction of expensive pharmaceuticals either forever or for a long time? And they can still go to work? Why cure this, out of altruism? That's not how capitalism works.
Let's just say, for shits and giggles, we could cure immediately the common cold and mild influenza, forever. No more cough and cold over the counter medicine needed, much less pain and fever reducers. Local pharmacies don't need to stock this stuff anymore. The companies that produce and sell these are all tied to wallstreet. Getting colds doesn't stop you from working (or buying/consuming). Shit, I work with "men" who are "tough" who never call out of work sick because "I'm not a pussy" (cultural hardwork ethic propaganda nonsense).
Etc., etc. You get my point.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.
Correct me if I'm wrong but you're not saying this is a good thing. Just that it is a thing.
Makes sense to me. But I concede that I'm ignorant of what diseases we have cured recently, and too tired to research it right now.
Yellow fever, cholera, mumps, polio, measles, and malaria were endemic in the US prior to their eradication. By "endemic" I mean children got them as often as chicken pox. They were almost unavoidable and killed millions.
Measles and mumps are making a comeback due to anti-vax losers, but the others are still gone.
The downvotes are meh, I've made similar comments that got more upvoted. Lemmy is a fickle beast and probably depends on the crowd at the time and their mood or the article or whatever.
You're correct, I was not saying this is good by any means. I want the profit motive removed from everything healthcare related. I was just giving an exaggerated simple example of how the capitalist profit motive could (and arguably does) work in some instances.
expensive pharmaceuticals
antiretroviral meds are getting very cheap though, so not sure if that is really a valid point anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_HIV_treatment
Then some other company will do it. Not all world is US and A. Is some areas like Europe the states would be more than happy to order those vaccines to treat their citizens. There’s demand made by public health organizations, there will be someone willing to join the race and eat that cake.
Please make this affordable in the U.S.
I have a feeling it won't be.
But then people might have sex without fear! That's bound to make baby Jesus cry!
40k per dose
Wonderful!
Republicans will work tirelessly to ban this in the U.S.
twice-yearly
I wonder why they went with that, instead of saying bi-annually
Is biannual twice yearly or every two years?
If you look it up, it’s both. IMO all these words are useless. Biweekly, bimonthly, etc.
Instead of biweekly I specify fortnightly. Is there a bimonthly equivalent? Fortweekly?
We should make it a thing. Let's regroup in a fortweek and see how we're getting on.
It's a date.
If you use the word fortnight, it's likely you aren't from North America.
I am American, but I won't use biweekly because it is ambiguous.
I think it's trended to mean every 2. The original commentator wants chaos.
Bi-annually has the problem that it can mean twice a year or every two years.
That would be semi-annual
Yes. A bicycle has two wheels, a semicircle is half a circle. Biannual is two years, semiannual is half a year.
English isn't prescriptive, if enough people use it the wrong way then it becomes the right way.
Tell that to the prescriptivists.
It is clearer. What I learned at work is to write documents in high school language so that everyone can understand them.
For research studies you are unironically required to write consent forms so a middle schooler can understand them because that’s the average level of comprehension in the USA
Does bisexual mean twice per sexual or once every two sexual?
They could have gone with "every six months" too. I think any of them work, although as other say biannually can mean every two years as well, leading to confusion.
Bi has trended to mean every 2 weeks/months/years/etc.
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