15 Replies to “Flashblood”

  1. Kate, it makes perfct sense to someone who worships animals and the earth but has little regard for human life. I’m talking about guilt-ridden, Marxist educated white westerners you know.

  3. I wonder if our legal obligations extend as far as sending potential future customers some nice, new, blood-transfusion equipment. (Saskatchewan must have some they’re not using.) Do you think that might be construed as an attempt to promote the practice?

  5. The story reeks of naive lefty prejudices and pandering thereto, about Africa, addicts and everything else.

  7. This is a five-year old story.
    The researcher found five instances in 200 people she approached, a statistically-insignigicant occurence.
    Put this one in the category of mountain out of molehill.

  8. May we expect a flood of these addicts claiming refugee status soon because they are denied the “human right” of a safe injection site and free needles.
    A growth industry for Canada-yay.

  9. It seems to reflect the left’s pervasive belief that human beings should have an utterly unfettered right to engage in any sexual or hedonistic practice they want, with utter disregard for the plainly foreseeable adverse consequences and that every one but the participants has an equally unlimited obligation to bear the cost and effort required to clean up the perfectly predictable adverse results. Individual responsibility be damned. While conservatives at least make an attempt to direct their lives with their cerebral cortex, liberals are slaves to their limbic system — and proud of it!

  11. If the UN wishes to divert some of its monies from
    the salaries of its officials to the purchase of
    drugs for treatment of HIV, I would not object very
    much.

  13. Funny that the CMAJ story didn’t include the information that pharmaceutical companies have been giving drugs to African Leftist dictatorships for free or at-cost but government members have been reselling the drugs and pocketing the money themselves. Maybe Steven Lewis can investigate that?
    BTW, I wonder why these sorts of articles never mention Africa’s military expenditures, let alone presidential budgets? Another mystery.

  14. The NYTJ story contains this figment of someone’s imagination. “In most East African countries like Tanzania and Kenya, only 3 to 8 percent of adults are infected with the AIDS virus, far fewer than in southern Africa, where the rates reach 15 to 25 percent.”
    This quote from the Tanzania commission for Aids will set the record straight, “Although it is estimated that the prevalence of HIV infection among adult’s blood donors is 8.7%, the range varies from 5% to 20%. Regions mostly affected are Kagera, Iringa and Mbeya with a prevalence range of 15% to 20%, Dar es Salaam, Rukwa, Shinyanga and Mwanza with a prevalence range of 10% to 15% while Ruvuma, Kilimanjaro and Mtwara are in the prevalence range of 5% to 10%.”
    And I can tell you that many more people die at a young age from pneumonia and heart ailments than are reflected in a national adult infection rate of 8.7%. Just count the funerals of young people. Many people in the health industry there will tell you the true rate is in the high teens.
    Free drugs aren’t going to solve the problem – a massive cultural change is needed.
    And I wonder, does someone who is under treatment lose the ability to transmit the disease? Or is giving them the drugs just a way of extending the time during which they are able to transmit the disease, and if so, what is being done to prevent that?

  15. When is that damn Lewis family going to renounce their Canadian citizenship and go stew in their own tears… I think we pack enough guilt around, considering all the damage we have done,to the climate, Indians, metis, Japanese,(Komagato Maru,Sikhs,sp? ),Chinese,etc,and whoever else has their hand out,stop with it already…

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