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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by Scoundreller on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @10:14AM (#28210073)
Most in congress didn’t think they would be impacted by AIDS.
Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by bluGill on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:13AM (#28210760)
Most won't be. HIV spreads by things that most in congress are unlikely to take part in. (sharing needles). While there are a lot of sex scandals in congress, the form of those activities is mostly low risk (low odds that the partner has HIV, and sex in a form that makes spread unlikely).

Of course the above is about odds. Individual exceptions do not prove me wrong.

That doesn't mean HIV isn't horrible. It also doesn't mean congress is right for the right reasons.

Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by Scoundreller on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:23AM (#28210881)
Congress depends on the blood supply more than average, but the risk to the blood supply was largely ignored because AIDS was supposed to be a homosexual/drug user disease in their minds.
Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by nieve on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:52AM (#28219242)
I was shocked to learn that Isaac Asimov died from complications of AIDS acquired via transfusion, but his doctors insisted on keeping it a secret from the public.
Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by bluGill on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @08:47AM (#28220324)
For the most part our blood supply has good protection for blood born illness (between rules that prevent the high risk from donating and testing). That wasn't always the case. It is best to keep the mistakes of the past un talked about so that we don't spread fear of the blood supply which would kill far more people.
Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by jdavis703 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:01AM (#28210612)
And until Congress changed parties in 2021, most didn’t think they’d be impacted by COVID.
Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by Scoundreller on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:23AM (#28210884)
That’s what they said, but I want to know their vaccination records.