Comments on: The risk of gay sex http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/01/15/the-risk-of-gay-sex/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:30:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/01/15/the-risk-of-gay-sex/#comment-18897 Bookworm Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:54:39 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2360#comment-18897 You're right, Deana -- it is very important. I'm a committed hand washer since, even as a child, I liked the feeling of clean, not sticky, hands. The children are a bit harder to control, and I don't want to inculcate neurosis, but I do require that they wash their hands well when they come into the house. You’re right, Deana — it is very important. I’m a committed hand washer since, even as a child, I liked the feeling of clean, not sticky, hands. The children are a bit harder to control, and I don’t want to inculcate neurosis, but I do require that they wash their hands well when they come into the house.

]]> By: Deana http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/01/15/the-risk-of-gay-sex/#comment-18898 Deana Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:24:08 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2360#comment-18898 In nursing, we deal with an increasing number of patients who have MRSA. In short, it is a pain because the patient has difficulty healing and the staff must first gown up and then put gloves on before we can even enter the room. As you can imagine, that means it takes longer for nurses to get to the patient . . . As the article states, MRSA is also being seen out in the communities. And although I am sure this article is accurate, it is NOT just a condition acquired only by homosexuals or people who do not practice good hygiene. It's out there. The VERY BEST thing you can do to protect yourself is WASH YOUR HANDS! Please be mindful of HOW you wash your hands: many people just rub their palms together. Instead, rub all surfaces of your hands together. (Pretend the soap is butter that you are trying to coat your hands with before working with sticky dough in the kitchen.) The area that is frequently missed by handwashers? The thumbs. Sorry for the lecture - but this is really important. In nursing, we deal with an increasing number of patients who have MRSA. In short, it is a pain because the patient has difficulty healing and the staff must first gown up and then put gloves on before we can even enter the room. As you can imagine, that means it takes longer for nurses to get to the patient . . .

As the article states, MRSA is also being seen out in the communities. And although I am sure this article is accurate, it is NOT just a condition acquired only by homosexuals or people who do not practice good hygiene. It’s out there.

The VERY BEST thing you can do to protect yourself is WASH YOUR HANDS!

Please be mindful of HOW you wash your hands: many people just rub their palms together. Instead, rub all surfaces of your hands together. (Pretend the soap is butter that you are trying to coat your hands with before working with sticky dough in the kitchen.)

The area that is frequently missed by handwashers? The thumbs.

Sorry for the lecture - but this is really important.

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]]> By: Earl http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/01/15/the-risk-of-gay-sex/#comment-18902 Earl Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:47:13 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2360#comment-18902 AIDS is an acronym for "Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome". This means it is not a "disease", in the classical sense. Unlike tuberculosis, you don't get a bug and then come down with a particular set of standard manifestations. Instead, your immune system fails, and you die of any one of about 30 standard diseases, present (and often deadly) in regular people who are not "HIV-positive". This may seem pedantic, but if we wish to stop AIDS, we need to keep it firmly in mind. AIDS (Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome) has been known for a long long time....I have vivid memories of my grandfather, who began his medical career long before the era of antibiotics, telling about "winos" with pneumonia who simply couldn't fight it off. He said that their defenses had been depleted by malnutrition (they bought alcohol, not food), so that almost any infection was enough to carry them off. AIDS (see definition above) is known to have a number of causes - besides malnutrition, there is heavy antibiotic use, multiple infections over a period of time, multiple blood transfusions, use of drugs, extreme physical stress, etc. If people assume that it's only caused by a virus, and put their hope in "safe sex" while continuing all their immune- destructive activities and counting on a vaccine or medication to save them, then a lot more folks are going to die. That AIDS is sexually transmitted is a given in our society, but even this hypothesis is actually rather poorly supported by the data. For those whose minds are open to explore a little, multiple lines of evidence are presented, in a non-technical manner, here: http://www.suppressedscience.net/aids.html Any single one of these anomalous findings might be dismissed, but all of them together would seem to demand a bit of investigation......investigation that is not only not being done, but cannot even be contemplated in the current medico/political environment. Like Global Warming, the history of HIV/AIDS science is going to make interesting reading in 20 years or so. AIDS is an acronym for “Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome”. This means it is not a “disease”, in the classical sense. Unlike tuberculosis, you don’t get a bug and then come down with a particular set of standard manifestations. Instead, your immune system fails, and you die of any one of about 30 standard diseases, present (and often deadly) in regular people who are not “HIV-positive”.

This may seem pedantic, but if we wish to stop AIDS, we need to keep it firmly in mind. AIDS (Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome) has been known for a long long time….I have vivid memories of my grandfather, who began his medical career long before the era of antibiotics, telling about “winos” with pneumonia who simply couldn’t fight it off. He said that their defenses had been depleted by malnutrition (they bought alcohol, not food), so that almost any infection was enough to carry them off.

AIDS (see definition above) is known to have a number of causes - besides malnutrition, there is heavy antibiotic use, multiple infections over a period of time, multiple blood transfusions, use of drugs, extreme physical stress, etc. If people assume that it’s only caused by a virus, and put their hope in “safe sex” while continuing all their immune- destructive activities and counting on a vaccine or medication to save them, then a lot more folks are going to die.

That AIDS is sexually transmitted is a given in our society, but even this hypothesis is actually rather poorly supported by the data. For those whose minds are open to explore a little, multiple lines of evidence are presented, in a non-technical manner, here:
http://www.suppressedscience.net/aids.html

Any single one of these anomalous findings might be dismissed, but all of them together would seem to demand a bit of investigation……investigation that is not only not being done, but cannot even be contemplated in the current medico/political environment.

Like Global Warming, the history of HIV/AIDS science is going to make interesting reading in 20 years or so.

]]> By: Terah Davis http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/01/15/the-risk-of-gay-sex/#comment-18901 Terah Davis Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:16:44 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2360#comment-18901 I completely agree with your stance. At the risk of sounding cliché, we can learn from the past, or be destined to repeat it. MRSA can be (somewhat) kept in check if we do all we can to protect ourselves. I have a sincere hope that we not only learned from the past, but that we have enough sense to rise above dated notions and actually take appropriate actions this time. I completely agree with your stance. At the risk of sounding cliché, we can learn from the past, or be destined to repeat it. MRSA can be (somewhat) kept in check if we do all we can to protect ourselves.

I have a sincere hope that we not only learned from the past, but that we have enough sense to rise above dated notions and actually take appropriate actions this time.

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