Yes, people need ARVs, Yes, there are problems with delivery of health care, Yes you need to wear a condom and campaign for better service, but freedom of thought is a terrible burden and not worth sacrificing. The problem with the scientific paradigm (as related by the media) is that it presumes an ability to predict the outcome of events.

If one buys into science without freedom of thought, you end up in a psychotic world, filled with hazard, a 30seconds-to-midnight paranoid schizo hell in which nothing is real, nor ever curable, and considered safe.We may be as paranoid about TB and BIRD FLU as we are about AIDS, but only those open minded enough not to swollow the lies will avoid getting caught in a knot about Birds having sex, or TB sufferers having an absolute right to anonymity and privacy. I say make AIDS a notifiable disease and settle the problem of statistical analysis once and for all.

That way, we will all sleep a lot better, knowing that the stats haven’t been manipulated for political ends. That’s right, what we have right now is basically the same kind of bullshit you get at a riot, with the Police downplaying numbers and rioters exagerating crowds, in the expectation something can be gained from loading the bases on either perspective.

NOTE: I AM NOT AN AIDS DENIALIST AND HAVE NEVER DENIED THE EXISTENCE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.

Hope that sorts out the way I feel. As for that problem with Independent. After taking their word for it, I actually went looking for victims, and hospital wards overfilling with patients, only to find that most of them had been sent home with medication, and that ARVs actually worked, too my utter surprise. The story from a laymans perspective wasn’t considered worthwhile investigating further, and I was subjected to verbal abuse from Judith Soal, and discursive sanctions from Cape Times assistant editors, Colin Howel and Jen Crocker, and that was just for starters.

I had reason recently to be in touch with several people in different media, mostly print, and I was amazed to see that large newspapers have moved from being journos to merely information processors – receive all the crap running on the wires, internet, whatever and pick out what’s seems interesting and put in for print.

There is no judgement whatsoever. They don’t even care – just fill those damn blank pages.

I’m more and more convinced that it’s becoming an industry with no soul – if it hasn’t already arrived.

AS for the issue of “pandemics” or threatened pandemics – my question is what are we being distracted from. LOOK EVERYONE – BIRD FLU! While we’re all tranfixed we’re being buggered somewhere else.

How dangerous is this? How many have died, according to media? About 100. Who gives a shit?

How many died right here in SA yesterday from crime, drugs, poverty, psychiatric drugging and other forms of abuse?

Same with the aids issue. Every time this is questioned (as it was by Mbeki some years ago) the idiots come out of hiding. How many people actually KNOW what aids is all about. Very few. Most go with whatever the mainstream says – and that’s a fucking disaster.