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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:17 am Post subject: A New �Gay Disease�? |
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So this is a follow up on this thread:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=110763
And it looks like my analysis was bang on. It's tough being right all the time.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/96130
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The headlines this week about a new "gay" infection were dramatic. FLESH-EATING BUG SPREADS AMONG GAYS, said one Australian newspaper, referring to a study about an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection affecting homosexual men in San Francisco and other American cities. EPIDEMIC FEARED--GAYS MAY SPREAD DEADLY STAPH INFECTION TO GENERAL POPULATION, shouted a press release from the Concerned Women for America, a conservative public-policy group.
But is there a new HIV-like public health epidemic on the horizon? Not likely, says Dr. Henry (Chip) Chambers, coauthor of the study, which was published this week in the online edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine. "This is definitely not the new AIDS," says Chambers, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). "HIV is a life-threatening disease that is incurable and necessitates lifelong treatment," adds Bill Stackhouse, director of the Institute for Gay Men's Health at the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York.
That's not to say that drug-resistant staph infections aren't a serious health problem. As these so-called superbugs become more resistant to common first-line drugs, doctors have been forced to turn to alternative antibiotics, explains Chambers. Once restricted to hospitals, these virulent forms of staph have increasingly afflicted day-care centers, schools, gyms and other public areas in the last decade. These community forms of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) typically cause boils or abscesses to develop on the skin, and in serious cases, they can produce necrotizing fasciitis, which destroys tissue (hence the "flesh-eating" label). Infections that aren't controlled by medication or are left untreated can also damage the heart and infect the blood. CONT'D |
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JAWINSEOUL
Joined: 19 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| I think I'll invest in Trojan stocks after seeing another nasty illness spring up. |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| Where are the health professionals on this one? I have yet to read how common MRSA is in Post-ICU and Nursery Home settings. About two years ago I was working as a recruiter/headhunter in the medical field and this was a common concern of the nurses we sent on staffing jobs. This isn't a new thing. What ever happened to the 'man bites dog' standard of news. Reporters are as bored with their jobs as everyone else apparently. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:24 am Post subject: |
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As I said in the previous thread (that I started), it isn't a 'gay disease', as no such things exists. However, it is an infection that is hitting the gay community much harder than the population at large (13x more in the Castro district, if memory serves) and as such the problem needs to be framed to hit those who are being hit hardest.
Of course, this does not mean that gays are dirty or sinful or bad people. They are not. It just means that they need to ensure that adequate precautions are taken. I've read that the gay community is suffering from 'HIV fatigue' and returning to pre-hiv behaviors. Public health officials are right to communicate the risks involved in any behavior (be it sexual or not). They also have an obligation to target their message to those groups that are most at risk.
I think the reality of homophobia clouds this truth. The gay-bashers take a problem like this and extrapolate a larger narrative of "societal breakdown" when in reality the tools to prevent such issues are easily accessible. Right? |
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spamghod
Joined: 26 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| thepeel wrote: |
As I said in the previous thread (that I started), it isn't a 'gay disease', as no such things exists. However, it is an infection that is hitting the gay community much harder than the population at large (13x more in the Castro district, if memory serves) and as such the problem needs to be framed to hit those who are being hit hardest.
Of course, this does not mean that gays are dirty or sinful or bad people. They are not. It just means that they need to ensure that adequate precautions are taken. I've read that the gay community is suffering from 'HIV fatigue' and returning to pre-hiv behaviors. Public health officials are right to communicate the risks involved in any behavior (be it sexual or not). They also have an obligation to target their message to those groups that are most at risk.
I think the reality of homophobia clouds this truth. The gay-bashers take a problem like this and extrapolate a larger narrative of "societal breakdown" when in reality the tools to prevent such issues are easily accessible. Right? |
If it's "normal," why are so many diseases hitting them? Being a butt pirate is anything but normal! "Homophobia" is a contrived propaganda word,nothing more. Being a sodomite is NOT natural. |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Do I get to be the first person to call Spam a sock? Yay! |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Czarjorge wrote: |
| Do I get to be the first person to call Spam a sock? Yay! |
Why is everybody you disagree with a sock? |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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I disagree with almost everyone on here at some point. I agree with almost everyone on here at some point. Even you, peelsy.
Thing is, the purpose of a sock is either to troll or for a poster to write something they wouldn't want attributed to themselves. And I suppose some people might create a sock to reiterate their own ideas, though that seems silly to me.
The spamghod is a new account posting anti-gay rhetoric. That's pretty suspicious.
If you're referring to pesewatti, or whatever that individuals account name is, I called them your sock as they were saying the same things you say. It was a joke. There are some threads that taken alone might lead people to think I was Ya-ta's sock. I suppose I'll add emoticons in the future to avoid confusion. Those neteriffic terms like troll and sock get thrown around on here alot, and I'm not sure everyone even knows what they mean. |
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jacob7207
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: I guess |
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Since there are no gay people in Korea we all have nothing to worry about.  |
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spamghod
Joined: 26 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: I guess |
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| jacob7207 wrote: |
| Since there are no gay people in Korea we all have nothing to worry about. |
They got bashed to death?!?  |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:17 am Post subject: Re: I guess |
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| spamghod wrote: |
| jacob7207 wrote: |
| Since there are no gay people in Korea we all have nothing to worry about. |
They got bashed to death?!? |
The hakwons actually hire anybody with a pulse eh? Amazing. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| The turds always float to the top, thats for sure. |
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