I do not smoke, do not shoot coke, and drink a little 'wine just because you have to do it, but these days, if the police stop me, mistaking me for a junkie in the throes of alcoholic delirium.
What happens is that the idea of \u200b\u200bhaving started HAART is galvanizing me like few things in life.
Knowing that I am now doing what it should be, that is my part in making your ass to the virus, it gives me a strength I did not remember much from ... my doctor was ecstatic, almost as much as me, when asked "how are you? "I said" by God! " :-).
But I am a pessimist by nature, and I always look into things that may not go ... but in this case I can not find it.
After the first few weeks of despair, almost a year ago, I began to discover stories of people who lived by - and good - with the virus and then put aside the despair I began to look more carefully to what surrounds us ... and I realized one thing: even with all the dead who did, this virus has been one of the things "better" that could happen ...
Think about it. A latent virus
probably for centuries explodes in the early eighties of the twentieth century.
At any other time in history would have decimated the human race, other than fever or English.
Instead, he had bad luck, and met some epochal revolutions.
First, the long wave of sexual liberation.
Millions of people who discovered the freedom to love, you are not a little pissed the idea that a virus would endanger this achievement.
Then the gay liberation movement.
If this virus had not mowed actors, singers, dancers ... and homosexuals, that is, people who by choice or condition had a sex life more "risky" ( if you can not marry you tend to more partner ) if it had not seemed simply hateful and racist in the eyes of those who began to gain their social status, had no opposition "ideological" so determined.
So every day, from day one, millions of dollars are spent for thirty years, while in the star system around the world of show business, industry and politics - even if only for the sake of image - repeat the mantra of "All united against AIDS" and every legitimate effort to research.
Finally, the information technology boom, which in a few years it has colonized anything, medical research in the first place (Think the easiest thing, what it means to do clinical trials without the use of computers, if only to take into account how patients should be ...).
In a few years, this disease is capsized on a lot of work, money and technology I ever seen in history, and took only 15 years because the "plague of the millennium" almost starting to become a chronic disease.
I do not know if it will defeat HIV in 2010, 2015 or when , but I know one thing: that is a race to the Moon or the "Star Wars" to Ronald Reagan have fielded so many energy in a short time, I know that if HIV also had never defeated and we were all destined to live ... to HAART up to 95 years, what is happening is changing medicine, the world.
Suddenly, medical research, which now did not know where to turn (I remember a famous quote about a "fundamental" many years ago: cancer now feel the dust of the walls ) has discovered new instruments, he began to think to take bolder and more original, and everyday ideas that once would have made me laugh even in science fiction are discussed seriously, and someone bet on it. Think
this poor virus, which turns any side is someone trying to plant them in the ass, if not the integrase inhibitor is a nucleoside non-nucleoside, if not this is the protease, or that of a merger, while the garage is heated and CCR5 inhibitor via inhibition for each class ... and there are more teams of molecules pissed.
Think of how many people we love would still be here if the fight against cancer had the same luck.
Well, I will try, because I'm afraid to be terribly disappointed, but I can not be pessimistic: somewhere, the cavalry is coming.
And now, Call me crazy.
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