Re: Circumcision

On May 29, 3:24 pm, Lance <LanceG...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Given the
huge number of deaths from AIDS - and I know you have no conception of
how awful the situation is but there are many people dieing in the
most dreadful way

On the subject of AIDS itself, it seems to go through phases. A couple
of years back there were lots of reports of labour shortages projected
far into the future causing the mines to worry about their financial
viability. There were talks of huge depopulation resulting in
disturbances to the economy similar to those that happened after the
black death. Graveyards were running out of space, and so forth.

We don't seem to hear so much of this now. Maybe the slowing of the
world economy generally has made the economic pressures less intense.
Maybe the mines and other industries have learned how to cope with the
high mortality. I'm not sure.

It is worth reflecting that AIDS is not really some new unknown
scourge that affects humanity as never before, it's more of a return
to the normal state where disease is a major cause of death, and not
just for the old. Before the invention of antibiotics and the
understanding of sepsis, this was the situation as well. People coped.
.

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