New AIDS Strain? Of Course.

Gay activists are already protesting the announcement of the appearance of a new and deadly strain of the AIDS virus. In reporting the story, the The New York Times wondered aloud about the protests (e.g., who could protest a scientific announcement?) but then went on to justify it: announcing the new strain apparently might call attention to the continued reckless behavior of the gay community, and its continued intimidation of public health officials – as in this protest. Of course the Times didn't quite put it this way, but that was its meaning.

This protest is a deadly analogue to the hysteria at Harvard where feminist ideologues have successfully brought the Harvard presidency to its knees and made it impossible to conduct a serious discussion about women's opportunities in science. Unfortunately, the intimdations by gay activists of public health officials have led to something more serious than the dumbing down of a once great intellectual institution like Harvard. The mindless political attacks by the gay left on any public health official uttering the truth has led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of gay males in the 25 years of the epidemic.

As I have written in many texts (Radical Son, The Politics of Bad Faith, Left Illusions) the public health profession, including the leading gay doctors in this field, had already said in 1983 that it would take a decade to develop a vaccine (they were wrong) and that there might never be a cure for the disease. Therefore, the only way to stop the epidemic and save lives was to conduct a massive campaign against promiscuous anal sex, the primary cause of the epidemic from the beginning (Note: the primary cause of the epidemic -- that is the exponential increase in AIDS cases. Gay leaders blocked this path and insisted that public health officials and in effect the entire nation avert their eyes from the cause of the epidemic, pretend HIV was an "equal opportunity virus" (it was not), and that vague "education" programs and condoms could halt its spread.

Of course there are going to be new strains of the virus. It mutates. It will find a way to defeat the medical silver bullets that are aimed in its direction. This is a standard lesson from the medical past. When it was introduced, penicillin was a cure for syphilis. Has syphilis disappeared? On the contrary, new strains have developed and new epidemics have followed in their wake. QED. As both the New York Times and the leftwing gay leadership have shown, the price of political correctness can be death.