Even if the blog is dedicated to disco music, I can’t ignore something external to it, because there are non-musical issues that have exerted a big influence over music. One of those issues is a retrovirus called HIV-AIDS, which is mortal at notable percentages, and can only be medically treated in non-resolutive ways. More precisely, there are expensive therapies useful to prolong and to improve the life of patients, although not able to definitively win the battle against the virus itself. To say the truth, some cases of regression are known, but science hasn’t understood why they happened. I omit to participate to the virtual contest among followers of conspiracy theories, but I have the courage of telling something in general about viruses, that you can hardly find elsewhere. Viruses can’t be artificially produced, because too much complicated for human faculties. Moreover, I am convinced that artificial intelligence can’t cancel, or overcome, human limitations. It means that a simple DNA chain includes many thousands of interactions (perhaps millions), each of them extremely complex, while human brain, and everything produced by it, can manage no more than 150 simple interactions. Despite, humans can manipulate viruses, and attempt a small dose of engineering on the simplest of them. Thus, I can’t believe in the artificial origins of HIV-AIDS, chiefly because it isn’t a simple virus. Logically, I can’t consider HIV-AIDS as a reactionary attack to civil rights, especially against LGBT communities, a wrong idea that has slowed the progresses in the prevention of the pathology. With other words, the transmission of HIV-AIDS is totally extraneous to political correctness, and depends on the material contact with infected blood, in order to provoke a contamination of the blood of the receiver. On the web, there is a lot about the described mechanism, including any practical aspect. At this point, I’m forced to abandon pseudo-scientific tales, and to invite you to the reading of truly scientific sites.
I’ve already posted two pages about social
aspects of HIV-AIDS, focused on global statistics, and on nightclubbing in the
Big Apple during the 80’s. I feel the need to add a new page, dedicated to a
peculiar topic, the level of involvement of heterosexuals in the matter of
HIV-AIDS. For some years, the common opinion was that HIV-AIDS was reserved to
male homosexuals, and to male abusers of recreational drugs, with the bad habit
of sharing syrinxes. Well, in the year 1983 there was the first recognized death
from HIV-AIDS of a woman, who previously had a sexual relationship with a
HIV-positive man. Thanks to that, HIV-AIDS has ceased to be thought as a
revenge of God against sinful sodomy. Has it been a conquer of mankind? No, of
course. Differently, heterosexual love has become scary, and now we all know
that unprotected intercourses of the occasional kind, the horse of battle of
nightclubs, are always at high risk. A popular awareness of that has been
helped by music. As for examples, during the same year 1983, two emblematic
songs were released. The first is a fantastic piece of soul music, titled
“Womack & Womack – baby I’m scared of you” (US), that has been utilized at
NYC nightclubs as a warning addressed to heterosexuals. The second is the
greatest hit of the rock band the Greg Kihn Band, titled “jeopardy” (US), that
has been utilized on radios all over the USA, for the same purpose of the
above.
