I find their ads rather embarrassing tbh. It is based on outdated fears (where they ever in date?) and strange concepts. I may be on the no side but even I can see how absurd these claims are.
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The ânoâ campaign has spent 2x the âyesâ campaignâs spend on promoting their cause.
Yet the âyesâ campaign is pushy and invasive?
My question remains, who on earth spends that much money and effort trying to convince others that they should deny rights to people?
Itâs sick.
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They should roll out the bowling ball ad from the 80s
I was reading a News.Com article about the âNoâ campaign yesterday and noticed an ad for the âYesâ campaign right in the middle of it. Made me chuckle a bit.
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Fark that was stupid. And another stupid waste of taxpayersâ money.
Stupid? It was one of the most successful ad campaigns in Australian history.
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Thanks SMJ
Scared the life out of me. Was terrifying. So misinformed but did its job
lol, I had forgotten about that ad
I would have been about 7 or 8 when that came out. Scared the â â â â out of me too. Hated ten pin bowling for a long time.
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Not sure that the ad was that misinformed.
I remember having a good mate who was a Dr at Fairfield Hospital where many of the AIDS patients were. It was very scary and tragic, but many believed they were bullet-proof and immune. They were wrong.
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This is an interesting post, except Iâd argue as humans we are way too selfish to make socialism work, and few people would end up holding the âpowerâ, and we would get reamed. IIRC Marx actually advocates for a temporary dictatorship whilst transitioning. Would that âtransitionâ ever be complete?, Not to mention, (IMO) people would still be left behind regardless of the system (including being homeless), due to mental illness, and just the general âdysfunctionalnessâ of many human beings.
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Donât get fooled by the fact that HIV is no longer a death sentence. It was then.
The way that baby goes flying at about 40 seconds is amazing.
It is still a death sentence, it is just now the period until it happens is much further out if things are done properly.
I understood it was now controllable.
To a degree however many still die of it, or should I say âaids related illnessâ.
Just having a read, in the US alone in 2014 22,000 thousand people died of aids or aids related.
There were 36.000 new cases of aids in 2014 in the US alone.
It was the 8th largest cause of death in the US in 2014.
But back then, it was a death sentence, as bad as pancreatic cancer, and as quick and as miserable.
And it was spread through blood, by whatever source.
HIV disease continues to be a serious health issue for parts of the world. Worldwide, there were about 1.8 million new cases of HIV in 2016. About 36.7 million people were living with HIV around the world in 2016, and 19.5 million of them were receiving medicines to treat HIV, called antiretroviral therapy (ART). An estimated 1 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2016. Sub-Saharan Africa, which bears the heaviest burden of HIV and AIDS worldwide, accounts for about 64% of all new HIV infections. Other regions significantly affected by HIV and AIDS include Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
CDCâs Global AIDS website explains what CDC is doing in the global fight against HIV.