Kevin's Watch

The Washington Post has an article today (excerpted from a book) about the origins of HIV. Here's a link. The authors lay blame, ultimately, on the colonial exploitation of Africa around the turn of the 20th century.

Very interesting.

--A

We have a good idea of how: A hunter caught an infected chimpanzee for food, allowing the virus to pass from the chimp’s blood into the hunter’s body, probably through a cut during butchering.

At least any other means of transfer is to gross to contemplate

Prebe wrote:

We have a good idea of how: A hunter caught an infected chimpanzee for food, allowing the virus to pass from the chimp’s blood into the hunter’s body, probably through a cut during butchering.

At least any other means of transfer is to gross to contemplate

There you go, blaming the homosexuals again.

aliantha wrote:

Prebe wrote:

We have a good idea of how: A hunter caught an infected chimpanzee for food, allowing the virus to pass from the chimp’s blood into the hunter’s body, probably through a cut during butchering.

At least any other means of transfer is to gross to contemplate

There you go, blaming the homosexuals again.

I don't see where he says it had to be same sex butcher, and chimp...

Vraith wrote:I don't see where he says it had to be same sex butcher, and chimp

I never really got far enough past the Human/chimp imagery to start assigning gender to the participants, no.

Prebe wrote:

Vraith wrote:I don't see where he says it had to be same sex butcher, and chimp

I never really got far enough past the Human/chimp imagery to start assigning gender to the participants, no.

Either way, some chimps are very attractive. Just look at Fabio.

Picture googling Fabio yields no chimps, but is dominated by three male H. sapiens of varying degree of hunkyness. I trust that it is one of those that you implicitly refer to as more or less simian?

Uh-huh!


I guess you're right, tho. The chimp and the butcher wouldn't have to be the same gender. My mistake.

So HIV was spread by 2 gay chimps both named Fabio?

High Lord Tolkien wrote:So HIV was spread by 2 gay chimps both named Fabio?

Nah, everything would have been just fine if it weren't for the butcher and that little episode with baker, tub, candlestick maker.

Shoulda seen this one coming.

--A

i see that at least the Loresraat stays onpoint. filled with knowledge and all that, surprised we haven't won an award for this section of the Watch.