Conspiracy theory of the week (2)

As any fule kno, the CIA developed HIV in a laboratory in order to wipe out Africans, Afro-Americans and/or gays. I am not sure why Big Condom was never implicated, but hey, let's go with it.

Scientists have now calculated "the virus may have crossed from apes to humans between 1884 and 1924", but the CIA was not founded until 1947.

That can only mean one thing:

The CIA also invent(ed) a time machine to transport the virus back a few decades!

Scary stuff, huh?

"Breakthrough in malaria fight"

On one level, this is excellent news, of course.

But as far as Africa* is concerned, will it really make that much difference**?

* There are nearly one million malaria deaths a year in Africa.

** There were also over a million deaths from AIDS, caused by "the might of greed and inhumanity over morals and virtue", apparently. Crikey, that's a new on on me. Plus around ten million children who die in civil wars, or in the famines that those civil wars cause or are sold into slavery.

See also: "You know aid money works"

Public health

Vindico: Incidentally I object to the term 'public health'. There is individual health only, which can be compared collectively, but 'public health' introduces a meaningless collective perspective that makes it seem important to control

Er ... what about...
Bazalgette's Victorian sewers?
Smallpox and polio vaccinations?
AIDS and TB tests for immigrants? (never enacted of course, far too sensible and un-PC)
Semi-compulsory refuse collection? (scroll down the article)

Dearieme adds: Typhoid Mary

"Harry 'bitterly disappointed' ...

... as his £1m charity gives Aids orphans just £84,0000".

This may be a disappointment to Him but it's hardly a surprise, is it? That's how charities operate nowadays.