tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29906474.post5763421397094479250..comments2023-12-22T03:20:29.631-07:00Comments on Ilyka Damen: You're Right! They'd Be Better off Dead!ilykahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01286988732452435904noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29906474.post-229908000461248442008-01-08T09:17:00.000-07:002008-01-08T09:17:00.000-07:00this reminds me of quality of life issues. the pha...this reminds me of quality of life issues. the pharmas want to give us anti-HIV meds but then say--oh, yeah, there are side effects, often devastating but hey at least you're alive so take your pills. is it worth living if your quality of life is suffering to an extent you find hard to tolerate? maybe, maybe not. we deserve anti-HIV meds with fewer side effects! let's get after the pharmas about that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29906474.post-18001958592861907622008-01-06T19:23:00.000-07:002008-01-06T19:23:00.000-07:00Wh..wha...??That's some impressively biased (and l...Wh..wha...??<BR/><BR/>That's some <I>impressively</I> biased (and lazy!) reporting. I've seen elementary school children with better journalistic skills.<BR/><BR/>A first-rate fisking on your part, of course... though given your years of expertise, it's a little like shooting plushie fish manacled to a barrel with an ICBM.<BR/><BR/>On the plus side, I read bits of it aloud to the boyfriend and he laughed and said we should adopt you. I agree, natch. :)Magniloquencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15799503502392959135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29906474.post-46063814740484789612008-01-06T13:18:00.000-07:002008-01-06T13:18:00.000-07:00Wouldn't it be more useful to the premise of the s...<EM>Wouldn't it be more useful to the premise of the story if she said that heart disease was difficult to treat? (Implied: too difficult to bother.)</EM><BR/><BR/>Oh, I see what you mean! I took it as "neither of these diseases are difficult to deal with on their own, but factoring in that damn AIDS complicates them terribly." But I may have been biased by the appalling headline that, if it only rhymed better and used more slang, would be right at home in the Post.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, "heart disease is too difficult to bother with" works too, except that I imagine that would get some angry letters from cardiac patients and we can't have that.ilykahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01286988732452435904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29906474.post-753683172216523992008-01-06T12:46:00.000-07:002008-01-06T12:46:00.000-07:00Some people say that HIV patients would be better ...<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYA9ufivbDw" REL="nofollow">Some people say</A> that HIV patients would be better off dead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29906474.post-16537593928199390942008-01-06T10:35:00.000-07:002008-01-06T10:35:00.000-07:00No physician in her right mind would say all that ...<EM>No physician in her right mind would say all that was not "terribly hard to treat," but it's a useful quote if your premise is that everything would be simpler if only patients with AIDS would stop living already.</EM><BR/><BR/>I'm confused. Wouldn't it be more useful to the premise of the story if she said that heart disease <EM>was</EM> difficult to treat? (Implied: too difficult to bother.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com