Comments on: Marketing AID$ is big bucks (updated)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:17:57 +0000

This post has been updated to include the (RED) campaign as another example of marketing with AIDS. The (RED) campaign promotes upscale products with a feel-good promise that a portion of profits will be used to benefit BigPharma by purchasing (toxic) AIDS drugs for poor Africans, regardless of their access to nutritional food, clean water, or basic health services.

By: Felix

Felix — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:00:11 +0000

Hi Jonathan,

Don’t want to be accused of “rosy optimism.” When I mean last gasp, I don’t necessarily mean it will end soon.

I do think that the massive scaremongering won’t work again, though. People can see through it. Homophobia has subsided. Western Medicine has been discredited in many important ways. People have to take care of their OWN health, and not outsource it to experts.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:50:46 +0000

Felix: I wish I was as optimistic as you that AIDS will be the last gasp. I fear it may become a toehold for taking us even further down the road to a 100% synthetic, mechanical model of medical care that only recognizes “health” as a word to be co-opted. Of course I wouldn’t be doing this if I thought all hope was lost, so thanks for the encouraging words.

By: Felix

Felix — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:40:56 +0000

AIDS has degenerated into a racket. You can’t make money in the health industry, unless you sell sickness.

Selling AIDS has been a key component of the medical establishment. It worked once, but it won’t work forever. It failed with the bird flu, swine flu, west nile virus, ebola virus.

AIDS Inc. will be the last gasp of a rotten regime. Too bad so many people committed suicide on HIV diagnoses in the past or were poisoned with AZT or were simply stigmatized into depression.

You’re doing good things here, Jonathan.

In good health,

Felix