What should we do about AIDs in Africa?

[Guest big Dante Cruz]

In a perfect world...

 

That's something that's always kinda bugged me about the UN. The US does at least half of everything, be it financial aid, troops and so on, but the UN Security Council is a handful of people, US and China and Russia being the only permanent seats (I think, I may be wrong). So, we have what, a one fifth or one sixth say in what happens even though we do half or more, and that's not even counting what we do ourselves.

[Guest Some Guy]

The thing with the UN is for teh most part they are a bunch of anti-American and anti-semtic Socialists who see all of America's money and want to start spreading it around. The UN is a waste of our time, we don't get anywhere near out of it as we put into it. I think we should drop out and watch it sink without our money to prop the stupid thing up.

[Guest big Dante Cruz]

On the topic of the AIDS cure, I don't think it exists yet. Part of the problem is that, yes, it's a virus so you can't exactly kill it. Virii aren't quite alive, and they reproduce using host cells. Bacteria are alive, so they can be killed.

 

As for a vaccine, HIV is a retrovirus. The protein casing of the virus holds RNA. When it goes into a cell, it creates the counterpart to its RNA, the DNA strand and replicates. What does that have to do with vaccinations? Because the construction of the DNA makes for errors in the strand and we end up with a new strain which you can't make a vaccination for.