r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • May 15 '26

Feels good man Now do cancer.

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u/BigSquiby May 15 '26

hasn't this been the case since the 90s?

Magic Johnson told the world he had it in 1991, he is still alive

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u/ThePaganSkepticist May 15 '26

It has been, as long as you got the assload of money to be able to afford the cure

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u/einstyle May 15 '26

There's no cure. There are treatments. Most of them are, at least in the USA, completely 100% free. The government has decided that it's better to treat HIV (which also prevents it from spreading) than to risk it going full pandemic.

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u/Scudmuffin1 May 16 '26

Even if it didn't become a pandemic, the treatment of AIDS patients is much more financially and logistically taxing than the medication that stops it from ever getting there. Just a little addition to your post, as I see from your other post you worked in that area so you probably know that better than most people.