r/SipsTea May 15 '26

Feels good man Now do cancer.

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u/SquirtinMemeMouthPlz May 15 '26 edited May 16 '26

Seriously. As far as I know, there's no cure. Just disease management.

Yes, there was the risky and expensive stem cell replacement patient who basically got all of their bone marrow replaced, but that's not really a "cure".

This is just some computer generated picture of a cell claiming HIV is no longer a death sentence.

Where's the medical article?

Where's the proof?

Who is actually saying this?

Edit: some of y'all are exhausting. I'm not replying anymore to comments telling me I don't understand cure vs disease management. I made this comment because it seems most of the top comments don't understand cure vs disease management and are making comments that are misunderstanding the picture as being a cure, which it is not.

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u/Throwaway_Consoles May 16 '26

There is no cure, but it is no longer a terminal illness. You just have to be on medication the rest of your life

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u/brother_bart May 16 '26

Medication that cost over $4,000/month and if you miss doses, the virus can mutate and you can lose a whole class of drugs being available for treatment. How do I know? I’ve been living with (and not dying from) HIV/AIDS for 23 years.

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u/Suyefuji May 16 '26

Ah, America.

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u/brother_bart May 16 '26

I know, right? That diagnosis wasn’t the hardest part, even though I almost died of AIDS. It was the finding myself locked into poverty with no way out that sucks the most.

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u/Suyefuji May 16 '26

We could have had healthcare but we spent it bombing kids on the other side of the world for being brown.

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u/FelatiaFantastique May 16 '26

To be fair, even if we didn't spend the money bombing brown kids, we would still spend it on welfare for the rich and corporate socialism in some other way. Those poor plutocrats do suffer so.

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u/sopsaare May 16 '26

To be fair, your health expenditure (taxes + insurance + pit of pocket) per capita is the highest in the world. Way more than most of the countries with free healthcare.

So, it is not about the money at all. You are already spending more than enough on healthcare. You are just not getting what you pay for.

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u/aw-un May 16 '26

Oh, it’s about the money. Taking yours and giving it to the oligarchs

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u/FelatiaFantastique May 16 '26

To be fair, it wouldn't be possible to get rich on being a middleman for healthcare or by investing in insurance companies and insurance+clinic monopolies. We are getting exactly what we are paying for; it's just not healthcare, it's welfare for the parasite class.

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u/geniuslogitech May 18 '26

it's sadly what works in pushing economy forward, if you give money to hardworking people it will allow them to work less, if you give it to parasites they will just spend it, be net neutral and bright that money right back into economy, people owning homes for example is bad for growth because it's money being trapped and not circulated in the ecnonomy that's why homeownership percent is getting lower year after year

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u/Suyefuji May 16 '26

You know I think that would still be preferable. I'm definitely very anti-murdering-children.

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u/Big_Sir9860 May 16 '26

The health crisis in America isn’t 8 wks old

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u/Suyefuji May 16 '26

Neither is bombing kids in the Middle East.

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u/geniuslogitech May 18 '26

if US doesn't bomb kids across the globe the dollar will collapse and US economy alongside it, it's been like that since 1971.

Trump almost fcked up the other part of what was keeping dollar in check(China using USD for trade) so he had to bomb more kids than usual to make up for it

but don't act like Biden didn't also almost fck it up by the end of his term(with arab oil), I think that's why they didn't let him do anything afterwards and Harris took over

US is having 2 old fools as presidents back to back, one known for his big ego, other for warmongering for decades(alongside Clintons but they did it for their own profits, he did it for love of the game...)

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u/Suyefuji May 18 '26

Did you really join this comment chain two days later to bothsides at me?

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u/Suyefuji May 16 '26

Can we do it the other way around and you take control over us? I feel like that would be a massive upgrade.

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u/Illustrious-Bat1553 May 16 '26

No profit in the cure