If You Are Having A Bad Day, This Should Make You Feel Better

My dad always says we live in a third world country.  That the people here are ridiculous.  That too many slugs are living off the taxpayer teat.  There may be grains of truth in all that.  Now the next time he tells me how horrible this place is and how ineffectual his primary care physician might be.  I can fire back with this.

Traditional healers in Zimbabwe have been perpetuating a myth that AIDS can be cured by having sex with a virgin.  Logically, men with AIDS began having sex with virgins.  Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants, I'm only a week out of medical school, but I bet my 10 year old sister could tell you that that is the most bogus thing imaginable.  This goes even above and beyond the stupidity and danger of the conspiracy theorists who think that HIV was designed by the government to eradicate blacks and homosexuals.  These men are raping children, HELLO, CHRIS HANSEN WHERE ARE YOU.  This isn't isolated either, this is thousands of girls just in Zimbabwe.  This isn't the benign traditional healing of cupping or coin rubbing. 

Put aside what you learned in cultural sensitivity class and wake up.  Even if you think America sucks, at least we don't tolerate that kind of crap.  Oh the dirty water, malaira, famine thing, we don't have to worry about that either.  Even if these healers went to Kansas City Public Schools it would make them more educated.