3 letters to Pres. Trump. Get HIV vaccine testing started. Have an effective mpox program. Investigate Trevor Project.
The Biden admin. stop HIV vaccine testing March 2024. Mpox prevention has been bungled. We need to stop suicide contagion being put into overdrive.
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Three things the Gay community could use. Long shot effort. Get him on record.
I picked three things which wouldn’t be difficult for him to do politically, which would be a benefit for the Gay community.
[1] HIV vaccine testing was stopped and I am asking that it get started.
I reposted the HIV letter as part of the campaign to get an HIV Vaccine.
[2] Mpox was bungled by the Biden administration. I want a plan to deal with mpox decisively and also to take tropical diseases seriously before they get here.
[3] The assertions of the Trevor Project that nearly half of young LGBT are thinking of suicide I think cause suicide contagion. I would like them investigated.
I can’t write my local U.S. Cong. Rep. since she isn’t listening.
It is a long shot, but they would have a big benefit.
Also, I want to get him on record on Gay issues.
#HIVVaxNow
[1] Get HIV vaccine testing started again. It was stopped because of bureaucratic politics.
Feb. 2, 2025
Edward H. Sebesta
Dallas, Texas 75216
President Donald J. Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Hon. Trump:
Early in 2024 very promising research into an HIV vaccine was stupidly stopped by bureaucratic politics. The article reporting on it was in Science, Vol. 383, Issue 6687, March 8, 2024, page 1044. Online and page pdfs enclosed.
Or:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adp0477
The article points out that:
Most of these skin problems quickly resolved and weren't severe enough to stop any trial,
And:
One of the most promising attempts to reinvigorate the stalled quest for an HIV vaccine has hit a snag that might seem minor but has major consequences: delaying the larger trials needed to show whether the concept works.
This rational for halting the test was infuriating.
Most of these skin problems quickly resolved and weren't severe enough to stop any trial, but researchers do not want to minimize them. “At a time when vaccine hesitancy is high, it is critically important not to dismiss urticaria as an unimportant side effect,” says Kimberly Blumenthal, an allergist at Massachusetts General Hospital. [Boldface added.]
Is this really a reason to halt trials because of another political issue?!
Let me make something really clear, they said that in one trial 11 out of 60 got the rash. Gays would be overjoyed to get the vaccine even if the rash happened 100% of the time, lasted twice as long and we need three shots instead of two.
Also, are their people who don’t want an AIDS vaccine found?
There is a lot of cash flow with AIDS. There are the cost of medicines, treatment, counseling, and safe sex instruction. If a cure for AIDS was found tomorrow, a lot of people would be out of work, lots of cash wouldn’t be flowing to those who get it now.
With a vaccine, there wouldn’t be immediate unemployment, but there would be a steady decline in patients over time.
I am not saying there is any effort currently to block an HIV vaccine, I don’t know, likely this halt is due to sheer bureaucratic politics, but I think we need to be aware that there are financial interests.
I ask that you do the following.
1. Take measures to get the development program of this HIV vaccine moving again and going ahead full speed.
2. Make sure that the federal health departments don’t needlessly halt development of this vaccine.
3. Make sure Moderna doesn’t get blocked or bothered in their efforts to develop an HIV vaccine.
AIDS is the great scourge of the Gay community globally. Other groups are afflicted by it in some places also.
If an HIV vaccine is finally developed, the Gay community would be celebrating for days.
Sincerely Yours,
Edward H. Sebesta
[2] Have an effective program for mpox and tropical diseases.
February 2, 2025
Edward H. Sebesta.
Dallas, Texas 75216
President Donald J. Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Hon. Trump:
The Biden administration bungled mpox. This isn’t just my opinion, Nature magazine, one of the two most credible scientific publications has pointed this out. The 2022 outbreak of mpox among Gay men never should have happened. At this link you can see my letter to Hon. Crockett and I enclose it also.
I wrote U.S. House Rep. Jasmine Crockett Jan. 31, 2023 about the prior poor performance of the Biden administration and what needed to be done to prevent another mpox emergency. I didn’t get a response until a year later and it was just an irrelevant response with blah, blah, blah.
Had the Biden taken my suggestions about mpox seriously then, the current outbreak in Africa with its suffering could have been prevented. Also, almost every week, there is one or two cases where a traveler with mpox clade 1b arrives in a nation outside Africa. This is serious. As of now, the health authorities are on the case right away and doing contact tracing. What if there is a case and there is some source of turmoil, like an earthquake, hurricane, tornado, or civil disorder? There could be an outbreak.
However, the biggest issue is #7 in my letter, taking tropical diseases seriously. With the world of jet planes, international shipping, there are all sorts of ways diseases can get from one place to another. Also, is there a plan to decisively deal with mpox?
I am reading reports on Marburg and Ebola in Science and Nature magazines. An outbreak occurs, but by the time the governmental health agencies respond to test vaccines, the epidemic has been contained. These are really bad diseases with really high fatality rates. There needs to be a plan which actually delivers a working vaccine.
So far, the Gay community has been impacted by two tropical diseases, HIV and mpox. Will there be a 3rd, 4th, 5th tropical disease impacting the Gay community? Further, these diseases like to evolve and it might start with Gays, but then impact others.
The current victims of mpox in Africa are often children.
I ask that your administration do the following:
1. Have a definitive plan to decisively deal with mpox.
2. Have a plan to decisively deal with tropical diseases before they reach the United States.
I think everyone will benefit.
Sincerely yours,
Edward H. Sebesta
[3] Investigate the Trevor Project over a concern about their research and activities which could promote suicide contagion.
February 2, 2025
Edward H. Sebesta
Dallas, Texas 75216
President Donald J. Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Hon. Trump:
I am concerned about the propaganda that the Trevor Project is putting out that supposedly about half of LGBTQ+ youth are thinking about suicide. I think the assertion by the Trevor Project is bogus.
Even a casual observer of high school student suicides knows that social contagion is a serious concern. One person commits suicide an other students copy it.
When I was young, 18 years old in 1970, came out in 1975?, we were NOT thinking about suicide. Life then was challenging, but victimhood wasn’t our hobby. We survived.
The Trevor Project is a continuing danger to Gay youth in pushing the idea that Gay youth are supposedly frequently thinking about suicide. This is social contagion in overdrive.
I think their methods are bogus. I did a spot check on four so-called studies published by the Trevor Project. Copy of report enclosed. https://edwardhsebesta.substack.com/p/the-lgbtqxyz-social-services-group
·All four of the papers published were with “journals” that have Author Publishing Charges. (APC). That is the author pays to get published.
· One of the articles was published in a journal called by many a predatory journal.
There are these, what I call, LGBTQXYZ+ organizations that are constantly finding a crisis for cash. I would like to have the United States government health agencies investigate the Trevor Project for fraud and endangering Gay youth.
Sincerely Yours,
Edward H. Sebesta
Advocacy in the new reality.
Gay concerns and issues don’t stop because the Democrats have managed to completely lose control of the government, and I am going to see what might be done under the new administration if anything.
Getting HIV vaccine testing going is certainly worth writing for. Getting a stop program moving again should be easy to do.