Newsletter 20221205 Monkeypox was avoidable. HIV vaccine progress.
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IMPORTANT HIV VACCINE BREAKTHROUGH
This is an effort by the Scripps Institute working with other institutions, and not Moderna. There is more than one HIV vaccine effort using more than one technology going on.
This is the very technical Science magazine article.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add6502
This is the somewhat less technical AAAS article.
https://www.aaas.org/news/new-hiv-vaccine-induces-rare-antibody-precursors-phase-1-clinical-trial
This is a report for the more general reader.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/health/hiv-vaccine-phase-1-study
There has been a lot of reporting on HIV vaccines and their promise and then their failures. However, this is very much different and worth reading about.
[1] This vaccine produced what are called broadly neutralizing anti-bodies. That is the induced anti-bodies work on all strains of HIV. The problem with HIV is that the body produces anti-bodies against HIV virus infection, but HIV is a shape-shifting virus so the anti-bodies don’t work on it as it mutates and changes.
There are certain parts of the HIV that can’t change because they are involved in infecting human cells via specific surface targes on human cells that don’t change. However, it has been very difficult to have a vaccine that goes after the unchanging parts of HIV. Scripps appears to have done this.
[2] We don’t have all our eggs in one basket. It is good that there is mRNA vaccine development going on, but by having more than one technology and method being tried we have more than one candidate for an HIV vaccine. Our chances that at least one works is increased.
It has been a long time in waiting, but I think we are reaching the goal of an HIV vaccine. One reason for progress is that biotechnology and biomolecular biology and immunology as sciences and technologies are really advancing very fast. However, there is still Phase II and III to be done for this Scripps vaccine which tests effectiveness in actually preventing infection.
Remember, a Gay antivaxxer is a person who isn’t going to get vaccinated with an HIV vaccine when it becomes available. Though you might be vaccinated, there are occasionally breakthrough infections. If both persons are vaccinated you are fairly safe. If you refuse all unvaccinated, and your partner also refuses all unvaccinated, both of you are really safe.
This applies not only to an HIV vaccine, but mpox vaccine, and any other STD vaccine.
MPOX (MONKEYPOX) WAS AN AVOIDABLE DISASTER
The current scourge of the Gay community necessitating the shut down of Gay sexual liberation and also requiring a vaccine that hasn’t been fully tested for effectiveness could have been entirely and easily avoided. This article from Nature, one of the two most important science magazine in the Anglophone world, explains why.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04155-9
The LGBTQXYZ isn’t focused on STDs as a Gay issue despite the obvious fact that a community with more active sex lives is at greater risk. The Respectability Gays are embarrassed by it, we are supposed to get married and adopt kids, or at least be monogamous. The Stonewall Dem groups are just vote harvesters for the Democrats.
The LGBTQXYZ has lots of letters and Gay concerns get lost in the shuffle. Many of the other letters don’t have this concern. For the local LGBTQXYZ social workers, they don’t see how it will lead to a job and funding for them.
For the LGBTQXYZ it would be embarrassing to have this as agenda item to bring up with the larger straight groups they work with.
Eventually enough of the Gay community will get vaccinated and vaccinated with fully tested vaccines specifically developed for mpox and this issue will go away. However, there will be no program to prevent the next mpox, just as there is no LGBTQXYZ program in general for STDS. [I have a link to my general commentary on this at the end of the post.]
GAY ORGANIZING AND ALSO LAUNCHING A GAY STUDIES MOVEMENT
This is the first post on Gay organizing and also the need for a Gay studies movement. We need to form a Gay studies group. I have done some editing to add in a couple ideas and also to correct various errors.
GAY ORGANIZING AND RELIGION
I corrected a lot of mistakes and edited it.
FINDING EXCUSES TO POSTPONE REVIEWING THE MOVIE “BROS”
I really don’t want to have to sit through the whole movie “Bros,” but I need to review it while it isn’t a distant memory in the Gay public. I think it would be better titled, “I hate those unassimilated Gays.”
R/GAYTRANSGUYS
Asking whether she is kidding herself? I think we know the answer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/za5vqf/help_needed_am_i_gay_or_just_kidding_myself/
What is person is missing is that what she is being told isn’t entirely accurate. The trans getting dates are getting chasers or they are perhaps fabulists.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/za3znz/how_on_earth_do_people_find_dates/
Reality is so cruel.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/za0mqi/butt_stuff/
Wants to bring her mess into Grindr. After a long explanation which its own delusions, transman realizes that probably Gay men aren’t going to share the delusions of the transman being a Gay man they should date. Also, maybe you aren’t into hookups because you are a romantic woman.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/zcg2of/how_to_get_over_the_shame_of_wanting_hookups/
Rationalizing that vaginal sex is Gay.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/zcaj5r/funnyaffirming_moment_with_a_hookup/
Transman Gay friend knows a chaser when he sees one.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/zclsks/my_gay_bf_feels_disrespected_by_my_gay_friend/
DID A LESBIAN ISSUE
I have Lesbian subscribers and so did a post to do an outreach.
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