Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body

Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body

  • hypna@lemmy.world
    13·
    13 hours ago

    Could you expand on this? It isn’t obvious to me that this is true, and I haven’t seen the argument before either.

    • kata1yst@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      24·
      13 hours ago

      I’m not sure it accounts for everything, but people tend to embrace conservatism (and yes, eventually Authoritarianism) due to fear. I was very young during the HIV/AIDS scare, but the fear was rampant and very real.

      Magic Johnson making his diagnosis public and Princess Diana touching someone with AIDS was international headline news.

      People are dumb and fear makes us less empathetic and even dumber.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
      171·
      13 hours ago

      It’s just an intuition, I don’t have any data to back this up. But having lived through it, it seemed like that to me. Also there’s historical precedent, with the syphilis epidemic of the 17th and 18th centuries leading to the prudishness and sexual repression of the 19th.