Baltimore Unrest

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marcusluvsvols said:
Cdy someone very close to me is HIV positive. Her Tcell count..though i know its not called that anymore..was recently only 9. It should be thousands. She was hospitalized for almost a month and nearly passed. Her immune system is terribly suppressed. Are the drugs you listed above what she needs? Will they help? How? Thanks.
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Let me start by saying that I'm far from an authority on HIV treatment. I deal with Eric Garners (obese COPDers who are in hypoventilatory respiratory failure) every day so I feel comfortable speaking about that.

With that in mind... I would guess that those meds wouldn't help your loved one. Cancer patient's immunity is wiped out due to chemo treatment. Once the treatment regiment is complete, you can give those to stimulate white cell production. You wouldn't give it if they were still getting treatment. That would be counterproductive.

In HIV, stimulating white cell production (I wouldn't think anyway) wouldn't really help. In the case of the cancer patient the source of the immune suppression (chemo) is no longer present. In an HIV patient that source (HIV) is still present. It'd be like trying to bail water out of a sinking boat. If you don't fix the hole in the bottom, you never gonna make any progress.

As far as I know antiretroviral therapy is the standard treatment for HIV/AIDS. Outside is that I'm relatively clueless. Also, like I said, I'm not really too knowledgable about either cancer or HIV. I rarely take care of cancer patients and even more rarely take care of HIV patients. And when I do it's generally to treat some acute ailment that arises secondary to the cancer/HIV more than it is to treat those diseases themselves. Once that's done, they move on.

So basically that's my long way of saying... Speak with their physician.
 
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LouderVol said:
Whats funny is that the people there voted for their own issues. Yes they were just continuing down the road they were set on, but they have done nothing to deviate. funny that those same people would know what to do given the choice, they already made.
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Not necessarily. Baltimore's biggest problem is the war on drugs and that was forced on them by federal law.
 
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MercyPercy said:
You're right, it would actually take some courage to do what I suggested.

It's also why it's important for it to be a concerted group effort rather than one officer going to his boss and letting his feelings be known. They might fire one guy for speaking out against the idiocy. Would they fire the whole department?
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and these cops band together and talk to their boss, who takes it higher, in the mean time what do these cops do while bureaucracy drags its heals? They can make their moral stand and not enforce the laws as they see fit? That could lead to the firing. do they stop enforcing all laws because some are unjust but at least they are choosing which ones to enforce/not enforce.

I don't want the cops to be the ones to decide what laws are relevant or not. I am want them to enforce the laws. if anything it is up to us the citizens to choose what is relevant or not. go out an vote, email somebody, call hotlines. we the citizens need to do what you are talking about not the cops.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Not necessarily. Baltimore's biggest problem is the war on drugs and that was forced on them by federal law.
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right now, debatable. the root cause of their problems? not at all. not at least in the way you are thinking. (at least as how i would argue it)

there are gangs and groups up there that actively work on keeping businesses out. for the gangs its because any business threatens their profit margins and allows people to lift themselves up beyond the constant drug use. There are political groups that see any job as working for the man and actively boycott those businesses that make it in. I have talked with developers who have had their corner stores and various other "legitimate" shops fire bombed, looted and robbed. (before these riots). they have had their workers shot, threatened and robbed at home of their "Ill gotten gains". Churches that host rehab sessions and offer people help get similar treatment. the people, maybe just a violent minority, keep everyone down. and yes it is for the drugs but it has nothing to do with the government and everything to do with profit margin and keeping the status quo for those select few.
 
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LouderVol said:
all removing the drug war would do is the gangs could sell legally and start filling taxes (HAHAHAHAHA). nothing else would change.
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It would help but those in the game now wouldn't suddenly go out and get jobs. They would look for other ways to make quick easy cash.

Even with 100% legalization we are talking a generation or two to fix and that would require many more fixes.
 
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McDad said:
...the people who choose to live and work in high risk, low opportunity ghettos.

Get the heck outta there ASAP.
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Your white privilege is showing!! People in low opportunity high risk ghettos dont have the means to leave unless the government, lottery, relative playing sports, can help them. Who are you to think they can work hard and make good choices to escape poverty?

And lets be real. If you're white you cant ever understand what its like to be them and not be able to make good decisions. Amirite democrats?
 
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I am almost to the point to where I would support the police completely pulling out of these communities and basically saying: go at it. Sell whatever drugs you want to, to whoever you want, shoot each other all you want just do it to the people of your own neighborhood. No one goes to jail, its everyone for themselves.
 
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volfanjustin said:
I am almost to the point to where I would support the police completely pulling out of these communities and basically saying: go at it. Sell whatever drugs you want to, to whoever you want, shoot each other all you want just do it to the people of your own neighborhood. No one goes to jail, its everyone for themselves.
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What if instead of pulling out, they just enforce laws against property crime and violence?

If that were the case, Gray would probably only have 1 assault charge on his record. How many UT athletes had an assault charge at some point? I don't get this attitude you have about Baltimore. The war on drugs has destroyed their community, so now they don't get any police protection? How about scaling back the war on drugs first, before we abandon Baltimore altogether?
 
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n_huffhines said:
What if instead of pulling out, they just enforce laws against property crime and violence?

If that were the case, Gray would probably only have 1 assault charge on his record. How many UT athletes had an assault charge at some point? I don't get this attitude you have about Baltimore. The war on drugs has destroyed their community, so now they don't get any police protection? How about scaling back the war on drugs first, before we abandon Baltimore altogether?
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Lol. So let them pick and choose what laws they want the police to enforce? You say a lot of "absurd" things and this is near the top of the list.
 
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n_huffhines said:
What if instead of pulling out, they just enforce laws against property crime and violence?

If that were the case, Gray would probably only have 1 assault charge on his record. How many UT athletes had an assault charge at some point? I don't get this attitude you have about Baltimore. The war on drugs has destroyed their community, so now they don't get any police protection? How about scaling back the war on drugs first, before we abandon Baltimore altogether?
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Liberal policies over the last 50 years have destroyed Baltimore..
 
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n_huffhines said:
What if instead of pulling out, they just enforce laws against property crime and violence?

If that were the case, Gray would probably only have 1 assault charge on his record. How many UT athletes had an assault charge at some point? I don't get this attitude you have about Baltimore. The war on drugs has destroyed their community, so now they don't get any police protection? How about scaling back the war on drugs first, before we abandon Baltimore altogether?
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They, with the help of government handouts have destroyed their community. If the cops came out and said we will not arrest 1 more person in these neighborhoods due to drugs as long as they keep them in their own neighborhoods I think I would be fine with it.
 
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volfanjustin said:
They, with the help of government handouts have destroyed their community. If the cops came out and said we will not arrest 1 more person in these neighborhoods due to drugs as long as they keep them in their own neighborhoods I think I would be fine with it.
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Ironically they would b*** and moan over that as well.
 
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FLVOL69 said:
policies over the last 50 years have destroyed Baltimore..
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Dude, Nixon is just as much to blame for ramping up war on poverty and war on drugs as any liberal. Reagan Republicans pretend like they are against big government and don't support welfare, but their actions are another story.
 
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