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> Do you have kids, if so how do you deal with frequent disruptions to the morning routine? Do you not have days where you just need to get up and go e.g. to catch a flight, get to a meeting, take a kid to school, or because you stayed up late and got drunk, etc... and taking vitamins took a back seat?

This is crazy. You deal with the morning routine by taking your pills when the alarm goes off, because there's nothing the kids can be doing that won't wait for that.

Flying, driving, and driving are exactly the same. Take your pill when the alarm goes off.

If you drank so much that it rendered you unconscious through the time you needed to take your pill, the solution is "don't do that". That's not exactly an unavoidable necessity of life.

I don't have much issue with buying vitamins, because I take them with me. Just as I take toothpaste, etc. If I am there long enough to need more vitamins, it is in the same category as needing more toothpaste, and you resupply as you would at home.

No kids. I do have emergency paging and downed server / PROD to deal with 24/7, not the same as kids, but wake-disrupting all the same.

There is rarely something urgent enough to prevent urinating in the morning, and being thirsty after waking up is typcially a no go either. If prod is down maybe I'll eval first, but humans need out and in of water. I'm not going to urinate on the floor, and I'm not going to sit dehydrated and parched mouth for long either.

So wake, urinate, drink and vitamins are in that too.

My vitamins are in the bathroom, and it takes less than 10 seconds to consume them.

Not vitamins but vrious meds in my case. And a very chaotic lifestyle at times.

The meds are always next to bed, and a pouch with meds for when I travel, plus a set of them in my backpack in case I sleep out of home.

When I was in a relationship and we lived separately, I had two sets - one on my place, another in my gf’s place.

It’s a bit like “how do you manage to brush your teeth daily if you have a chaotic routine”.

> problem is, as usual, payment

If only we had an institution with the aim of pursuing the long-term interests of the collective.

Yeah you’re right, I’m not sure why I wrote it that way.

I don't think the 'especially' has that implication when you consider the context of the article that we're commenting on. It's true that women and girls make up the majority of people living with HIV worldwide, and this is especially true of the developing world. On the other hand, your statement that "the vast majority of all cases are in men" is simply false. Depending on the interpretation of 'vast', it's arguably not even true in much of the West. For example, in the UK, about a third of people living with HIV are women; in the US it's about a quarter.

There's nothing 'bizarre' about the situation in Africa. People's sexual behaviour is different in different societies, and this can obviously influence how STIs are distributed among different groups in the population.

They care because they think the claim that AIDS is caused by HIV is wrong, and that AIDS/ICL are in reality the same thing with a shared root cause.

The claim of a viral cause came from Team Fauci in the 90s, who we now know are all pathological liars who happily conspire with each other for their own ends. We can read the Slack logs where they arrange their conspiracies, even. Back then there were renegade virologists and journalists who claimed there was a coverup by virologists in progress, and the inventor of the PCR test agreed with them, but they were ignored because people thought scientists were ideal people who would never do things like that. That was wrong, so the prior for there being a COVID style problem back then too should be strong.

It's reasonable to disagree with that perspective, of course. You can point to pieces of evidence, other people can debate them. It's not reasonable to be like JumpCrisscross and simply roll your eyes at claims of medical malfeasance anymore - that's a severe case of non-memo-getting at this point. A rational person should default to assuming anything involving Fauci and virologists is unreliable. When Nobel-prize winning scientists and journalists speak up and provide a great deal of detail on an alleged conspiracy, priors should then get stronger (and they did). When Pharma companies do tests that implicitly claim to cure AIDS but don't actually test that claim, they should get stronger still.

Or you can be like JumpCrisscross and continue eye-rolling at anyone who has lost trust in the institutions. Don't be like that!