Look at what George Michael had to do in order to resurrect his fame. We AIDS folk could choose to nothing about this erosion of enthusiasm about our plight, and watch AIDS become the Hale-Bopp comet of diseases. Or, we could do something dramatic to revive media interest in our suffering. Just as BankAmerica acquired NationsBank, Daimler-Benz acquired Chrysler and Melanie Griffith acquired Antonio Banderas, let's merge AIDS with another malady and create a superdisease that no news media would dare to dis. Let's look at the field.
Cancer is huge, of course.
And gargantuan news coverage resulting from an AIDS-cancer merger would stir oodles of sympathy for its victims, and maybe even result in a mention in the Newsweek Conventional Wisdom feature, next to an arrow pointing upward. I expect that it would be tough to cut a deal with the cancer crowd. Let's move on. Tuberculosis is resurgent. AIDS could certainly latch onto TB's coattails for the ride.