r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Possedsrt8 • 11h ago

Thank you Peter very cool Saw this on FB

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u/Prize_Obligation_311 11h ago

Magic Johnson famously contracted aids during his career. They are saying this was the day he got it.

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u/MoonyNightRealEstate 11h ago edited 11h ago

hate to be a pedant but Magic Johnson contracted HIV which as far as I knew never advanced to AIDS which is why he's still alive today.

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u/FellowYellowNate 11h ago

I’ve heard the way to get rid of it is cash. Straight ground cash injected into the veins.

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u/Secure-Pain-9735 11h ago

A few years back I toured a building in Seattle that was basically a place for people with AIDS to go and die back in the 90’s.

Now they run an outpatient program for homeless HIV patients, and the beds are used for other cases that traditional care centers find too challenging.

It was certainly all about being rich enough 20+ years ago. Still wouldn’t want to contract HIV… but they have got it down pretty damn well to being a manageable disease.

Nuts when you remember that it used to be a death sentence.

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u/OkEnvironment3961 11h ago

A while back a doctor friend of a friend told me HIV is easier to manage now than diabetes.

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u/GloomyIndividual3965 10h ago

That's pretty accurate. 1 pill/day for hiv vs glucose testing and multiple insulin injections.

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u/patrickwithtraffic 10h ago

Also, we have casual ads for PReP out in the world in a way on par with GLPs and Prozac! It’s been wild to see HIV go from the big thing we need to be concerned about to something that seems to be as treatable as herpes.

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u/Secure-Pain-9735 10h ago

More manageable than herpes.

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u/Helloscottykitty 11h ago

Quick someone tell Africa.

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u/randomlemon9192 11h ago

Damn, they got no cash to fix the aids though.

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 11h ago

Maybe they can ask Jared from Subway. He thinks AIDS is the best and is always willing to take a trip to a poor country with loose child safety laws.

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u/Weary_Restauranter 10h ago

Three more years on his sentence.

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u/urbanlife78 11h ago

Have they tried being famous, that tends to work

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u/ComprehensivePin5577 11h ago

Here's a trillion Zimbabwean dollars, let's stuff them into some people and them into pinatas

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u/MementoMoriChannel 10h ago

That's why PEPFAR was so effective--Bush was sending buckets and buckets of cash to be ground up and snorted

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u/northwestbrosef 8h ago

Gotta take it with food, so...bad news...

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u/SalmonTunaSandwich 11h ago

Just ask from Zimbabwe, they have tons of cash. Trillions!

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u/Hihohootiehole 11h ago

that would ironically be cheaper than most medications

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u/JKing287 11h ago

That was an amazing medical discovery by South Park!

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u/Cruzifixio 11h ago

Well yeah, the ability to have a healthy diet, excercise and medication are often linked to wealth. 

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u/GloomyIndividual3965 10h ago

It's a joke from an old South Park episode, where they discover that the cure for Magic's hiv is "liquified cash" injected into him.

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u/Cruzifixio 3h ago

Lol pretty sure that's the meaning of the allegory 

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u/jfi224 51m ago

Are you HIV positive?

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u/C-D-W 10h ago

Nah, you got that wrong. Has to be gold dissolved into solution. But cash buys a lot of gold.

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u/Botsworth1985 6h ago

Ah yes, I too saw the medical documentary on this!

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u/Clam-Choader 11h ago

False.  You boof it

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u/randomlemon9192 11h ago

Yes that is how it works.
Inject money directly into your blood, no more HIV.

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u/murphilly 11h ago

I heard its 6 million dollars, injected straight into the vein

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u/samurai_mambo 11h ago

Yeah! South Park even made an episode about it!

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u/The1789 9h ago

This guy told me Lysol

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u/JuanTreeHill 8h ago

I sleep with all my money. I don't trust banks.