Hard 2 Come 2 A Christian End 4 U2

BONO — SURRENDER, 40 SONGS, ONE STORY — 2022

Bono is an extremely well-known person today in the field of music and political activism at the world’s global level. His name is attached to the band, or the group, U2 that has dominated the rock and roll stage for at least fifty years. This longevity is the result of the Solomonic wisdom of these four musicians that always have had an expert manager who kept the collective intellectual property perfectly collective so that there could not be some kind of disbanding with each member taking away this or that part of the creative work, depriving the others of this part and depriving himself of the parts of the other members.

But Bono and U2 are also attached to various international causes and actions that make them extremely special in many ways. HIV/AIDS is one of these causes, particularly in Africa. Their position was both ethical with the protection of people against the disease and the natural and economic-social position that anyone who is sick has to be medically helped before they die. True enough concerning Africa the only help these HIV/AIDS patients could get when U2 entered the battlefield, was some help to bury the bodies. Bono and U2 managed to get Condoleezza Rice and George W. Bush on board, and it produced a real change in the field, particularly for Africa.

But that’s where we reach the limit of this fight. Nelson Mandela used a very simple argument with all laboratories: HIV/AIDS is the mass problem we know in Africa, and it originated there because both the New York Laboratory and Institut Pasteur in Paris tested their vaccines for polio respectively in the Belgian Congo and West Africa. These two vaccines were developed on the bases of liver elements to cultivate the molecules taken from two different species of monkeys that carried HIV in an endemic way, meaning without developing the disease, and yet in Kasai for example one form of the disease had been known for humans since the end of the 19th century, Kaposi skin cancer. The two labs used Beta-versions of their vaccines, both not cleaned up properly and still retaining HIV. This testing was performed on millions of children, and it took about twenty years for this virus to move from dormant to active in Africa.