Posted on 07/09/2007 11:09:29 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Toddler Was Denied Shower Access as Well:
A couple says their vacation was ruined when an RV park owner told them they weren't welcome after discovering their 2-year-old foster son had the HIV virus. Last week, Dick and Silvia Glover went to the Wales West RV Park in Silver Hill, Ala., with their foster son Caleb. When the boy was banned from using the pool and showers, the Glovers said they were offered an uncomfortable and painful choice: They could either keep Caleb out of the water or leave.
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At a fitness club where I am a member the club forbids children under 14 years of age to even enter the hottub. This is not for safety reasons, but because young children tend to urinate in the water. And, children wearing diapers could also deficate in the water. This does pose a health hazard. This child is two and has was reported to have a serious virus that can be transmitted through bodily fluids. The park owner, I’d guess, is within his rights to ban this child once the condition was made public.
As long as the pool owner has not problem writing a big check to his attorney as well as an even bigger check when he loses a lawsuit he can do as he pleases.
I've heard it all before...
I'm still not interested in playing tonsil hockey with someone who is HIV positive.
First of all, a significant portion of what is on the internet is misleading or false. Unless one knows the answer in advance, it's a crap shoot.
I would never rely on life threatening information from the internet under any circumstances.
If you're OK with that, knock yourself out.
Certain subjects are taboo and are removed immediately, factual or not, internet or not. That is a given, as far as I'm concerned.
I have shared a house with a person with HIV AIDS. We did not kiss, but we sat at the same table, shared meals and even the same bathroom. That was 20 years ago and I am okay.
If a child has ever used a public pool, there is probably a 100% chance that they have come in contact with someone with something that is contagious and/or harmful.
I suppose I won’t hear yelling, “Free Bird!” any time soon, then. :-)
Magic Johnson wasn't going to do any of those things on the basketball court either........
Me either. But I'm not worried about catching HIV from a swimming pool.
If that is the case, why even use the Internet?
“Your ignorance truly knows no bounds does it?’
Thanks, I needed that.
No one else may have read your post but I did.
Bears repeating.....
>>My God I am amazed at the abject ignorance displayed here.
How did the second person on earth get AIDS? Answer: From the first person.
I have been a school teacher for 15+ years, I have been bled on, spit on, scratched and bitten by kids who may or may not have HIV. I can’t ask and they won’t tell me who is infected. The odds are that sooner or later I will be exposed, without my knowledge because of your half-assed amazement.
Happy swimming.<<
My girls would be the one’s playing with this boy. They have been bitten by other children. Your post has made me think.....
I’m sure there are cases of people contracting AIDS/HIV without being sure where the infection came from.
Never say never.
Just goes to show that a few NBA players are on the same intellectual level as the population of an Alabama trailer park.
Oops! Sorry, my mistake. It was an "accident." :)
I think the pool owner’s concern was not only for the safety of the other guests, but about their reaction as well. He may have been approached by other patrons and had to choose between *offending* one family and a whole hotel worth of guests. It’s a tough choice but I’d consider that he chose the lesser of two evils.
The child may be infected with more than just AIDS/HIV anyway.
Besides, considering what I’ve seen toddlers do in pools, I never liked swimming in there with them anyway.
He doesn't allow her to swim and he gets sued, and mommy gets to keep it all.
The HIV virus, btw, dies on contact, outside the body, within seconds. In contact with everyday disinfectants (i.e., in this case chlorinated water), even handsoap, immediately.
That fact comes from a researcher at GlaxoSmithKline....
Your informed choice? An informed choice is only useful if the person processing the information has an ounce of understanding. Which people claiming they are going to get HIV from swimming with someone who has it, shows they clearly do not.
HIV is not jumping person to person through pool water, if it did frankly nearly every person thats ever entered a swimming pool or watering hole would be infected.
Fortunately HIV is not spread by such means, in fact its relatively difficult to contract HIV.
HIV is not TB, its not Ebola and its not Sars or the bird flu. Its a very difficult disease to spread, if it wasn’t and could be spread by casual contact or airborn or waterborn exposure, you and I likely would not be having this conversation because one or both of us would likely be dead.
Not I. I’m the only Texan I know who cannot stand Skynyrd. :)
HATE that band. I had a fiance once who made me observe five seconds’ respectful silence after “Free Bird.” Ugh.
Cite me one case, just one in nearly 30 years of case study with anyone being infected by simply being in a pool with an HIV+ person.
It doesn’t exist.
Far more risk from those toddlers in their swimming diapers in that pool spreading a disease than an HIV+ person even with a cut being in the pool.
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