Right on.
None of the posts here have struck on simple fact that you can’t get HIV from swimming in a pool with someone who has the virus. If you tell yourself that you wouldn’t get into the same pool as someone with HIV (barring, for argument’s sake, a situation in which the person were bleeding copiously while you were tending to your score of gaping wounds), then you could use some basic education on how HIV is transmitted.
That is exactly what the pool owner was trying to do. He was informed that a child has a serious and life threatening disease. He told the parents of the child that he needed some documentation from a more qualified source that his own memory that the child posed no threat to the other patrons of his pool. The parents decided to ignore his request.
The pool owner may be ignorant of the manner in which HIV is spread, but because of his ignorance he decided to be safe and ask for documentation from a doctor to ensure the child was not a risk to the other patrons.
He (the pool owner) was seeking education from a qualified source. The parents decided they could make some undeserved noise on the entire episode.
From the article...""We weren't sure if somebody could get the virus if the child upchucked on them or from blood or what," said Ken Zadnichek, the park's owner. "We didn't know what the risk was. That's why we asked for something from their doctor or the county health department."
Dick Glover said the request for a doctor's note made it clear Caleb was unwelcome.
An Alabama newspaper quoted Zadnichek as saying, "I'm not responsible for their feelings. I'm responsible for the well-being of everybody in the park. If their feelings got hurt, I'm sorry. That's the way it's got to be."