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Huckabee Wanted to Isolate AIDS Patients (in 1992)
Guardian Unlimited ^
| December 8, 2007
| ANDREW DeMILLO
Posted on 12/08/2007 7:34:01 AM PST by dano1
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To: Callahan
Yes, and I hadn’t even read yet the second article about his views on gays, which “might not help him much” in the general election. LOL.
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posted on
12/08/2007 12:14:08 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Yeah. I dont know if I am right or not, but I thought quarantines were used for other types of diseases. We never had quarantines for other sexually transmitted diseases, at least not that I know about. Huckabee just didn't have the balls to advocate killing people with AIDS/HIV. His proposal for a lifelong camp/quarantine for people who have a particular incurable STD is not substantially different. Huckabee must have been a member of Westboro Baptist Church in 1992.
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posted on
12/08/2007 2:27:41 PM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: rintense
He was educated in Arkansas, which isn’t much different from not being educated at all.
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posted on
12/08/2007 2:28:57 PM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: lgwdnbdgr
Mike Huckabee is from the government and he’s here to help you.
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posted on
12/08/2007 2:30:47 PM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: GraniteStateConservative
You don't help by making statements like that. You end up sounding like those Westboro Baptists yourself when you say killing them would be the same thing. What about all those who died from the disease since 1992? Maybe the absence of a quarantine killed them.
He wasn't thinking of punishing anyone. He was thinking of protecting the public health. Whether he was right or wrong to believe a quarantine could have helped, you are wrong to say it is the same thing as killing them. There is a long history of public quarantines over communicable diseases. Europe had one for syphillis before there was a treatment for that.
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posted on
12/08/2007 2:40:48 PM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: DoughtyOne
They were just normal people who came down with the disease.More likely they are lying about cheating on a spouse, being on the 'down low' or using drugs.
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posted on
12/08/2007 3:31:19 PM PST
by
mbraynard
(Tagline changed due to admin request)
To: dano1
To: dano1
AIDS and HIV were treated with political correctness and not handled as a dangerous disease in the 1980s and early 90s. Huckabee was right then.
If HIV/AIDS had been treated with the same caution and care as TB was in the 1930s and 40s, many thousands of people would still be alive today.
Ws were told (from the CDC, no less) not to wear gloves or masks because it made the patients feel ‘isolated’. I remember a nurse friend of mine was fired for refusing to treat an AIDS patient unless she could use mask and gloves. She was pregnant at the time.
She sued and won her job back and a nice settlement.
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posted on
12/08/2007 10:20:47 PM PST
by
Islander7
("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
To: dano1
AIDS - the only infectious disease in the history of humanity that could not quarantined for fear of the PC crowd.
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posted on
12/09/2007 4:08:44 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: Islander7
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posted on
12/09/2007 4:14:12 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: RatsDawg
Well, since we *didn’t* treat AIDS like we would other epidemics and it’s now uncontainable, funding a cure is the only thing left.
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posted on
12/09/2007 4:27:16 AM PST
by
PLMerite
("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
To: mbraynard
That information is generally taken in confidence. It’s used only for statistical purposes. While I don’t dismiss your conclusion completely, there are still people who have been married for a long time, have been monogamous for a long time and haven’t practiced the unsafe methods of obtaining the disease.
The claims of this being a sexually transmitted or blood to blood transmitted disease is true for the most part. IMO, unfortunately, that isn't the whole truth.
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posted on
12/09/2007 12:53:54 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(California, where the death penalty is reserved for wholesome values. SB 777)
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