Posted on 12/08/2007 12:50:51 PM PST by goldstategop
Quarantine is the basis of controlling the spread of infectious disease in both veterinary and human medicine. The technique has worked well since the 1800s and has proven itself thousands of times. Quarantine would have saved millions and stopped the disease in its tracks. Even the 3rd world public health officials in Cuba figured this out and used it to effect the extermination of said disease. Cuba has maybe a hand-full of cases. The notion that quarantine would not contain the disease merely plays on public ignorance and panders to the homosexuals.
Unfortunately, we know that HIV+ carriers have continued to pass this on to everyone else who has received it across the world. In other words, few of them apparently kept monogamous relationships from that point, forward.
I can’t wait to see how you handle the bird flu. It would seem that whomever had it would be allowed to go free until they could be found to purposely transmit it to another. You’d trust them until that point.
That’s where you and I differ.
False, we know that some who have been infected with HIV have knowingly transmitted the disease. There is a great distinction gained with that little word.
Unlike influenza, HIV is not passed through casual contact. Those who abstain from sexual contact, donating blood, and sharing needles present no danger to the public at large. The idea of imprisoning those infected with HIV to me is simply abhorant.
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