Ryan White's Mom "Alarmed" By Huckabee

CBS News ^ | 12/11/2007

[dano1]

[ClearCase_guy]

Putting people in quarantine is not a moral judgement. I think it's a simple fact that thousands and thousands of lives could have been saved if the disease had been isolated.

In the very early days, quarantine was seriously discussed as an option. At the very same time, the activists in San Francisco were fighting the effort to close the bathhouses.

Which of those efforts, if successful, would have killed more people?

[kittymyrib]

This is one example of what lies in store should Huckabee be nominated. Hillary already has scripts in the can for ads that would be run against this “dangerous” Southern Baptist preacher. By election time, even his wife wouldn’t vote for him. The media has chosen him as the easiest GOP nominee to beat, and that’s why he is rising in the polls.

[Tired of Taxes]

White-Ginder - who declined in the interview to say what political party she belongs to

Oh, but I think we all can guess.

Thanks to these activists, not even school employees need to reveal if they have AIDS/HIV or not. But, don't let those kiddies into school without a measles vaccine! Oh, no, can't have them walking through the school doors possibly with the chicken pox or, Heaven forbid, the dreaded flu...

[ClearCase_guy]

The media has chosen him as the easiest GOP nominee to beat, and that’s why he is rising in the polls.

I think that's true. It always appears that the media praises Republicans whom the media perceive to have exploitable flaws.

This is one reason why the media is afraid to mention Duncan Hunter. I don't think he has any exploitable flaws.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Huck is being branded as we speak as either a freak or a fumbler. Either way, Hillary would destroy him. .

[RockinRight]

The Huck-o-matic is broken.

[BritExPatInFla]

“Thanks to these activists, not even school employees need to reveal if they have AIDS/HIV or not. But, don’t let those kiddies into school without a measles vaccine! Oh, no, can’t have them walking through the school doors possibly with the chicken pox or, Heaven forbid, the dreaded flu...”

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Measles, chicken Pox and Influenza can all be spread without exchange of bodily fluids (i.e. casual contact or airborne), AIDS/HIV cannot. But you knew that, right?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I think that if AIDS patients had been quarantined, Ryan White wouldn’t have caught the disease! He’s mom is wrong on this issue, IMO.

[Yossarian]

This is one reason why the media is afraid to mention Duncan Hunter. I don't think he has any exploitable flaws.

Spending and organization. And I like the guy.

I hope he runs for Senate to kick out Fineswine, the "Chicom import-fortune queen".

[massgopguy]

First time in history that a STD merited civil rights.

[hoe_cake]

Huckabee made the quarantine statement in 1992. Most HIV myths were put to rest by then. However, if my memory serves me correctly, there was a scare that the mosquito could spread the virus around 1992.

So even folks like myself who are more sympathetic to people with AIDS wondered in the early 1990s about the spread of AIDS outside sex and blood.

[BritExPatInFla]

First time in history that a STD merited civil rights.

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That’s another argument. However, if someone has HIV/AIDS, and their job does not involve the chance of them bleeding on or getting any other fluids on their coworkers or neighbors, should they be kept out of a job or home? To fire someone who contracts HIV/AIDS or to lock them up in quarantine is wrong, and should be illegal.

[Callahan]

If they thought it was neccessary, the media/Dems would target his ties to the defense industry and the Duke Cunningham business.

[Tatze]

Dano can’t decide if he’s for the Huckster or against him.

[edcoil]

My little brother died of AIDS/HIV in a hospice, Christmas, 1995 - I’ll talk to her and tell her what I think needs to be done.

I’ll assume she will not like it.

[Tired of Taxes]

Measles, chicken Pox and Influenza can all be spread without exchange of bodily fluids (i.e. casual contact or airborne), AIDS/HIV cannot. But you knew that, right?

Oh, that old argument. Do you honestly believe that school students don't cut, bleed, or otherwise share bodily fluids? Chances are, the flu or the chicken pox won't kill you. AIDS ultimately leads to your death. Yet, children aren't admitted to school if they just haven't had the vaccines alone for the aforementioned viruses. But for AIDS/HIV? Not even school employees are required to say that they have it.

[Froufrou]

Bingo! The Dems are calling Huckabee the ‘glass jaw.’

[Callahan]

As usual Huck was spouting off after listening to his Baptist buddies and not doing the research. An aggressive progam to identify and treat AIDs patients would have been a good idea but the image painted by the words quarantine and isolate is of rounding up sick people and throwing them in camps. It was a politically stupid thing to say and displayed his ignorance about how the disease was spread. Ever notice how Huck always errors on the side of coercive government?

[Tired of Taxes]

I’m so sorry about your little brother. How was he infected?

(My whole point is that it’s hypocritical to deny children entry to school simply because they haven’t been vaccinated for viruses that most people catch and survive, at the same time that AIDS/HIV has been politicized to the point where not even a school employee has to tell the school that he/she has it.)