[BlackElk]

Perhaps we can permanently quarantine all those who have AIDS or are discovered to have it and we can resolve your disagreement. It is the leprosy of our time and is quite cummonicable and ought to be dealt with as the public health problem that it is.

Unless and until that time, it would certainly appear that cajungirl has the best of this argument until proven otherwise which is ratherrrr, unlikely.

You ought also to consider that anal sex is merely more common among the lavender set and that some couples consisting of a man and a woman may be sharing AIDS just as the lavenders do.

Finally, when a man and a woman who are virgins and not sharers of needles with others and live up to the commitment of exclusivity in their marriage and remember always to put things only where they belong, AIDS is rather rare.

[cajungirl]

My disagreement is with his dishonest use of statistics to try to buttress his point. I do think aids is a public health problem and needs to be dealt with as such but I just don't think it is the most important public health problem deserving of a disproportionate amount of resources. And I do believe the political agenda of the gay lobby has resulted in the spread of this disease, the reluctance to take responsibility for getting it. And I think the attempt to reframe this disease as "our disease" is dishonest and manipulative. This is no more my disease than elephantiasis is and I resent the attempt to hoodwink me into thinking what I know to be false. Nevertheless it does need to be treated, a vaccine would be worthwhile and public health measures ought to be taken. I am not talkiing about interning, I am talking about the usual things done with STDS including informing contacts and reporting the disease.

[johnny7]

AIDS is rather rare.

...and preventable for the most part. That it is an 'epidemic' is to say that stupidity is also. I may have said something profound!

[presidio9]

Perhaps we can permanently quarantine all those who have AIDS or are discovered to have it and we can resolve your disagreement. It is the leprosy of our time and is quite cummonicable and ought to be dealt with as the public health problem that it is.

A close friend of mine who was a hemophiliac died of AIDS back in the 80's at the age of 14. He did not deserve to be outcast. The spread of AIDs is a symptom of the crime, not the crime itself.