Yeah, but AIDS alone doesn’t make people start bleeding all over the place, ebola does. So ebola is going to be a lot easier to catch that AIDS. Also, people with AIDS weren’t sickened by it at the start, so they could basically go on with their lives, people who have ebola get very sick and need care given to them.
I don’t think these 2 things are very comparable. The AIDS “epidemic” basically stayed within the homosexual and drug abusers universe (also some people who were given blood therapeutically). For example, I’ve never heard of a doctor or a nurse who contracted AIDS from treating a patient, I’m not saying it never happened, but if it did it was a rare and isolated occurrence.
We were told over and over again that AIDS would spread to the general population, that never happened.
In the United States, approximately 1.1 million adults and adolescents are living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and, each year, another 50,000 become infected (1). At the end of 2008, approximately 20% of the persons living with HIV had an undiagnosed infection. LINK
This means that over 200,000 people had aids, that had no idea how they had caught it. They did not participate in the things they were warned not to participate in.
Do you think it was wise to not quaranteen AIDS patients?
This is what I am getting at. I don't think hundreds of thousands of people should have been lied to, and have contracted the disease due to the government simply ignoring the danger.
If it's my spouse, child, or other family member, this is a very big deal to me.
Lets also focus on the reality that these were the figures in the 2006-2008 time frame.
What this says is that since roughly the late 1980s, the United States government implemented a police that was sure to kill off literally hundreds of thousands of the populace rather than treat an infection disease for what it was.
Think how many fewer hundreds of thousands or even millions would have died, if AIDS had been treated as the infectious disease it was.
Today we might not even have the disease in the general populace if early on it had been combated aggressively.
We may have been talking about anything from a few thousand people infected, to perhaps in the low tens of thousands of people. Instead, we have millions carrying it still in public.
Of course you were right to address who the most at risk segment of the populace was, but then this political approach was taken to supposedly protect them. Did it?
No way! It exposed this segment of our populace to the vile disease by design. Tell me that was in their favor.
We left bath houses open. We allowed infected people to infect as many others as they could. Very rarely did we see someone penalized for this.
Everyone from our nation's Surgeon General on down should be ashamed of themselves. Some of them should have done prison time IMO.