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Wednesday Is National HIV Testing Day
yahoo.com ^ | June 27, 2012

Posted on 06/27/2012 6:11:41 AM PDT by grundle

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I remember back in the 1980s, they had all these public service announcements telling you how hard it was to contract HIV - that you couldn't get it from shaking hands, touching a doorknob, sitting on a toilet seat, etc.

But now they're saying that everyone between 13 and 64 should get tested, as if it's now somehow gotten easier to contract the virus.

1 posted on 06/27/2012 6:11:46 AM PDT by grundle
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It still takes weeks or even months for the virus to show up in standard blood panels. Additionally, false-positives are common and could leave someone devastated thinking they have the disease before taking the test again after a few weeks.

If you’re in a heterosexual monogamous relationship, there’s absolutely ZERO need for an HIV test. This is a disgusting ploy by our government and the media.


2 posted on 06/27/2012 6:18:29 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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It never ceases to amaze me that the very people who wouldn’t dare let tap water touch their lips or who begin coughing uncontrollably when near the slightest whiff of tobacco smoke don’t give a damn about homosexuals spreading AIDS or about getting ink injected under their skin for a tattoo.


3 posted on 06/27/2012 6:18:53 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'll cling to my religion, cigars and guns till they're pried from my cold dead fingers!)
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This is conditioning. It is the mainstreaming of aberrant behavior.


4 posted on 06/27/2012 6:22:19 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: grundle

NAMBLA initiative?


5 posted on 06/27/2012 6:30:03 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: rarestia
If you’re in a heterosexual monogamous relationship, there’s absolutely ZERO need for an HIV test. This is a disgusting ploy by our government and the media.

That being said it is even very difficult to get HIV by most forms of sex. Drug needles and anal sex is about it-blood contamination. Even infection rate by oral sex, semen contact is only .04%

6 posted on 06/27/2012 6:33:00 AM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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I’ve looked into adopting babies with HIV from other countries. Surprise, there are babies born IN THE USA with HIV! Yes, more people should be tested. Especially sexually active (even just with your man/husband) Latinas and black women.

No, people not I risk groups don’t need testing. But there are good, religious married women in the above groups who get it, don’t know it, and pass it to their unborn.


7 posted on 06/27/2012 6:33:07 AM PDT by Yaelle
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The same government who is discouraging at risk populations from getting proven life saving mammograms and PSA tests because they are being done “too frequently” now is telling us that everyone between 13 and 64 should have regular HIV testing just because.


8 posted on 06/27/2012 6:36:57 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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The same government who is discouraging at risk populations from getting proven life saving mammograms and PSA tests because they are being done “too frequently”
9 posted on 06/27/2012 6:41:00 AM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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And what do they plan on doing if everyone gets this? I don’t trust ‘em.

Isn’t it great not to trust the intent of your gov’t? Its not like they’ve never done anything to have me lose this trust or question the motivation...eh?


10 posted on 06/27/2012 6:41:11 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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I didn’t want to quote anything out of my sphere of knowledge. I knew the contraction rate was low for normal, heterosexual sex.


11 posted on 06/27/2012 6:42:27 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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The same government who is discouraging at risk populations from getting proven life saving mammograms and PSA tests because they are being done “too frequently”

Most doctor groups are now saying these test are done too frequently. Lot of these "frequent test" arose from lawyers torts cases...docs afraid of getting sued so they did every test every year to cover themselves.

12 posted on 06/27/2012 6:47:26 AM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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we wouldnt want the true high risk people to feel stigmatized by being singled out now, would we?

this is like the TSA- submit everyone to useless instrusive procedure to be “PC”

And who is responsioble for the damage if a 13 yr old gets a false positive and commits suicide?


13 posted on 06/27/2012 6:53:05 AM PDT by silverleaf (Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell)
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Alright you Sheeple, line up in columns and submit yourself for HIV testing, the data will of course (snicker) be confidential and private (and stored securely in the 0bamaCare national database, you suckers.)
14 posted on 06/27/2012 7:00:49 AM PDT by mkjessup (Finley Peter Dunne- "Politics ain't beanbag")
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To: WKUHilltopper
And what do they plan on doing if everyone gets this? I don’t trust ‘em.

Isn’t it great not to trust the intent of your gov’t? Its not like they’ve never done anything to have me lose this trust or question the motivation...eh?
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We are being conditioned for Obamacare.

I feel certain, that if obamacare is fully implemented, we WILL take any dang test that the government tells us to - to “keep down costs”.

15 posted on 06/27/2012 7:05:59 AM PDT by KittenClaws (A closed mouth gathers no foot.)
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To: grundle

Everyone has AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
Everyone has AIDS!

And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of AIDS)

Well I’m gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There’s a hero inside of all of us
I’ll make them see everyone has AIDS

My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades

Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog ‘ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C’mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
AIDS! x 20


16 posted on 06/27/2012 7:15:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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we wouldnt want the true high risk people to feel stigmatized by being singled out now, would we?

this is like the TSA- submit everyone to useless instrusive procedure to be “PC”

Exactly. A local TV station where I live runs abstinence ads (cartoons) and cites that group of people for "high risk". The particular group in the ad is not LGBT. But it has the highest HIV rate in the country.

17 posted on 06/27/2012 7:18:20 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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That gets me too. I am not involved in the risky behaviors which spread HIV. So why should I be routinely tested?


18 posted on 06/27/2012 7:19:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/in-dc-hiv-infection-rate-nearly-doubles-for-some-poor-black-women/2012/06/20/gJQAXIqKrV_story.html

“Unlike other cities where the at-risk population might be concentrated among intravenous drug users or men who have sex with men, Washington has a very “mixed epidemic,” with a huge burden falling on heterosexual African Americans. Officials said 90 percent of all women with HIV are black. Pappas estimated that 20 percent to 30 percent of the District’s HIV-positive population “is probably walking around infected and don’t know it,” he said.”

the HIV infection rate for black heterosexual women in DC is estimated at 12%

I can remember back when that rate in Zimbabwe was used to predict a pandemic

So the real need is to HIV test minority teenagers (12 and up) and anyone who has sex with them, from poverty infected areas, maybe save a few lives


19 posted on 06/27/2012 7:29:39 AM PDT by silverleaf (Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell)
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OK, for the 8 trillionth time, this is useless. This is an ANTIBODY test, not an ANTIGEN test. It proves nothing more than that at some point in your life you were exposed to a harmless, ubiquitous retrovirus that never killed anyone. Now AZT, a DNA chain terminator did KILL a lot of people, but not HIV.

My hat is off to the homos who have played this farce brilliantly since 1976. They duped millions and raked in millions on a totally fraudulent basis. And now we have same sex marriage and kindergarten kids being taught how to slip a condom on a banana. Good grief what we let these sleaze get away with right under our very noses. El stupido!

20 posted on 06/27/2012 7:40:44 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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