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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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NAMBLA initiative?


5 posted on 06/27/2012 6:30:03 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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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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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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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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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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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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Are you that backwards? Go to Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya; mostly heterosexuals between those ages (13-64, and some newborns as well)have AIDS, and the lack of testing helps that disease spread like wildfire.I should want to know if I had HIV before I infected my future wife or have intercourse with my girlfriend, and besides, I hear that if one can catch [it] early, there are new medications out there to keep one healthy for years. You could have it and not know till it’s too late.


24 posted on 06/27/2012 9:38:18 AM PDT by Joshua Marcus
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I suspect this is largely about reducing stigma and fear of testing.

The higher rates of new cases are among blacks. Perhaps this can help some but that population is culturally averse to routine testing such as annual mammograms. The Obamas could've made inroads but it's just another area where they've failed to lead.

It is odd considering the push to reduce healthcare costs and eliminate unnecessary testing ...

27 posted on 06/27/2012 5:58:59 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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