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First of all, any kid who plays sports and gets an open cut or scrape is treated immediately by someone with gloves and is bandaged.

What about little Johnny who gets bored in class and picks a scab, opens a wound and is walking outside after school when Bubba gets mad and spits on him? Do you see where I'm going with this? The odds of Bubba having AIDS is nill, and sports is not the culprit. Kids can't be kept in a bubble. I haven't heard of any cases where a child got HIV from playing sports. This isn't worth discussing any further, IMO.

This isn't worth discussing any further, IMO.

LOL...good thing you don't work in a school! Because now school districts have to inform employees that little Bubba may have an HIV infected mom, and little Bubba doesn't even know he's infected, or his mom knows but hasn't even told the school district. So, it's very important for teachers and other school employees to be aware fo the risk.

HIV does not "go away" after you get it - there's no surgery or drugs that really eliminates the condition. If you would feel comfortable getting it and living with it, you have a lot more guts than I do. IMO, there's plenty of other things for kids to do than play contact sports with jocks who, in all liklihood, are probably the most sexually active in the school. But, to each his own!