Posted on 12/10/2007 8:00:07 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20
The Republican and media establishments are eager to do something to stall the Huckabee advance to Iowa. There seem to be two or three headlines on the Internet every day. One big "revelation" over the weekend was that Mike Huckabee once suggested isolating people with fill-blown AIDS.
We'll let Huckabee respond to the charges ... but I did want to point out that there have been several instances in the last year where we have quarantined Tuberculosis patients. In one case we even tried to lock a TB patient out of his own country.
If I’m not mistaken the government has given the OK, in some form, to quarantine bird flu patients, if and when.
Huck’s opinion came in ‘92, when the case hadn’t quite been made that AIDs people could walk around and not spread the disease unwittingly.
As for the Repub establishment trying to stop the Huck bandwagon, maybe. I think their candidate is Romney, but would be comfortable with others, but not Mike Huckabee. He’s too much a on-fire-with-the-spirit-of-Christ wildcard. So they’ll try to stop him, and may do it, but it’s going to be an interesting two months. Popcorn on the stove and a good chair to sit in, we’re in for a show.
Excellent idea !!!!!
TB can be transmitted by breathing on someone. HIV cannot.
No, it’s a nitwitted idea.
I think we should quarantine pro-amnesty, tax-raising politicians, they are far more dangerous in the long run. After all, people can protect themselves from AIDS.
Fine, explain why. That is, if you can debate your point.
Justin Raimondo accused Ron Paul of wanting to quarantine gay guys with AIDS, way back in 1988, I think.
I was just a kid in 1991 and still when Magic Johnson said he was HIV-positive I knew he had most likely either been sharing needles while injecting drugs or having unprotected sex with another male who was infected. I never thought he might have got it from touching a dirty doorknob.
Since then, a half million Americans have died of AIDS, and not solely homosexuals. Thousands contracted the virus from blood transfusions in the late eighties from a tainted blood supply. Thousands of children are born each year carrying the virus. The nation has spent tens of billions, perhaps hundreds of billions counting government and private research and treatment, and still the disease spreads. The cycle must be brought to an end.
It’s time to consider future generations of America and make the nation safer and more secure for them. It would be a tough pill for the nation to swallow, but the right prescription for this deadly disease.
When Huckabee suggested the quarantine, was it known how transmissible HIV was?
From JAMA..
Other health threats from illegals include, according to the report:
Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis or "kissing bug disease," is transmitted by the reduviid bug, which prefers to bite the lips and face.
The protozoan parasite that it carries, Trypanosoma cruzi, infects 18 million people annually in Latin America and causes 50,000 deaths.
The disease also infiltrates America's blood supply. Chagas affects blood transfusions and transplanted organs. No cure exists. Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected.
Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, was so rare in America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy. Leprosy now is endemic to northeastern states because illegal aliens and other immigrants brought leprosy from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and Mexico.
Dengue fever is exceptionally rare in America, though common in Ecuador, Peru, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Mexico. Recently, according to the report, there was a virulent outbreak of dengue fever in Webb County, Texas, which borders Mexico. Though dengue is usually not a fatal disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever routinely kills.
Polio was eradicated from America, but now reappears in illegal immigrants as do intestinal parasites, says the report.
Malaria was obliterated, but now is re-emerging in Texas.
And the Huckster is worried about Aids???
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Careful — I don’t like burnt popcorn.
HIV is hard to transmit—and extremely easy for a non-infected person to avoid. On the other hand, TB and avian flu are transmitted through the air and from touching contaminated objects. Someone with these diseases can pass them on to many people through casual contact. Since these diseases are easily transmissible, have high mortality, and can be cured reasonably quickly, quarantining infected people could be appropriate.
Only a Nanny Stater would propose quarantining people with HIV. You (providing you don’t use IV drugs or have sex with other men) are more likely to be shot than to get HIV. The Nanny Stater solution to gun crime is to seize guns. Your solution to HIV transmission is to incarcerate people with HIV. Both “solutions” are inappropriate.
It is extremely anti-conservative to incarcerate people for life when they have committed no crime.
Very true. But that doesn't keep it from spreading like wildfire.
How would you suggest they get a handle on the situation?
Yeah, there's something about violating people's rights that Americans usually object to.
Efforts to abolish HIV by quarantine in America will be futile as long as it is present elsewhere.
“A QUARANTINE FOR AIDS VICTIMS”
People with AIDS are victims?
Surely you can come up with something a bit less inconveniencing, albeit a wee bit more violent -- like, say, the firing squad, maybe?
Since HIV is rather an elective infection while TB is not, educating people to use condoms, not have sex with people whose HIV-status is unknown, and not have multiple partners can go far (see Uganda's situation). For drug users, needle exchange programs can help make sure at least they aren't spreading HIV while injecting. And as long as I'm running things my way, we should legalize and license prostitution and require prostitutes to take tests for STDs.
Would you suggest quarantine for syphilis, herpes, and hepatitis?
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