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bobber205
Sep 23, 2009, 09:27 PM
I heard about this one a recent episode of Fresh Air on NPR and I google to confirm. :)

I've always thought of Mr. Huckabee to probably be one of the more moderate visible Republicans out there and I still believe he is.

It scares me that this man represents the "best of" the Republican party. :eek:

"If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague. It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents."

Link to full story. (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/3875/)


macfan881
Sep 23, 2009, 09:33 PM
actaully its more that i think 90 percent of the right wing conservatives dont actaully think before they speak or think after they speak in some cases :D
Eraserhead
Sep 23, 2009, 09:36 PM
Sounds like Kim Sung Il's policies...
jknight8907
Sep 23, 2009, 10:10 PM
(Playing the devil's advocate just for fun here).... It would solve the problem, in theory.
Ugg
Sep 23, 2009, 11:09 PM
(Playing the devil's advocate just for fun here).... It would solve the problem, in theory.

Of course, for that to work, every person capable of sex would have to be tested multiple times over the space of a year. The expense would be astronomical.

Then, there are the silent carriers, those who will never die of Aids but have the virus.

Huckabee is clueless. Nobody isolated Syphilis victims and of course Tuberculosis victims aren't isolated anymore. It has nothing to do with prevention and everything to do with homophobia.
Eraserhead
Sep 23, 2009, 11:30 PM
(Playing the devil's advocate just for fun here).... It would solve the problem, in theory.

Sure, but in return you'd be behaving like the North Korean government.

To me at least that's an extreme price to pay.

Plus in reality as Ugg says. It wouldn't work like that.
hulugu
Sep 23, 2009, 11:47 PM
But, here's the important question, can we quarantine stupid?
macfan881
Sep 23, 2009, 11:52 PM
But, here's the important question, can we quarantine stupid?

if we did i think that will be a big chunk of the world population.:D
hulugu
Sep 24, 2009, 12:01 AM
if we did i think that will be a big chunk of the world population.:D

So, what's the bad news?