From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 19:44:28 MDT
--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
> We will be lucky if the SARS genome turns out to be stable
> and we can relatively quickly develop a vaccine against it.
> As the HIV epedemic demonstrates -- we don't want to get
> it wrong -- and that includes not taking narrow-minded views
> of transmission routes that may be significantly different
> in various cultures.
At risk of attracting more flames from the GLBT crowd here, it is
specifically because we DIDN'T take the 'crank down hard and fast'
route with HIV that it is the problem it is today. The Gay activist
organizations vehemently opposed quarrantine, mandatory testing, or any
other means of identifying HIV carriers and taking appropriate
remedies, because they were flexing their political rights to hang out
in dirty bath houses, and now the result is all THEIR fault, IMHNSFHO,
contrary to the claims of Samantha, and this was long before Fumento's
'myth' comments in 1990. By 1990, the cat was out of the bag thanks to
gay activists, and there was no way to put that genie back in the
bottle.
Furthermore, the precedent set by the gay community in opposing HIV
containment remedies in favor of individual rights has caused a massive
resurgence in other communicable diseases like TB, Syphillis,
Gonorrhea, etc and hampered the ability of health care workers to nip
epidemics in the bud. The ability of the US health care system to deal
with bioterror attacks is similarly compromised as a result.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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