From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 22:00:24 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote,
> 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.
I must disagree. HIV doesn't show any symptoms at first, often not for many
years. Most of the early symptoms are random because the immune system
failure allows various diseases to affect the host, and it is these diseases
that manifest. It also took a long time to identify the antibodies, develop
the test, and identify the specific causative virus, and even that was
disputed. We simply didn't recognize the disease or have ways of testing
people in the early years. I don't think the corrective measures you
propose could have been implemented in the beginning.
> 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.
You say that the gays acted badly, and now everyone else is too. Or in
other words, the gays acted no different than any other group that has also
faced similar situations. I think this has to do more with human nature
than gay politics.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC, IBMCP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> <www.Newstaff.com>
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