Poll Indicates Majority Favors Quarantine For AIDS Victims

[kpete]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/quarantine-flashback.html

[elleng]

1. 1985

[sharp_stick]

2. Interesting that the average

American isn't any smarter than they were 30 years ago.

[Suich]

3. Scared me for a minute!

Then I noticed the date!

[RKP5637]

4. Same here! n/t

[napkinz]

5. Never Forget ...

13 Times The Reagan White House Press Briefing Erupted With Laughter Over AIDS





In Jon Cohen’s 2001 book, Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine, he detailed the Reagan administration’s early indifference to the growing epidemic. White House acting press secretary Larry Speakes, and some of the reporters at press briefings, found the crisis to be quite the joking matter.

more at : http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/times-the-reagan-white-house-press-briefing-erupted-with

[Cha]

15. Thank you, napkinz!

[uppityperson]

6. 45% job testing, same # said might refuse to have their kids in a classroom w a pupil w aids

I remember those days too well.

[woolldog]

7. I'm not saying I agree...

but mandatory testing and quarantine would've reduced AIDS transmissions. So would tattooing.

[dsc]

11. so would boiling them in oil

or trying them as witches.

[uppityperson]

14. Lock up everyone who is HIV+ until they aren't contagious?

ie. forever? Mandatory testing and tattooing of everyone?

Holy crap.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. I remember reading that in an actual newspaper

nt

[Marrah_G]

9. This is what the Ebola outbreak reminded me of.

[liberal_at_heart]

10. K&R. We fear what we do not understand. Back then we didn't understand AIDS so we feared it.

Right now we don't understand ebola therefore we fear it. The really unfortunate thing is is back then they really didn't have the knowledge to understand AIDS. We have the knowledge to understand ebola and yet we still fear it.

[seabeyond]

13. reading your post, i kept saying to myself, but we have the info, supplying. people are purposely

refusing the info that is back with the experience the last month or more that should reinforce and ensure them.

and you recognized that. thank you

[jwirr]

12. They were wrong then to.

[Youdontwantthetruth]

16. Of course the Majority Does

The Majority was for slavery too
The Majority was for Separate but Equal too
The Majority was for Japanese interment
The Majority was for putting Native Americans on reservations

When it comes to what the so called majority wants when concerns individual rights and freedom America has a piss poor track record and is wrong the vast majority of times.

[beam me up scottie]

17. Quarantines should be used for infection control, not to make stupid people feel safe.

Fortunately for women and minorities the majority doesn't always get its way.