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In reply to the discussion: Betty Price Wonders If People With HIV Should Be Quarantined [View all]Crunchy Frog
(28,280 posts)24. If this were enacted it would dramatically worsen the epidemic.
People facing the prospect of quarantine would simply avoid being tested and diagnosed. This would prevent them getting treatment, and discourage them from taking other steps to prevent transmission.
The treatments that they currently have reduce transmission to virtually zero.
The real agenda here is likely to increase HIV rates, increase mortality, and decrease public spending.
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Anyone who says that the 2 parties are the same is lying & has an agenda.
Madam45for2923
Oct 2017
#3
Put the conservatives in the FEMA camps! That's what their wackos talk about. n/t
RKP5637
Oct 2017
#8
I thought he was a super sized asshole the first time I saw him and then he spoke. She's in the
RKP5637
Oct 2017
#17
Her discussion was really freaky! Yes, it was about LGBT, she wants them quarantined and
RKP5637
Oct 2017
#23
She (and her just as bad half) would give a token word about everyone with HIV/AIDS but
Solly Mack
Oct 2017
#32
Also, I wonder if in her pea brain, she realizes this effects all people regardless of sexual
RKP5637
Oct 2017
#25
According to my understanding, it's currently being spread more by opiate abusers
Crunchy Frog
Oct 2017
#38