Lester Kinsolving of WND:
With the unlikelihood that much of the Sodomy Lobby will follow Larry Kramer's poignant call, it is now time for mass hospital prison-camp quarantines for all those like this anonymous AIDS case, who has infected hundreds of other men.
Note: He's referring to the crystal meth addicted NY man who may have a "rare strain of HIV that is highly resistant to virtually all anti-retroviral drugs." This man may also have had unprotected sex with hundreds of men. But having unprotected sex with does not equate with "has infected hundreds of other men."
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What, are you waiting on a pile of dead bodies to appear as "evidence"? Have you so soon forgotten Gaetan Dugas?
PS: I am not agreeing with Kinsolving that we should start quarantining, and am loathe (been burned too many times) to trust WND for anything anymore. I'm just questioning your knee-jerk denial that there is any problem until we have "proof" of a public health crisis. We've been down that road before, and the legacy of Dugas's bathhouse exploits is a mass grave a mile long and a mile wide.
Better a pile of bodies, than a new wave of sexual stigma, right Jon?
Of course we shouldn't wait until the dead bodies pile up; but we also ought not be too quick to jump to conclusions.
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2005_04_03_dish_archive.html#111263267378590655
Yeah, well i don't read the Dish anyore for the same reasons i dont read WND. Agenda driven reactionaries, all of em. Can't trust half of what they say.
I am not neccesarily suggesting that Kinsolving is not also an agenda driven reactionary. I don't even know the man. ;)
Second, i'm advocating MORE caution here, not less. Thank God that we are far better equipped to deal with the next venereal superbug than we were for the last.
Anti-gay bias? Been there done that. I'm just commenting on a glimpse of Jonathans knee-jerk PRO-gay bias -- the same sort of thing that got us here in the first place, by treating the problem too lightly, and taking it too personally, the first time around.
I thought that was a lesson learned.
But please, don't make these false allegations. They aren't helping anything.
Sigh...Here we go again...
(and i hope like Hell i'm wrong and you're right)
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