From: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (James Woodyatt)
Subject: Re: AIDS and those damn democrats
Reply-To: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com
Organization: Abiogenesis 4 Less
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:38:19 GMT

Apologies to those overly sensitive denizens of talk.bizarre who are
too lazy to put /*AIDS/:j in their killfiles, but still get miffed
when folks argue politics in the wrong group.

But I REFUSE to subscribe to a.p.bush or a.p.clinton just to flame Mr.
Fusco here into next week.

So. Killfile me now.

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In article <1992Jul30.171235.20252@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, fusco@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew Fusco) writes:
# bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (James Woodyatt) writes:
# 
# >In article <1992Jul29.165111.11674@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, fusco@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew Fusco) writes:
# ># If AIDS can be compared to the bubonic plague, as you suggest, then perhaps
# ># we should quarantine all AIDS sufferers. With the rising numbers of AIDS
# ># patients suffering from an incurable strain of TB, which could be quite
# ># contagious, maybe this is the way to go.
# 
# >Congratulations, you FUCKHEAD! You just pressed *my* favorite joy
# >button!
# 
# My, my. I suppose certain ideas just can't even be discussed! I don't know
# about the success rates of other quarantines, but I'm sure we can agree that
# a successful quarantine of AIDS sufferers would certainly slow down the
# spread of the disease tremendously.

Are you going to start whinging about ``political correctness'' now?
You're a moron. A buffoon. If you had even two neurons to rub
together, you'd immediately commit seppuku in shame and horror for the
idiotic things you've posted on a world-wide network.

We can discuss quarantining AIDS patients until the sun burns out --
it won't change the fact that quarantines are only justified for
preventing the spread of disease in only the most obscenely rare
cases. AIDS is *NOT* one of them.

The only people who think quarantining AIDS patients is a good idea
are morons like you who don't have even a cursory understanding of the
success rates of quarantines, let alone a clue about how HIV is
spread, and Fidel Fucking Castro, who regularly rounds them up and
puts them in `camps.'

# Quarantining people is an unfortunate but reasonable conclusion when faced
# with an epidemic such as this. 

Die, you greedheaded ignoramus. If Wild Bill Dannemeyer gets his wish
that every PWA and HIV+ person in the country is rounded up and
`quarantined,' here's hoping you're one of the lucky ones on the
Boxcar Express to Hell.

# I don't care how emotional people get over this topic, because I believe
# it is an idea worth discussing if we are EVER to seriously combat this
# disease.

More than half of all Americans believe that the positions of the
stars in the sky have an influence over their daily lives. But that's
*harmless* stupidity. *You*, sir, are of the malignant stupidity
variety, and I invite you to take your Spotlight magazine faux-
intellectual Call For Open Debate, fold it all up so it's all nice,
sharp corners, and...

		...you know the rest.

-- 
J H Woodyatt (a.k.a. Dr. Strychnine)
Space Systems/Loral

"In space, I would make hi-fi gravity waves to transmit my compositions
to people in their sealed spacesuits, who would automatically dance."
                                   -- Bill Gibson (billbill@wetware.com)