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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — In an effort to protect the public from infectious diseases, a proposed bill in Kansas has some feeling ostracized. That’s because the bill allows people with HIV or AIDS to be quarantined.
Right now, if a firefighter or a paramedic in Kansas is exposed to bodily fluids while treating a victim, they need a court order to get that victim’s blood tested for infectious diseases. But lawmakers are close to passing a new law eliminating that court order. Some, though, say the new law discriminates against those who have HIV or AIDS. That’s because lawmakers have written in the legislation that anyone who has HIV can be quarantined, or in other words, isolated from the general population.
Kansas banned quarantining those with AIDS back in 1988, but if this law is passed, those in the LGBT community fear health officials — especially those in rural areas — will begin intimidating those with HIV by threatening to quarantine them.
Lawmakers say that is not the intent of this law, that they want to give health officials the ability to quarantine those with infectious diseases if need be. But since the way people are infected with HIV is so different from many other infectious diseases like TB and Hepatitis, AIDS activists don’t believe HIV patients should ever be threatened by health officials.
“They didn’t get that whole idea of being discriminated against,†said Cody Patton, Positive Directions Inc. “And they didn’t get that that stuff still happens today. My concern is that there’s a lot of people in this state that are still fearful of HIV that don’t look at factual information.
Lawmakers in both the House and Senate are currently working together to get this law passed, so expect them to vote on it — and most likely pass it — in the next few weeks.
Unfortunately many homosexuals like to seek out HIV infected people to act out some sort of fetish. Someone posted it yesterday. Truly sick stuff. When you factor in the high rates of promiscuity of homosexuals I could see how quarantine could be seen as an effective option but it's a little too late. Should have done it when AIDS came out.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — In an effort to protect the public from infectious diseases, a proposed bill in Kansas has some feeling ostracized. That’s because the bill allows people with HIV or AIDS to be quarantined.
sounds like a good idea to me.
if we get rid of the carriers we get rid of the disease.
Well, perhaps it's a big reason why Kansas for as large as it is in area, ranks 33rd in population, and only has about 2.8 million residences. Christ, there is more people in a 16 country area of NE Ohio alone. As I said, the beauty of this country is that we can move anywhere if we don't like the current location. However; being that I do want to one day see every state in this country, I guess that Kansas would be included, as I've not been there yet.
You said: beauty of this country is that we can move anywhere if we don't like the current location.
There is no beauty if a cop from Kansas decides to harass an HIV person. I wonder if they could just suspicion you have HIV and quarantine a person?
Using harassment to force people out of Ks is not beautiful. This is a concern of many.
What does that matter? they got it from either a hospital or a blood bank and administered in a medical institution.
What does that matter??? Are you kidding me?[/quote]
No i am not kidding at all. Some here say if you have HIV you have participated in HOMOSEXUAL behavior and we know that is not the truth. There are quite a few people that have HIV and got it from a transfusion. Why do you hate them as well?
Since reading this thrEad i see only 2.8 million in KS. I wonder how many are HIV?
Looks like, as usual, you opened your little mouth before engaging your brain.
If you go back and re-read the post I clearly stated I was referring to the other poster and not you.
I'm particularily amused however by not only your misreading of my post but the botched insult about my "little mouth".
I wrote "oh snap" because you made a clever comment.
Now let's see how you respond after I've explained things for you with my "little mouth". LMAO.
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