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Old 10-20-2014, 07:46 AM
 
Location: San Antonio Texas
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Originally Posted by Felix C View Post
In the 1980s AIDS/HIV was a problem for people on the margin of society: Homosexuals and needle using drug users. Nobody gave a damn about them.

Ebola could affect anyone in mainstream society.
You forgot the Haitians.
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Old 10-20-2014, 07:46 AM
 
Location: Annandale, VA
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Last I heard you couldn't get AIDS from someone sneezing.

Your comparison is no where near analogous.

AIDS is a self-inflicted condtion.
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Old 10-20-2014, 07:51 AM
 
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Yeah, but stories like that don't go along with the narrative. I asked "What about people who got it from blood transfusions?" elsewhere and that was ignored.
What narrative? Ronald and Nancy Reagan met with Ryan White. Reagan had him share his story with the President's Commission on AIDS.
Ryan White's Testimony before the President's Commission on AIDS - Wikisource, the free online library

And Reagan wrote a very sweet memorial of his "dear young friend" after Ryan's death.
A Tribute To A Life Cut Short - Daily Press

Ooops, there goes the whole silly premise of this thread that wasn't even comparable from the start.
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Old 10-20-2014, 08:38 AM
 
Location: Miami, FL
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I recall here in Miami a dentist purposely infected one of his patients with HIV/AIDS to bring attention and relief to homosexuals who were suffering. He left a note to this effect because of course he died as did the young lady so infected. Afterwards, strict requirements were codified for dental workers.
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Old 10-20-2014, 09:52 AM
 
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AIDS is a self-inflicted condtion.
More children will contract HIV this year than the number of Americans who have ever had (either currently living with or died from from 1969-today) HIV/AIDS.
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Old 10-20-2014, 09:55 AM
 
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Reagan had someone flown in from another country who had aids to attempt to cure aids?
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Old 10-20-2014, 11:22 AM
 
Location: NC
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Reagan did plenty of wrong things, you could even argue the response to AIDS was flawed however comparing that to what is going on now is ridiculous.
Agreed:

Ebola: 1 American Dead and 3 confirmed cases
Aids: Over 20,000 Americans dead or infected before sitting President would even acknowledge it.


As bad as Obama has been, I don't think he's slipped to Reagan levels on the "Screwing America" scale....
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Old 10-20-2014, 11:23 AM
 
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How did aids get to America?
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Old 10-20-2014, 11:25 AM
 
Location: NC
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AIDS is a self-inflicted condtion.
In addition to the fact (already noted) that kids being born with it do not fit your narrow and incorrect view, it is also important to note that due to Reagan's inaction, people were getting it from blood transfusions. I lost a friend who contracted AIDS from a transfusion, which was needed after a car wreck (which incidentally, he was stopped at an intersection and got broadsided), in no way self inflicted.

Your comment is ignorant of reality.
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Old 10-20-2014, 11:25 AM
 
Location: Gone
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Oh, give me a break!!!

There is no, absolutely none, zip, zero, nada, similarity between the spread of AIDS, which is only contracted through sexual contact, and Ebola.

Obama's irresponsible failure to take the most obvious preventative measure, that of restricting or banning flights altogether from West African countries known to be dealing with this epidemic, is worthy of blame for the virus entering the United States, and also, his bringing the victims here for treatment in the first place was also a big mistake.
AIDS is not contracted only through sexual contact it is the same as Ebola as in it takes the transfer of bodily fluids, I see you know lots about AIDS, probably about the same when it comes to Ebola.
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