Kansas GOP to legalize quarantine of HIV patients

[Hong Kong and Macau]

http://americablog.com/2013/03/aids-quarantine-kansas-hiv.html

The Kansas legislature is about to empower the state to quarantine people with HIV and AIDS. The local Fox affiliate says the legislation is expected to become law in the next few weeks.

Yes, I am aware that the blog which this article is from is biased. However as an HIV+ American I guess I too am biased.

How would such a measure be constitutional? Why don't more law-makers understand that this is a clear violation of people's civil rights? HIV is not a communicable illness. The virus is only spread by certain bodily fluids, almost none of which are shared in the public.

Why then would a quarantine be necessary? If the nature of HIV was different, ie spread by saliva, tears, toilet seats, or mucus then perhaps I could understand.

There's also an issue which nations in the game routinely receive on what's called "VODAIS"... So I see a discussion about this topic as pertinent.

DO you support the efforts by Kansas law makers to ensure a quarantine on HIV+ individuals or those afflicted by AIDS? Should there be a nationwide imposed ban?

It seems to me that yes, quarantines on communicable illnesses during outbreak pandemics or possible biological terrorist attacks may make sense or would be sound public health policy. I fail to see how this concern for public safety could be within the realm of possibility in the thinking behind this piece of legislation...

[Divair]

What in the name of fuck is this? Are we going back to the Middle Ages? (or just South Africa, where if you shag a virgin HIV will disappear?) Seriously, what in the living fuck is this nonsense. This is about as ridiculous as jailing everyone who has a cold for a month because fuck freedom and common sense, they're going to infect us all!

[Choronzon]

*snort*

Yeah, good luck defending that one before a court.

[Northern Skatchbrod]

For once a good idea from those corrupt arses.

[The Land Fomerly Known as Ligerplace]

Ban Magic Johnson.

Quarantine the infidel.

[Gandoor]

Kansas GOP

There's your answer right there.

[Individuality-ness]

I'm going to go for the shark and say maybe it's their way to make LGBT second class citizens.

Obviously, my guess is probably off.

[Greed and Death]

What in the name of fuck is this? Are we going back to the Middle Ages?

Worse than the middle ages This is Kansas. Super man is from there and he was considered the most scandalous person from the state.

[New Chalcedon]

I...I....I....

Fuck "conservatives". Really. It seems that US conservatism is incapable of seeing any little thing that might drag America kicking and screaming out of the 19th century without fighting it tooth and nail. Goddamned soulless hypocritical monsters.

[Divair]

For once a good idea from those corrupt arses.

Might sound like a good idea if you're a hermit from the 600's who thinks making people bleed will cure them of their sins or some other fucking nonsense along those lines. This is the type of authoritarian bullshit that the Constitution is meant to protect against, but apparently the GOP doesn't give a flying fuck about common sense and logic.

[Silent Majority]

What the fuck

[Ostroeuropa]

This can't possibly hold up longer than a week.
Any sane Judge will overturn it immediately, or at the very least kick it upstairs to a higher court.

[Northern Skatchbrod]

For once a good idea from those corrupt arses.

Might sound like a good idea if you're a hermit from the 600's who thinks making people bleed will cure them of their sins or some other fucking nonsense along those lines. This is the type of authoritarian bullshit that the Constitution is meant to protect against, but apparently the GOP doesn't give a flying fuck about common sense and logic.

It's much easier to cure HIV if they are all put in the same place, and it would also reduce spread of the disease. I don't know what the GOP's idea of quarantine is, but to me it would be a great way of purifying the state.

[New Chalcedon]

For once a good idea from those corrupt arses.

Oh, really? Really?

Because quarantining people who cannot spread the illness they carry through ordinary contact is such a sensible solution, you [redacted].

[New Chalcedon]

Might sound like a good idea if you're a hermit from the 600's who thinks making people bleed will cure them of their sins or some other fucking nonsense along those lines. This is the type of authoritarian bullshit that the Constitution is meant to protect against, but apparently the GOP doesn't give a flying fuck about common sense and logic.

It's much easier to cure HIV if they are all put in the same place, and it would also reduce spread of the disease. I don't know what the GOP's idea of quarantine is, but to me it would be a great way of purifying the state.

Now it's about "purification", huh?

You're talking like someone from "Stormfront".

[Gandoor]

For once a good idea from those corrupt arses.

That fact that people like you exist is disgusting.

[Ostroeuropa]

Might sound like a good idea if you're a hermit from the 600's who thinks making people bleed will cure them of their sins or some other fucking nonsense along those lines. This is the type of authoritarian bullshit that the Constitution is meant to protect against, but apparently the GOP doesn't give a flying fuck about common sense and logic.

It's much easier to cure HIV if they are all put in the same place, and it would also reduce spread of the disease. I don't know what the GOP's idea of quarantine is, but to me it would be a great way of purifying the state.

In the event of a universal cure, physically transporting people and quarantining them someplace is much, much harder than delivering the cure to them.
It wouldn't be easier.

Also, HIV doesn't spread just from letting HIV patients wander around. The vast, VAST majority of cases are undiagnosed spreads.
Someone diagnosed with HIV isn't likely to spread it at all, since they take precautions. And if they do spread it, that's reckless endangerment and we quarantine them in a place called prison (some times.)

[Northern Skatchbrod]

It's much easier to cure HIV if they are all put in the same place, and it would also reduce spread of the disease. I don't know what the GOP's idea of quarantine is, but to me it would be a great way of purifying the state.

Now it's about "purification", huh?

You're talking like someone from "Stormfront".

It is.
I've been there for some time, but I don't like racists. IronMarch is much better.

[Hong Kong and Macau]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ahf-kansas-law-allowing-quarantine-232700513.html

A little more objective source.

Seriously though, this type of legislation isn't about protecting people from contracting HIV, it's an attempt to demonize people who don't match up with the Neo-conservative religious Juedo-christian worldview.

Believe me, if I could make it so that not another person contracts HIV like me, then I wouldn't think twice at enacting such a policy...this isn't it though!

Guess what stops the spread of HIV?

Condoms, education, testing, anti-retroviral post exposure meds... Not quarantines and not abstinence indoctrination!

[Divair]

Might sound like a good idea if you're a hermit from the 600's who thinks making people bleed will cure them of their sins or some other fucking nonsense along those lines. This is the type of authoritarian bullshit that the Constitution is meant to protect against, but apparently the GOP doesn't give a flying fuck about common sense and logic.

It's much easier to cure HIV if they are all put in the same place, and it would also reduce spread of the disease. I don't know what the GOP's idea of quarantine is, but to me it would be a great way of purifying the state.

Your 1940's-esque idea of "purification" can go suck a cock. I don't care about "purification" nor about herding up people as if we're going to commit the 2nd Holocaust, only on HIV victims instead of mentally retarded folk. You can go suggest it in some fucked up cesspool like North Korea, perhaps, but not in any 1st world country where we give a fuck about rights and freedom, something that you've clearly taken for granted.

[Individuality-ness]

It's much easier to cure HIV if they are all put in the same place, and it would also reduce spread of the disease. I don't know what the GOP's idea of quarantine is, but to me it would be a great way of purifying the state.

Now it's about "purification", huh?

You're talking like someone from "Stormfront".

Is HIV the latest persucuted class by white supremicists?

[Ostroeuropa]

I'm betting these people think HIV = The Gay
and think they are quarantining gay people.

[Dusk_Kittens]

I...I....I....

Fuck "conservatives". Really. It seems that US conservatism is incapable of seeing any little thing that might drag America kicking and screaming out of the 19th century without fighting it tooth and nail. Goddamned soulless hypocritical monsters.

I believe that you are correct in this assessment.

[Forster Keys]

I shall put it plain and simple. These type of people must be stopped. And they will be. I just hope for the sake of all of us that they begin to see a little more reason sooner rather than later.

[TaQud]

I'm Surprised Thafoo didn't report this first... (unless he is busy)