whats the big deal that Huckabee wanted AIDs patients seperated from society?

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ok either ,none of you that are making a deal about this, or no concept of history, when this was said by Huckabee it was in 92. In 1992 we didnt understand Aids the way we do today. We didnt understand the ways it was contracted ,and being it was a public epidemic and for the first time a Epidemic wasnt quarentined, like tuburculosis(sp?)

To his statement about the funding of Aids reseach should be cut because im sorry cancer and heart disease are underfunded, And i agree with him that all these celebs that run there mouths about aids reseach ,that make multimillion dollars a yr , need to either step up or shut up ?


so my question is

what is the problem with his statement in 92 when we had very little knowledge of what AIDS was all about compaired what we know today?

atleast he was man enough to answer that question unlike his democrat opponent

the dude link that i remeber in the 80s it was a gays only virus and everyone thought you could get it from a toliet seat , air born isnt the only reason to quarintine

Answer 1

I have nothing but respect for anyone who will stand out from the PC crowd and speak their mind. He gets 50 points in my book. just for honesty.

Answer 2

Your assertion is thoroughly out of context. in case you get rid of your self from the politics and look logically at his assertion you could no longer argue together with his stance. inspect the time the assertion exchange into made. We had a ailment that exchange into spreading like wildfire yet we did no longer understand how. We did no longer have a therapy. We did no longer even understand the reason. in case you had an ailment come around like this one, does no longer you quarantine the sufferers to in all probability shop billions? have you ever considered why the sufferers weren't being quarantined? the universal team that AIDS exchange into being clinically determined in exchange into gay adult men. because of the fact the government exchange into fearful of finding uncompassionate in the direction of gays we did no longer persist with CDC's quarantined a detrimental ailment. for sure, we later found out that AIDS is unfold by potential of blood and seaman, yet back we did no longer understand on the time. Huckabee additionally never mentioned 'burn the sufferers' as your assertion implies. He mentioned separate them from the universal public until all of us understand what is going on. back separate the info from the politics. isn't that what clever members of society are assume to do?

Answer 3

If any of the news media do as much research as "Dude" has done on the subject, Huckabee will either admit he was wrong (this is not unprecedented for Political candidates) and move on with his moral authority intact or he can just try and muscle through as the true politician he obviously is.

Answer 4

in 92 at the age of 12 even I knew it was safe to be around people with aids unless I was sharing needles or having unprotected sex with them, and he is not backing away from this stance, he is clearly a homophobe and a racist.

Answer 5

In 1992 we knew that AIDS could not be spread though any manner other than direct contact with infected blood or via sex.

His comments show him to be a radical fundamentalist who deserves no position in the federal government.

Answer 6

Sounded like a good idea then, and now.

Answer 7

it is actual a very good idea

Answer 8

in 92 there was at lest 5 years of evidence it wasn't a air born disease lol


give me a break , can you rationalize them on to the trains and off to the camps any harder

don't forget the hemophiliacs , it was also transmitted because the red cross didn't have adequate blood donor tests.starting in 1985, the American Red Cross and Food and Drug Administration policies prohibit accepting blood donations from gay/bisexual men, specifically from any "male who has had sex with another male since 1977, even once,"[5] or from IV drug users or recent immigrants from certain nations with high rates of HIV infection. The inclusion of men who have sex with men on the prohibited list has created some degree of controversy [1]; the FDA & Red Cross cite the public policy need to protect the blood supply from HIV & similar diseases as justification for the ban, while others believe the ban to be discriminatory, since sexually active heterosexuals are not categorically banned and all donated blood is screened. Policies vary in other countries; for instance, Australia formerly had a similar ban, but now only prohibits donating blood within one year after male-male sex (longer than the typical window period for HIV blood screening tests performed on donated blood). In Finland the parliamentary ombudsman launched an investigation on the possible unconstitutionality of the life-time ban in January 2006. The investigation continues as of December 2007.


[edit] 1930s
Researchers believe that sometime in the 1930s a form of simian immunodeficiency virus jumped to humans in central Africa. The mutated virus becomes HIV-1.[1]

[edit] 1958
A 25-year-old printer from England named David Carr, who had served in the Royal Navy between 1955 and 1957, contracts a series of mysterious ailments including Pneumocystis carinii. He dies early the next year (1959). In 1990, tests by a hospital in Manchester reveal HIV in Carr's tissue samples, and he is briefly recognized as the first known AIDS death. Subsequent, more sophisticated testing at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at New York University Medical School reveals the HIV to have been a laboratory contaminant. The source reference for this item has been removed from the CDC's website. [2]

[edit] 1959
The first known case of HIV in a human occurs in a person who died in the Congo, seemingly later confirmed as having HIV infection from his preserved blood samples (Zhu et al., 1998). However, according to the authors of the 1959 discovery, they never found, nor alleged to have found, HIV, or anything like a full virus. According to these authors, even “attempts to amplify HIV-1 fragments of >300 base pairs (bp) were unsuccessful, . . . However, after numerous attempts, four shorter sequences were obtained” that only represented small portions of two of the six genes of the complete AIDS virus. Citation: Zhu T, Korber BT, Nahmias AJ, Hooper E, Sharp PM and Ho DD. An African HIV-1 sequence from 1959 and implications for the origin of the epidemic. Nature 1998;391(Feb. 5):594-597.
In New York City, a 49-year-old Haitian-born shipping clerk dies of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a disease closely associated with AIDS victims. Dr. Gordon Hennigar, who performed the postmortem examination of the man's body, has been quoted in numerous publications saying that he believes the man probably had AIDS.[3]

[edit] 1960s
HIV-2, a viral variant found in West Africa, is thought to have transferred to people from sooty mangabey monkeys in Guinea-Bissau during this period.[1]

[edit] 1966
Genetic studies of the virus indicate that, in or about 1966, HIV first left Africa, infecting a single person in Haiti. At this time, many Haitians were working in Congo, providing the opportunity for infection.[4]

[edit] 1968
A 2003 analysis of HIV types found in the United States, compared to known mutation rates, suggests that the virus may have first arrived in the United States in this year.[1] The disease spread from the 1966 Haitian strand, but remained unrecognized for another 12 years.[4]

[edit] 1969
A St. Louis teenager, identified only as Robert R., dies of an illness that baffles his doctors. Eighteen years later, molecular biologists at Tulane University in New Orleans test samples of his remains and find the virus that causes AIDS.[5]

[edit] 1975
The first reports of wasting and other symptoms, later determined to be AIDS, are reported in residents of Africa.[6]

[edit] 1976
Norwegian sailor Arvid Noe dies; it is later determined that he contracted HIV/AIDS in Africa during the early 1960s.

[edit] 1977
Danish physician Grethe Rask dies of AIDS contracted in Africa.
A San Francisco prostitute gives birth to the first of three children who would later be diagnosed with AIDS, and whose blood, when tested after their deaths, would reveal HIV infection. The mother would herself die of AIDS in May 1987. She was clearly infected by 1977 and perhaps earlier.[7]

[edit] 1978
A Portuguese man known as Senhor Jose dies; he will later be confirmed as the first known infection of HIV-2. He was believed to have been exposed to the disease in Guinea-Bissau in 1966.

[edit] 1980
April 24, San Francisco resident Ken Horne, the first AIDS case in the United States to be recognized at the time, is reported to Center for Disease Control with Kaposi's sarcoma. He was also suffering from Cryptococcus at the time.[8]
On October 31, French-Canadian flight attendant Gaetan Dugas pays his first known visit to New York City bathhouses. He would later be deemed "Patient Zero" for his apparent connection to many early cases of AIDS in the United States.[9]
Rick Wellikoff, a gay Brooklyn schoolteacher, dies of AIDS in New York City on December 23. He is the 4th American to have died from the new disease.

[edit] 1981
January 15, Nick Rock becomes the first known AIDS death in New York City.[9]
May 18, Dr. Lawrence Mass becomes the first journalist in the world to write about the epidemic, in the "New York Native," a gay newspaper. A gay tipster overheard his physician mention that some gay men were being treated in intensive-care units in New York City for a strange pneumonia. "Disease Rumors Largely Unfounded" was the headline on Mass's article. Mass repeated a New York City public-health official's claims that there was no wave of disease sweeping through the gay community. At this point, however, the CDC had been gathering information for about a month on the outbreak that Mass's source was dismissing.
June 5, CDC reports a cluster of Pneumocystis pneumonia in five gay male drug users in Los Angeles. [1]
July 4, CDC reports clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and Pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men in California and New York City. [2]
By the end of the year, 121 people are known to have died from the disease.[1]
First known case in the United Kingdom.[10]

[edit] 1982
June 18, CDC MMWR 1982 31(23);305-7
"Exposure to some substance (rather than an infectious agent) may eventually lead to immunodeficiency among a subset of the homosexual male population that shares a particular style of life. For example, Marmor et al. recently reported that exposure to amyl nitrite was associated with an increased risk of KS in New York City. [3] Exposure to inhalant sexual stimulants, central-nervous-system stimulants, and a variety of other "street" drugs was common among males belonging to the cluster of cases of KS and PCP in Los Angeles and Orange counties." [4]
July 9, CDC reports a cluster of opportunistic infections and Kaposi's sarcoma among Haitians recently entering the United States. [5]
July 27, The term AIDS (for acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is proposed at a meeting in Washington of gay-community leaders, federal bureaucrats and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). TIME
September 24, Current Trends Update on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) - United States
CDC defines a case of AIDS as a disease, at least moderately predictive of a defect in cell-mediated immunity, occurring in a person with no known cause for diminished resistance to that disease. Such diseases include KS, PCP, and serious OOI. [...] Diagnoses are considered to fit the case definition only if based on sufficiently reliable methods (generally histology or culture). Some patients who are considered AIDS cases on the basis of diseases only moderately predictive of cellular immunodeficiency may not actually be immunodeficient and may not be part of the current epidemic.
December 10, a baby in California becomes ill in the first known case of AIDS from a blood transfusion.[9]
First known case in Brazil.[11]

[edit] 1983
In January, Dr. Francoise Barre, at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, isolates a retrovirus that kills T-cells from the lymph system of a gay AIDS patient. In the following months, she would find it in additional gay and hemophiliac sufferers. This retrovirus would be called by several names, including LAV and HTLV-III before being named HIV in 1986.[12]
CDC National AIDS Hotline established.
March, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues donor screening guidelines. AIDS high-risk groups should not donate blood/plasma products.
Australia has first death from AIDS in Melbourne, the Hawke Labor government invests in a significant campaign that ultimately gives Australia one of the lowest infection rates in the World.
AIDS is diagnosed in Mexico for the first time. HIV can be traced in the country back to 1981.[13]

[edit] 1984
April 23, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announces at a press conference that an American scientist, Dr. Robert Gallo, has discovered the probable cause of AIDS: the retrovirus subsequently named human immunodeficiency virus or HIV in 1986. She also declares that a vaccine will be available within two years.
September 6, first performance at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco of The AIDS Show which runs for two years and is the subject of a 1986 documentary film of the same name.

[edit] 1985
March 2, FDA approves first AIDS antibody screening tests for use on all donated blood and plasma intended for transfusion.
October 2, Rock Hudson, the first American celebrity to publicly admit having AIDS, dies of the disease.
October, a conference of public health officials including representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organisation meet in Bangui and define AIDS in Africa as "prolonged fevers for a month or more, weight loss of over 10% and prolonged diarrhoea".
First officially reported cases in China.[14]

[edit] 1986
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is adopted as name of the retrovirus that was first proposed as the cause of AIDS by Luc Montagnier of France, who named it LAV (lymphadenopathy associated virus) and Robert Gallo of the United States, who named it HTLV-III (human T-lymphotropic virus type III)
January 14, "By 1996, three to five million Americans will be HIV positive and one million will be dead of AIDS" - NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, New York Times
Model Gia Marie Carangi dies of AIDS related illness on November 18th.
First officially known cases in the U.S.S.R.[15] and India[16].

[edit] 1987
AZT (zidovudine), the first antiretroviral drug, becomes available to treat HIV sufferers.[1]

[edit] 1991
A little over 24 hours after issuing the statement confirming that he has been tested HIV positive and had AIDS, Freddie Mercury (Singer of the British band Queen) dies on November 24, 1991 at the age of 45. The official cause of death was bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.

[edit] 1992
In the US, AIDS becomes the leading cause of death for 24 to 44 year old men[1]
The first combination drug therapies for HIV are introduced. Such "cocktails" are more effective than AZT alone and slow down the development of drug resistance.[1]


so in short he either didnt do his reserch or is just spreading misinformation wich is far worse