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Originally Posted by Bigfella
For someone who claims a lack of interest in this topic, you seem determined to waste time on it.
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I said I was sick of hearing about it, not that I didn't have a position or that I can't defend it.
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As I already stated, a timely response to any epidemic is crucial. HIV was allowed to get loose & kill hundreds of thousands before Washington acted. Misplaced puritanism made the 'safe sex' message much harder to get out, while it is apparently still illegal in some states to hand out clean needles. These policies work.
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Actually the needle thing doesn't necessarily work. I just read an article on that the other day, and I'm flipped if I can remember where, darn it. And why should I pay for some junkie to have a safe nod anyway? Screw 'em and their stupid hobby. And likewise, why would anyone encourage behavior that they think is wrong?
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Yeah, its called 'the rest of the world'. Try looking it up.
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Except for Commie Rumania's old blood transfusion policy, China's current rural blood transfusion policy, and Africa's nutty "screw a virgin" policy, it's the same. Stop the stupid behavior and the disease is stopped in its tracks.
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I have already shown you the best way. And guess what? IT WORKS. the UK adpoted the exact same policies as Australia and has the same rate of HIV infection. It is SIX times, I'll repeat that, SIX times lower than the rate in America. This doesn't require speculation. The facts are there. American policies, or the lack thereof, resulted in a much larger epidemic than necessary.
And back to my original point, it was people like Huckabee who prevented an effective response in America. Fortunately Australia was not cursed with a powerful evangelical/conservative segment of society to stand in the way of our policies. We implemented them. They worked. End of story.
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How did these evil people implement their evil policies then?
-dale