Reply To: Stopping diseases

000646 -“1.) I’m not making any assumptions. Why would you assume that for 30 years the disease was only circulating in certain populations? Most people didn’t know if they had it at that time as more and more people got educated about it more and more cases were noticed everywhere.”

Of course you are making assumptions! Do you have any medical education? There might not have been a diagnosis of Aids, but there was diagnosis of the opportunistic infections & Kaposi disease.

“Also even just “intravenous drug users” is way too big of a group to quarantine in any case. That group alone would include an incredible amount of people, how do you think they would track down anyone who had used an intravenous drug in the previous 10 years??”

You obviously didn’t read my posts! I wrote they should have required them to be tested.

“2.) Outbreaks start with 1 person. 1 person can expose hundreds of people in just a few hours (just has to take a plane and then an airport shuttle etc.) by trying to block off half a continent and not trying to stop the epidemic over there it is virtually guaranteed that people will slip through the cracks eventually, the only difference then will be that the virus would have had more time to mutate.”

Noone said -We have to stop any chance of getting the disease. Why do you think it’s Ok for the West Africans to come here?