Health,
Regarding HIV
you said,
“I see you read Wikipedia!” ….. “How do you know?”
Again, I fail to see how your statements above address my points. I wrote the questions I have on your position below.
1.) Why do you assume that people would want to be tested knowing that if they test positive they will be quarantined for life in order to receive pain meds in the future? Once you consider that people test positive for HIV 10 to 15 years before even feeling sick, your assumption is even harder to swallow.
2.) Considering that even in the “at risk population” there were at least 6000 people in the USA infected from direct contact with contaminated blood products from companies like Hemo Carribean in the 70s; and considering that they did not know that they were infected, why would you assume that the disease would stay confined to that population? People who receive blood products do not only have relationships with others who have received them.
Once you consider the thousands who at some point in the 70s had used an intravenous drug and that the G– community was mostly underground with many of them maintained a facade of being married or being in a regular relationship this assumption as well gets a whole lot harder to swallow.
Regarding Ebola,
Sending qualified medical proffesionals to the affected areas to deal with the disease and help educate the public on how to avoid infection as well as to help treat the disease does help get it under control.