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From: arf@chinet.chi.il.us (Jack Schmidling)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Mosquitos & AIDS
Summary: try dis-information
Message-ID: <9463@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 1 Sep 89 22:40:51 GMT
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dis/e8 
 
Article 2441 (1 more) in sci.bio: 
From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) 
Subject: Re: Mosquitos & AIDS 
 
Thorson says: 
 
>Of course the chance of infection is non-zero.  But bear in mind that the 
chance is very low.  Do you think you could start a forest fire with 
a single match?  It is important to tell the public the chance is zero 
because any non-zero figure might cause an inappropriate reaction on the 
part of the public. 
 
>Would you reallyadvocate quarantine for the tens of thousands of AIDS  
patients because of that?  Or the millions of HIV positive people? 
 
>Please don't call it suppressing the evidence.  Call it benign neglect. 
 
ARF says: 
 
Call it dis-information!  Exactly my position when I started this subject. 
 
AIDS patients and HIV positives should be quarantined for reasons that have  
nothing to do with near-zero vectors such as mosquitoes.  They should be  
quantined because they are spreading a deadly disease among healthy  
populations and Big Brother's dis-information is killing people. 
 
The majority of AIDS patients brought the disease upon themselves but  
dis-informatiom allows them to spread it to others who can not control the  
behavior of the carriers. 
 
The only valid reason for soft selling the mosquito transmission of AIDS is  
to protect the ENVIRONMENT from the massive destruction that would result  
from a hi-tech, rampaging war on mosquitoes. 
 
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