Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!ucla-cs!uvm-gen!jay@banzai.PCC.COM From: uvm-gen!jay@banzai.PCC.COM (Jay Schuster) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: Re: PUBLIC HEALTH Message-ID: <29369@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 20 Nov 89 20:05:53 GMT References: <29317@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: The People's Computer Company, Williston, VT Lines: 24 Approved: aids@cs.ucla.edu Archive-number: 1494 Darrell.Angleton@f323.n107.z1.fidonet.org (Darrell Angleton) writes: >I find it very interesting that AIDS is the first disease to aquire >civil rights. And I remember when these types of afflictions were >dealt with a HEALTH PROBLEMS, not social causes. >Realistic in NJ Dear Realistic, It is unfortunate that there is so much disinformation flying around about AIDS, because then it *would* be possible to deal with as a health problem, instead of through legislative measures. If everyone knew that AIDS was not communicable through ordinary contact, and if there didn't seem to be such an aversion to people who had AIDS, then there would be no need to try and protect these people, just as there is no longer a need to protect people who have cancer (though there once was). No one has been giving the disease civil rights, instead people have been acknowledging that those who have the disease should not lose any civil rights by becoming sick. -- Jay Schuster uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!jay, attmail!banzai!jay The People's Computer Company `Revolutionary Programming'