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Tuesday, October 14, 2003

HIV BS

From Drudge we have this. Key quote: "People with HIV should feel able to disclose their HIV status without fear of rejection or discrimination".

Nonsense. They should disclose their status, period. If they don't, that's reckless disregard for their fellow citizens.

Unless you approve of behavior like this:
The most famous contemporary superspreader is Gaetan Dugas, the French-Canadian flight attendant who had sex with thousands of men all over the world in the late 1970s and early `80s. Immortalized in Randy Shilts's 1987 book ''And the Band Played On,'' Dugas was no doubt responsible for a large percentage of early AIDS cases, though just how many remains in dispute. Like Mary Mallon, Dugas hardly cuts a sympathetic figure. According to Shilts, Dugas would sometimes turn on the lights in a bathhouse after an anonymous encounter, revealing the purple lesions on his body to his partner. ''Gay cancer,'' he would say. ''I'm going to die and so are you.''
J Bowen at 10:57 PM
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