Huckabee has been accused of suggesting quarantine for AIDS patients in 1992. OK, I did the same back then.
I am medically trained; trained to diagnose and contain the spread of a threatening epidemic – that is “standard operating procedure” period.
The fact that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact but through (in those days) homosexual (anal/blood) sex placed it in a different category than lets say Typhus or Ebola so quarantine per se was not absolutely indicated. But we did not know much in the first days of AIDS and quarantine would not be a totally farfetched action at that time.
Huckabee was also critical of Hollywood and especially Elizabeth Taylor for trying to get the government to spend billions to find a cure “immediately”. I was also very ticked off at Liz because she never mentioned that AIDS could be prevented by the practice of safe sex; she did not want her boys to have to wear a condom, it would diminish the pleasure somewhat.
Huckabee was angered by the government directing billions away from cancer, etc. to find a cure without first having an effective prevention program in place – I agree and was also mad at this irrational approach to handling an epidemic. He suggested that Hollywood fund the research and I suggested Liz Taylor pay for it if she wanted a cure so bad.
We now know a lot more about AIDS and it no longer is a homosexual disease but afflicts many non-homosexuals. We did let it go out of control and now are having a hard time getting it under control but that is another subject.
I agreed with Huckabee on his AIDS stance in 1992 but we part ways as far as homosexuality is concerned but then he IS a Baptist Minister and that is that!
For me he may be an OK person but not presidential material at all!
I am medically trained; trained to diagnose and contain the spread of a threatening epidemic – that is “standard operating procedure” period.
The fact that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact but through (in those days) homosexual (anal/blood) sex placed it in a different category than lets say Typhus or Ebola so quarantine per se was not absolutely indicated. But we did not know much in the first days of AIDS and quarantine would not be a totally farfetched action at that time.
Huckabee was also critical of Hollywood and especially Elizabeth Taylor for trying to get the government to spend billions to find a cure “immediately”. I was also very ticked off at Liz because she never mentioned that AIDS could be prevented by the practice of safe sex; she did not want her boys to have to wear a condom, it would diminish the pleasure somewhat.
Huckabee was angered by the government directing billions away from cancer, etc. to find a cure without first having an effective prevention program in place – I agree and was also mad at this irrational approach to handling an epidemic. He suggested that Hollywood fund the research and I suggested Liz Taylor pay for it if she wanted a cure so bad.
We now know a lot more about AIDS and it no longer is a homosexual disease but afflicts many non-homosexuals. We did let it go out of control and now are having a hard time getting it under control but that is another subject.
I agreed with Huckabee on his AIDS stance in 1992 but we part ways as far as homosexuality is concerned but then he IS a Baptist Minister and that is that!
For me he may be an OK person but not presidential material at all!
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