Quote Originally Posted by MistahTaylor View Post
I personally dont mind proving myself with a simple little test ( all they do is rub your mouth with this swab and you get results ASAP If that small little action can help our world and catch stupid people than Im all for it AS LONG AS IT IS NOT FOR SOME HIDDEN AGENDA TYPE CAUSE LIKE DONMIKE was saying. If they are truly trying to help people then Im going to back it. Once again this is my opinion and Im not trying to be rude of forceful of my opinion but Im aloud to have one and Im not knocking anyone else by what Im saying either.. TO EACH THERE OWN. Lots of love and peace
Love KT
KT,

Unfortunately, you are not quite correct about the "rub your mouth with this swab". That test is the oral test. Currently, if that test is positive, you then take the, I forget, but either the Western Blot test or the Elisa test. That is a blood draw. If whichever one it is comes back positive, you then take the other one. That is how it is confirmed.

What's going to happen to those who refuse to take the blood test? Are they going to be "forced" to do so? Are they going to be reported? It so, to whom? Gee, is it possible that at 2 AM the health department, accompanied by the police are going to show up at their door if they refuse the blood test? What happens to the results? How confidential will the results be? Are those with positive results counseled?

Don Mike isn't wrong when he suggest the possibility of a conspiracy. Remember the syphilis testing with black men in the south where they were intentionally infected and then left untreated so that the doctors could see how the disease would progress? How, how about agent orange? Remember, we were told it was safe.

And we all know that the current administration in Washington or Sacramento wouldn't lie to us, don't we? Hmmm, wonder whatever happened to the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

It's been said here already many times......to slow down (we are never going to stop HIV/AIDS in this country or the world...too much money is being made from it and other than polio, no virus to the best of my knowledge has ever been effectively erradicated) we must have education, it must start at a young age and it must be taught in every school in the land.

Also, don't blame yourself honey....it isn't women who are the largest carriers of the disease. The black and latino population has a dis-proportionate share of the disease within it's population, followed by white 18 - 25 year old. Want to know why? The young population has NEVER been exposed to HIV. They think it's an "old gay mans disease". Most of them don't know anyone with it. Most have received virtually no education about it, how it's transmitted and how to prevent it....especially if they live in rural areas. And to make matters worse, when they get out of high school and migrate to the gay "meccas" like LA, SF, NYC, the first thing they do is pick up the free gay rags. And, what do they see? Full page or double truck ads produced by Merck or Pfizer or one of the other companies, showing young, healthy, masculine guys who are saying...."I control my HIV with one pill a day". I'd venture to say that most of these young gay men never bother to read the back of the page, where all of the side effects and precautions are written in 4 point type.

That, my dear, is what is causing the increase in HIV in this country.

Hugs,

Bill