Their Hate Makes Them Blind

Let’s face it conservatives hate our guts and are willing to go all the way to putting us in concentration camps. The latest is a Georgia legislator who happens to by the wife of the former Secretary of Health and Human Services has proposed locking up HIV/AIDS patients.

Georgia lawmaker, wife of Tom Price, suggests people with HIV could be quarantined
STAT News
By Max Blau
October 20, 2017

ATLANTA — A Georgia state lawmaker — the wife of former Trump health secretary Tom Price — is drawing condemnation for suggesting that people with HIV might be quarantined to curb the spread of the infectious disease.

Republican state Rep. Betty Price, a former anesthesiologist who represents people living in the northern Atlanta area, asked in a hearing this week “what are we legally able to do” to limit the spread of HIV throughout the state.

“I don’t want to say the quarantine word — but I guess I just said it,” Price said to Dr. Pascale Wortley, director of the Georgia Department of Public Health’s HIV epidemiology section. “Is there an ability, since I would guess that public dollars are expended heavily in prophylaxis and treatment of this condition, so we have a public interest in curtailing the spread. … Are there any methods legally that we could do that would curtail the spread?”

Her remarks came Tuesday morning during a Georgia House of Representative study committee meeting about barriers to access to health care in the state, and are captured in video of the hearing. The remarks were first reported by Project Q Atlanta, a local website serving the city’s gay community.

Well besides probably being illegal, immoral, and punitive, it is the worst thing that you can do to stop the spread of AIDS/HIV.

Now, with modern drugs a patient’s viral load can be brought down to levels where they are no longer contagious and drugs like Pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) that can lower the chances of infection can be used to control the diseases. Instead the Republican Congress is cutting funding for Ryan White programs and cutting funding for PrEP. They have also done away with funding for Planned Parenthood that runs AIDS/HIV prevention programs.

And now Betty Price is doing a two-step to dodge the outrage she has caused.

Price’s wife on HIV quarantine remark: I was just being ‘provocative’
The Hill
By Brandon Conradis
October 22, 2017

Georgia Rep. Betty Price (R), wife of former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, defended her remark asking if people infected with HIV could be quarantined, insisting she was just being “provocative.”

“I made a provocative and rhetorical comment as part of a free-flowing conversation which has been taken completely out of context,” Price said in a statement published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Saturday. “I do not support a quarantine in this public health challenge and dilemma of undertreated HIV patients.”

Quarantine is the worst possible thing that you can do.

Why?

Well consider that if you think that you might have HIV would you go and be tested, knowing that if you if do have HIV you would be quarantined?

That is what happens if you quarantine patients, they don’t get tested and you have all these undiagnosed HIV positive people infecting other people.

Also in states that are forcing Planned Parenthood out of their states they are seeing a rise in STDs and it is becoming an epidemic in those states. They are also seeing a rise in Cervical and Breast cancers.

The Conservatives with their antiquated moral Puritan values are putting all our lives in danger.