Comments on: HIV Scare At Missouri High School

Tests Conducted Over Fears That Up To 50 Teens At Suburban St. Louis School May Be Infected

[gop_will_win]

It is ignorant thinking, like your comment, that is going to cause your candidate to lose the election! I thank you and all the McPain/Failin'''' supporters for using your ignorance to help Obama win this election!!! Your support has been greatly appreciated!!!
gop_will_win...... do you even realize that you insesitive and ignorant???


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Posted by shawnp20
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Football - contact sport - bleeding - transfer virus. Who is being "ignorant"?

[myopinion381]

You said ''''people cant help it'''', and then you mentioned the Mother. Is not the Mother a ''''person''''? Does she not make educated choices? Does she not seek truth and honesty? Are you saying that women who get pregnant dont get to shoose their mate? I dont get it. Posted by DaVicar1 at 12:02 PM

What if a woman has *** with a man that doesn''t disclose that he is HIV positive? They didn''t have a choice then. Maybe that will help you "get it".

[myopinion381]

I am not one of those "I made it to the top now so I can rest on my laurels" type of people. I love new challanges. Set the bar higher I say! Posted by gop_will_win at 11:56 AM

No chance of you resting on your laurels. You don''t seem to have any.

[saransk]

What is wrong with you people!!!!
This isn''t about *** - it''s not about religion - it certainly not about politics. If we don''t educate our children as to the physical realities of *** and their bodies, the emotional aspects of sexual activity, and the ACTUAL ways (needles, tattoos, ***, etc.) to get HIV - they will continue to be at risk. We spend more time and energy teaching them to drive a car than we do teaching them to treat their bodies with respect. We can hope all we want, but risky activity happens and if we don''t inform our children, they won''t be able to make the right decision.

[gop_will_win]

I hope this school does the right thing and cancels their sports games with other schools for now. Maybe in the future there will be other schools like this and they can form a special AIDS league.

[gop_will_win]

Ignorant? Me? I dont have aids. Posted by gop_will_win at 11:34 AM

I have seen you post some nasty comments before but I don''''t think you even top that one. IDIOT!!!


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Posted by MyOpinion381
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I am not one of those "I made it to the top now so I can rest on my laurels" type of people. I love new challanges. Set the bar higher I say!

[j_m_d_2010]

I think that there should also be some type of prevention class or something along those lines. I think that we shouldn''t be grouping all the people that have HIV into one area. People should know how to prevent it. BUT, there should be some type of way to stop the spread of HIV in our nations and others.

People can''t help it if they''re born with HIV because they''re mother has HIV. It''s not due to the ***, or anything like that. It''s just a matter of people not being careful. People in other countries have HIV too, due to the lack of health care. And when they come to the US, they spread it if they don''t have knowledge of how to stop it from spreading.

[erasmus81]

Ok - so one student tested positive - I get that... I''''m sure there have been MANY students from various part who tested positive for HIV over the years. So HOW exactly does that translate to a 50 or more possible epidemic?

Posted by dogsoul at 09:32 AM : Oct 24, 2008

Well, one person has s-e-x with another person, and then that person has s-e-x with another person. And then that person shares a needle with another person and then the other person decides to tattoo a few friends, using the same needle. And on and on it goes. Wouldn''t take long.

[saransk]

While in the US we have allowed homophobia - driven by intolerant religious beliefs - to color the HIV epidemic, in the rest of the world this is a global issue that crosses racial-gender-sexual boundaries. This is a global health crisis and trying to stigmatize one group or another won''t end it. Remember - what is more important, our children''s lives, or blind faith to a particular dogma. The reactions others had about this shows how ignorant we remain about this desease

[homespunlady]

From above:
Health Department spokesman Craig LeFebvre has said the possibilities on how the students may have been exposed include sexual activity, intravenous drug use, piercings and tattoos.

That means that a local TATTOO parlor, any place that pierced ears, the local druggie OR the usual STD route could be the potential problem.

The SHAME is in the SECRECY and IGNORANCE and now the FEAR that I''d say is the REAL problem.

Every rural school around here has something similar going on. Soaring pregnancy rates, outbreaks of the more curable STDs, etc. and this IS the Bible Belt and the kids involved DON''T seem to be belonging to ANY one group.

In a nation where OVER 85 PERCENT of the population carries PARASITES of one sort or another, disease happens. We don''t talk about parasites either but they too cause illness and death sometimes if not caught in time and some of them also are not "curable" but they ARE controllable and so is HIV if SUPERSTITION, embarrassment, false pride and self-interest is dropped in favor of responsible action.

Witch hunts, finger pointing and baseless fear is not the answer.
The honest statistics have HIV infections now throughout our nation and there are numerous districts that probably have infected individuals among their population.

The smart thing is to track down the carriers, control the spread of it and find a cure.