Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-lymph!arndt From: arndt@lymph.DEC Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Reply to Byron Howes Message-ID: <3840@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 23:40:38 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3840 Posted: Thu Oct 4 23:40:38 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 02:51:23 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 63 Where do I start?? Glad you said that my statement to the effect that Aids is "homosexually vectored" is SOMEWHAT imprecise! Because it's not imprecise by much if at all. "Intermingling of blood", yes but not from bumping into each other, unless . . . (but I'm trying to change). It's not the fact of transfusions (the act) that causes Aids! I get Aids from a carrier who donated blood. The carriers are identified as . . . (fill in the blanks). You seem to be saying pouring blood causes Aids! "Aids is transmitted through the inter- mingling of blood supply as might happen with transfusion." By the way, Aids is also transmitted through semen and some feel through saliva. What does "YOUR assertions notwithstanding, Aids is a potentially serious problem to the entire population . . . " mean?? The point of my postings was that very fact!!! Where do you read my "smug assurance" of my own safety?? I see it was late when you posted so I can only assume you were down to your last toke before you fell off your chair for the night. Why would my "smugness" frighten you?? You do have a reason to be frightened. Tonight on the NBC nightly noise there was an extended (180 sec.- so it was a heavy topic) piece on children with Aids. About 70 so far, with hundreds more projected. They highlighted the problems of one little boy under sentence of death (are you SURE that homosexuals are not responsible just a little - even those not promiscuous but who fail to speak out against fellow gays who are?) who was rejected out of fear by the school system where the doctors said he was safe to go. Administrators and parents freaked out. NO way. "I'll take my child out." Hey, it's getting bigger by the minute. You've got to do more than raise funds, teach each other to check for sores first and man hotlines. Hint: You've got to speak to fellow gays about behavior patterns (which might entail relooking at "lifestyles" ((baths, bars, etc.))). How about looking at the "sexual revolution"? Remember the young Aids victim I quoted as saying, "We were told that sex was liberating and more sex was more liberating." Rich Johnson I believe it was, whines about, "what ever happened to 'do your own thing?'" It never was. One person alone to the limits of nature but not in a society. That's the reason for government. Laws. Another, Gerber, asks "am I my brother (homosexual's) keeper?" What a waste- land if the answer to that is no!! As Aids and it's cost get bigger the public is going to look for SCAPEGOATS! Guess who? Think all those nice pols are going to help you then? So rather than marching with Sister Boom Boom and the Children's Crusade you should be marching the other way! Dump the freaks before they drag -: you down with them. Of course by dump them I mean their positions. Hey, guess what. There goes the last of the wine and I'm leaning over too far to straighten up. Hope my wife finds me in the morning. Bye Ken Arndt