Re: AIDs testing and privacy

At 7:28 AM 09/07/94, Mike Markley wrote:

>What about being denied a job because you have been treated for some
>disease? How about being denied a loan because your medical history has
>a profile that indicates that your life expectancy is shorter than the
>duration of the loan? It seems that the potential for abuse is so great
>that we should not allow such cross referencing.

Another example- A Lyndon LaRouche type could get elected.
(I personally don't have enough faith in the Folk At Large
not to hand someone like that power) "Starting tomorrow,
all Hawiian Citizen Units will begin moving to the mainland.
Some of the smaller islands have been cleared, and HIV+
units are being relocated as this address is being broadcast..."

-j

On Wed, 7 Sep 1994, Jamie Lawrence wrote:

> Another example- A Lyndon LaRouche type could get elected.
> (I personally don't have enough faith in the Folk At Large
> not to hand someone like that power) "Starting tomorrow,
> all Hawiian Citizen Units will begin moving to the mainland.
> Some of the smaller islands have been cleared, and HIV+
> units are being relocated as this address is being broadcast..."

AUWE!  What a way to get the heart pumping in the morning - remember that
this has happenned twice here: once sending victims of Hanson's Disease to
Moloka'i, and again to send our Japanese-Americans to the mainland...

-NetSurfer

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> > all Hawiian Citizen Units will begin moving to the mainland.
> > Some of the smaller islands have been cleared, and HIV+
> > units are being relocated as this address is being broadcast..."
> 
> AUWE!  What a way to get the heart pumping in the morning - remember that
> this has happenned twice here: once sending victims of Hanson's Disease to
> Moloka'i, and again to send our Japanese-Americans to the mainland...

Actually, this points to a potential problem for anarchic societies.
Suppose that HIV would spread by airborne droplets, like the flu.
Then measures of isolation, like those stated here, would seem very
adequate. But could such measures be taken without strong government?

Mats

Mats Bergstrom says:
> Actually, this points to a potential problem for anarchic societies.
> Suppose that HIV would spread by airborne droplets, like the flu.
> Then measures of isolation, like those stated here, would seem very
> adequate. But could such measures be taken without strong government?

We don't have to imagine fatal illnesses spread by casual
contact. We've had plenty of experience with such diseases even into
this century -- polio, tuberculosis, and the like -- and government
did a lousy job with them. I'm not sure market based mechanisms would
necessarily do extremely well, but I do know that the alternatives
aren't so amazing as to make me pine for them.

.pm

> Actually, this points to a potential problem for anarchic societies.
> Suppose that HIV would spread by airborne droplets, like the flu.
> Then measures of isolation, like those stated here, would seem very
> adequate. But could such measures be taken without strong government?

See the xtians "Old Testament" re Hansons's (Leprocy) - their government
was little better than anarchy yet dealt with this - perhaps not as well
as Castro has dealt with AIDS (by segragating them to date.)


-NetSurfer

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