Do you really think there would be no perverse incentives, regulatory overreach, etc, in a massive government programme of compulsory quarantine and HIV tests?
Let me dial that up to 11 X-)
So, the suggested remedy is to forcibly separate the society into the clean and the unclean, and to brand the unclean with an indelible mark. What could possibly go wrong?
And let’s talk practicalities. By the time AIDS was recognized as a serious threat and there were reliable tests for HIV status, how many HIV-positive people were there in the US already? Quarantines work well when you need to quarantine a few or a few dozens of people, not well-dispersed thousands and tens of thousands. How would compulsory testing work given that people know that failing the test leads to being branded unclean? Troops isolating city block by city block and dragging all inhabitants to a field testing station? How about costs of that?
Let me dial that up to 11 X-)
So, the suggested remedy is to forcibly separate the society into the clean and the unclean, and to brand the unclean with an indelible mark. What could possibly go wrong?
And let’s talk practicalities. By the time AIDS was recognized as a serious threat and there were reliable tests for HIV status, how many HIV-positive people were there in the US already? Quarantines work well when you need to quarantine a few or a few dozens of people, not well-dispersed thousands and tens of thousands. How would compulsory testing work given that people know that failing the test leads to being branded unclean? Troops isolating city block by city block and dragging all inhabitants to a field testing station? How about costs of that?