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HEY ALL, LIVING HERE IN THE SUNSHINE STATE ENJOYING THE POSITIVE JOURNEY IN RENEWAL OF HOPE, PEACE AND JOY. I AM NOT A PERSON WITH AIDS, HOWEVER HIV POSITIVE AND THE OLD DENVER PRINCIPLES ARE GOOD FOR THEY INCLUDE ALL THE SAME RIGHTS AS US CONSTITUTION EXCEPT FOR A CALL FOR A CURE.. HOW ABOUT ADDING ANOTHER PRINCIPLE FOR A CURE FOR AIDS AND A CALL TO ASK TONEY WITH NIH TO RETIRIER AND GET A LEADER WITH ZEAL AND HOPE FOR A CURE FOR AIDS, NOW. PEACE AND MUCH LOVE, FREDERICK GNP+USA
I really despair when I hear stories like this. How can the threat that that this man was trying to spread HIV really be taken seriously? What science are these people using???
Clearly this man has issues but we know that HIV can not survive outside of the body, once it dries, it dies. So the charges of knowingly mailing this “with the intent to kill or injure another†is ridiculous. But it has created conversations and an opportunity for education. So use that in our day to day battle to fight the stigma that still surrounds this virus and has for the 17 years I've been positive.
Though I find the act ridiculus and and with malice and contempt I also find it very uneducated in theroy. The virus we know as HIV once outside the body lives for how long? Maybe, Maybe up to an hour as I have been told. Hep although can live for up to 14 days in dry blood. So what do we do here and what does this tell us? YES! There is still entirely too much complacentcy and lack of knowledge in HIV. The heads of states are as they were 25 plus years ago. I know I have been + for 25 of them.
Donald Baxter
This may be a deranged act of a desperate person, but it has nothing to do with HIV; it's incredulous that this man would be charged with any law mentioning HIV regardless of his intent since the potential for infection does not exist. Proof that stupidity exists at the highest of levels.
March 3, 2009 • Iowa City, Iowa