From: TURTLE              
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: It could happen
Date & Time: 03/27/91 13:43:06
Message Number 14276

>My intent was to imply that it *should have been* limited to gays.
>Did you read my post on people who don't care?
 
The nature of disease is such that a communicable disease will *never*
confine itself to one part of a population. Even if everyone on the
planet had the same attitude you do toward gays, AIDS would not be con-
fined to the gay community, simply because the pattern of disease spread
in a given population doesn't work that way. You will always get trans-
ferrance through non-sexual means, transferrance from bisexuals to
people who do not know their partner is bisexual (and there's no way
you will ever convince me that anyone can know with 100% certainty any-
thng about his or her partner's past if that person is willing to lie
about that past)...and in any event there is no evidence that AIDS
even /started out/ in the gay community to begin with; only that it
initially spread most quickly in the gay and Hispanic community.
Referring to AIDS as a gay disease, or even as a "primarily gay"
disease, is ludicrous, just as referring to syphillus as a "black
disease" is absurd even though outbreaks are most common in areas with
a large population concentration of blacks. It flies in the face of
everything we currrently know about disease epidemology.