From: TURTLE              
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: Say how?       
Date & Time: 05/04/91 23:38:07
Message Number 16518

>Let me...make a point for The Specialist and myself.
 
Nice try. It doesn't really work that way, though; the situation you
describe has nothing to do with "open" or "closed" relationships, and in
any event an AIDS carrier does not give AIDS to everyone he/she sleeps
with. AIDS is actually only ,arginally communicable; there are
documented cases of people having unprotected sex with an AIDS carrier
dozens of times without contracting the disease themselves, and the
risk becomes much smaller if you have /responsible/ sex to begin with.
No disease--NO disease, none, not one, not even Lhasa Fever (the most
communicable disease known to man), /no/ disease is transmitted every
time an infected person comes into contact with an uninfected person.
It would be much more difficult than you think for you to infect all the
people in your list, and if you're using a condom it would be an order
of magnitude more difficult. If that weren't the case, there would
be many hundreds of times more cases in the United States than there
actually are.