Tom Prices lawmaker wife wants people with HIV quarantined and their partners surveilled
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/tom-prices-lawmaker-wife-wants-people-with-hiv-quarantined-and-their-partners-surveilled/?comments=disqus
Georgia Republican state Representative Betty Price — wife of disgraced former Health and Human Services Sec. Tom Price — has called for HIV-positive people to be quarantined and for their sexual partners to be logged and tracked by the government, according to David Badash at The New Civil Rights Movement.
Price — a physician — made the comments at a Georgia House commission meeting about improving state residents’ access to healthcare. She directed her question to Dr. Pascale Wortley, the director of the HIV Epidemiology Section for Georgia Department of Health.
“(B)efore you proceed if you wouldn’t mind commenting on the surveillance of partners, tracking of contacts, that sort of thing. What are we legally able to do?” asked Price.
“And I don’t want to say the quarantine word,” she went on, “but I guess I just said it. Is there an ability, since I would guess that public dollars are expended heavily in prophylaxis and treatment of this condition, so we have a public interest in curtailing the spread. What would you advise or are there any methods legally that we could do that would curtail the spread?”
In other words, in order for the state save money on HIV prevention and treatment, Georgia should lock up HIV-positive people and subject their sexual partners to government tracking.
WTF?! What is she proposing? A kind of "Final Solution" for people who are HIV positive and their "partners" who - in the eyes of the republicans could be anyone they associate with. This is just sick and very frightening. I don't think you need much of an imagination to see where they can and will go if they ever got away with something like this.
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