[lbo-talk] Fidel

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Dec 28 14:15:02 PST 2006


Doug Henwood wrote:


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> Wimpy half-measures! They should be shot, of course.
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> Charles, sometimes your authoritarianism is scary.
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> Doug

Wait. I don't get it. When AIDS first emerged and nothing was known about the mode of transmission...when all was known was that it mean instant death...what would have been wrong with quarantine?

Is there no such thing as a public health measure any more?

I mean if Cholera broke out on the next block, would you want those folks running around?

Joanna



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