What would you do?

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Webster said:
Goodness.
I thought this was a discussion.
There's definitely no reason to get pissed off.

I lived through the first days of the epidemic when Ronald Reagan's government was making plans to put Aids sufferers in internment camps.

I saw emaciated young men on the streets every day. I also saw compassionate people who nursed them and fed them and cared for them when some people were afraid to be in the same room with them.

Through the many years of this terrible epidemic, I have seen incredible advances in treatment and care so that being HIV+ is no longer a death sentence. Many people who went out on disability have gone back to work and they are leading completely normal lives.

During those years, gay men learned how to have great sex without becoming infected.

I choose to be informed about the actual risks of transmission, I use common sense, and I live my life without paranoia.

There is a far greater chance of me becoming injured or dying in a car accident than from contracting HIV.

I am happy to give to you the benefit of the doubt by assuming that you misunderstood my comments.

I wish you well.

I'm sooo glad you remembered about the Reagan internment camp thing, too---I mention it to people, and they look at me like I was crazy, inlcuding people my age and older, gay, who should have remembered this!! Now I don;t feel like I have lost my mind or something.:biggrin1:
 

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I have consulted my dictionary and found the following definitions:

panic attack: a mental state characterized by a sudden unreasonable terror, often accompanied by mass flight.

unreason: the absence of reason or sanity: irrationality, madness.



These are my last words on this subject.
 

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Webster said:
I have consulted my dictionary and found the following definitions:

panic attack: a mental state characterized by a sudden unreasonable terror, often accompanied by mass flight.

unreason: the absence of reason or sanity: irrationality, madness.



These are my last words on this subject.

I think we already established what a panic attack is. I am also not going to take a head-in-the-sand approach on the subject just because it doesn't fit my dogma.

The only thing to do here is to agree to disagree. You have your bod, I have mine. I'm going to borrow Bronx's words as my last on this subject:
I don't put on a kevlar vest and then say, "It's okay to shoot at me. I'm wearing protection."

Now I'm done.
 

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Okay everbody...step away from the key board and breath deep. :doh: Feel better now?
Gosh I knew this would happen. I just wasn't sure when. Everyone on here is entitled to their own thoughts and reactions. If we all agreed on every thing then there would be no conflict. I'm sorry, but without a little conflict. How are any of us going to stop and think.."Hummmm I never thought about it like that, maybe they are right :confused:"

I do like the fact that no one has turned this into a ugly fight.

Makes me proud to here ever one's thoughts about an issue that is not talked about anymore. If only we all talked about this as much as they do breast cancer these day, then maybe the infection rate would not be on the increase.

Lets all play nice.....:biggrin1: