OBAMA SAYS THAT HIV AND AIDS IMMIGRANTS WILL NO LONGER BE BANNED FROM THE U.S.?

yes or no : news related : OBAMA SAYS THAT HIV AND AIDS IMMIGRANTS WILL NO LONGER BE BANNED FROM THE U.S.?

[+] serious ballot by RunsWithScissors
ACTIVE Sat Oct 31, 09 - Thu Jul 26, 12
Obama announced Friday the lifting of a travel ban on visitors with HIV and AIDS, ending a 22 year policy that he said was "rooted in fear rather than fact."

Good idea or bad idea?

Good idea
Bad idea
mixed
Okay, and send some of the Gitmo detainees to --

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Voted : Good idea

by larrynelmira on Sat Oct 31, 09 4:38am [+]

Voted : mixed
these days, HIV is just one of the disease that can kill you. I am frankly surprised that they were banned from US until now. Recent breakthrough makes it almost a curable disease, it may be in about 10 years.

but much like other medical issue, who would be paying for their treatment?

by LCD on Sat Oct 31, 09 5:13am [+]

I don't know if they visit US for treatment, especially if they are from countries with universal health care.

They might want to come here to visit family or just be a tourist.

by larrynelmira on Sat Oct 31, 09 6:20am [+]

or they want to settle here, to chase the american dream.

by LCD on Sat Oct 31, 09 6:25am [+]

I didn't even know there was a travel ban

by larrynelmira on Sat Oct 31, 09 8:04am [+]

I didn't even know there was an american dream.

by britvic55 on Sat Oct 31, 09 9:22am [+]

The more I think about this the more sad I think it is, imagine having a Grandmother in UK with HIV, she's already feeling bad and she can't even come visit you?

Sounds more like something North Korea would do.

by larrynelmira on Sat Oct 31, 09 11:03am [+]

Voted : Good idea
^Yeah but who'd want to visit North Korea?

by Mr_Spleen on Sat Oct 31, 09 11:06am [+]

^ probably no one but I'm just saying.

by larrynelmira on Sat Oct 31, 09 11:13am [+]

Voted : Okay, and send some of the Gitmo detainees to --
Disneyland, Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe, too. Afterall, they deserve a better life, too. (Before they plot to kill us.)

by SiouXLea on Sun Nov 01, 09 10:26am [+]

And, Larry: Do you think the "Grandmother in UK with HIV" gets treatment in UK?

by SiouXLea on Sun Nov 01, 09 10:29am [+]

If she is a citizen of the UK I would imagine she does, treatment usually only involves taking medication which I'm sure she would bring with her.

Lifting a travel ban is not like he is saying all people with HIV come to America, also not like the people with HIV have some evil plot to infect Americans.

I would imagine most would be tourist and would be very happy to return to their country.

If it were an Airborne disease I would understand a travel ban, but its not.

by larrynelmira on Sun Nov 01, 09 11:43am [+]

I apologize, I didn't notice the ballot said IMMIGRANTS, but I still don't have a problem with it, were tourist with HIV banned as well RWS?

by larrynelmira on Sun Nov 01, 09 12:52pm [+]

To continue with the article in the newspaper...

"Most health experts have long panned the policy, which bans travelers and immigrants with the virus from entering the United States. It was conceived during the Reagan administration as a bulwark against a contagious disease."

Obama said in a White House news conference "We lead the world when it comes to helping stem the AIDS pandemic, yet we are one of only a dozen countries that still bar people with HIV from entering our own country. If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it."

by RunsWithScissors on Wed Nov 04, 09 4:00am [+]

I still think this is one of Obama's plans to weaken our country by exposing more people to this disease.

Would you eat off the same plate or drink out of the same glass that someone with AIDS did? If you go into a restaurant, that could happen. Ever get a knife or a glass in a restaurant that isn't quite clean enough?

by RunsWithScissors on Mon Nov 16, 09 12:49pm [+]