I am not looking at it from the moral, ethical, jurisdicional perspective. I am just providing the pragmatical health care background to consider.
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Replying to @galev_ph
Yup. And I get that. But this means attempted murder of the sick has been downgraded.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
I get it. And that sounds bad. I am hesitant on giving more opinion without knowing the full law and the legal environment, and forgive me if I am not going to read it all ^^ But on a bit of a tangent, I think the problem is the moralized stigma on HIV specifically.
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Replying to @galev_ph @TheBrometheus
Let's say the patient has ebola and goes on a kissing spree. How would the law deal with that?
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Replying to @galev_ph
Ebola isn’t a widespread illness that infected the blood supply before being caught, an Ebola is now curable.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @galev_ph
If people die from reckless behaviors we tend to charge with manslaughter. A felony.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @galev_ph
This law specifically downgrades that penalty for HIV only to the level of a misdemeanor, which in America can mean shoplifting or getting in a fistfight.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
(For the ecord, ebola is not curable, however HIV treatment has advance a great deal, though it is expensive.) If the law discriminates HIV and other similar diseases (eg Hepatitis) in such way, I think that is bad regulation both from public health and justice perspective.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
Oh wow. I will certainly check this out! Thanks.
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