Isolating people with HIV? Seal them off? Circled together? Put on an island?

It is an idea that is technically and logically unattainable. In addition, it is simply not ethical or medically necessary for human beings.

First of all, many people living with HIV are in a state of being that they do not know, or they know that others do not know, that they cannot be targeted or identified. They look like normal people on the outside, and in many cases they are only aware of their status.

They go to work, work, and make friends just like normal people. Even the friends, relatives and coworkers that are around us.

Where is the necessity of isolating those infected with HIV? Is it to prevent them from spreading the virus? If, within the framework of morality and health, every infected person is clean and respectful of others, then this concern is really unnecessary.

Sex, mother-to-child and blood transmission are the three ways, and the most worrying way is sexually transmitted, so society as a whole should pay attention to one thing, that is, to pay attention to safe and healthy sexual behavior. In addition to AIDS, there are also syphilis and hepatitis B that may be sexually transmitted. Should we find syphilis patients and hepatitis B patients and close them up? We know that tuberculosis can be transmitted through droplets in the air, and it is even more dangerous than these three diseases. Currently, the medical practice is to isolate tuberculosis patients during treatment until they are cured. Tuberculosis seems to be more dangerous than the above mentioned diseases, is it not more deserving of isolation?

Wow, the global village is so crowded that finding all the infected is like a "hunt" among humans.

The "hunt" is so detached from reality, so much like a movie clip, that it is beyond what is possible in real life. It breaks the boundaries of human emotion and morality.

When human society looks at these unfortunate infected people with tolerance and understanding, they are a relatively vulnerable part of our population. They should be viewed with normalcy and respect, and they should live in harmony with society, taking care of their own health and that of others, and refraining from inappropriate behavior.

In the fight against cancer, AIDS and other diseases that harm human health, all human beings should stand together and declare war on viruses.

Disease is the target of our "hunt", rather than human beings being suspicious of each other, attacking each other, and setting up barriers between people, which is not allowed by human society and civilization, and I believe that one day in the future, AIDS can be defeated!

(Some images in the text are from the works of oil painter Li Chenchen)

Society is not a computer! When a computer is poisoned, antivirus software to isolate the virus can prevent the spread of the virus, but simply isolating AIDS patients can lead to many unexpected social problems. Why not isolate AIDS patients can be considered from the following aspects:

1. Non-readily transmissible

The three ways in which AIDS is transmitted are blood, mother-to-child, and sex. AIDS infection must meet several conditions, a certain amount of virus, wounds, AIDS and wounds for a long time contact (can not leave the virus mother environment). Therefore, normal human interaction is not contagious. Talking, eating, shaking hands, normal kissing (saliva in the virus is negligible) and so on are possible. Once the virus leaves the environment and comes into contact with the air, it immediately loses its activity, so as long as you don't have a person with AIDS who has blood running through their veins and your wound is close to your wound, it's all safe.

2. Larger group size

In China, for example, there are few official statistics available, but one statistic that can be referenced is that in 2014 China found 100,000 new HIV carriers that year! So it's easy to imagine how many people are currently known and unknown in China. Where are so many people isolated? How are they managed?

3. Social issues

If there is only mechanical segregation, will such a large number of people be rebellious? What if there are mass incidents? These are all very realistic problems that will only lead to social unrest.

4. Chain reaction

AIDS needs to be quarantined, do other infectious diseases need to be quarantined? Patients with hepatitis, syphilis, etc. also go into a panic. It gets out of hand.

5. Perspective of social progress

The progress of a society is not only the progress of science and technology, but more importantly the progress of reason, an open source, inclusive and harmonious society is the society of the future.

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A little bit about this from a doctor's point of view!

Some infectious diseases such as AIDS and Hepatitis B take the same precautions and are not quarantined, and the main reason for this has to do with the way these infectious diseases are transmitted and how they are transmitted!

AIDS is transmitted in three ways! blood transmission, sexual transmission and mother-to-child transmission.

Blood transmission is no longer the main way of transmission, although it is the main mode of transmission. The main reason for this is that the use of blood is now strictly regulated, so that not many cases are transmitted through blood! I still remember that more than ten years ago, there was a collective blood incident of dozens of AIDS patients in a place in Northeast China because of the lax management of blood donors and the problem of buying and selling blood!

Sexual transmission is now the main way of spreading AIDS. Sexual transmission, although less likely than blood transmission, has become a major mode of transmission because many people do not care too much about it. 90% of people infected with HIV are infected because of unprotected sex. In particular, same-sex sexual behavior (especially men having sex with men) is the main mode of transmission of AIDS.

I once met a college student who was a forced gay male, who had AIDS himself, and already had many complications, and not long after coming here I heard that the person was gone!

Mother-to-child transmission is when a pregnant woman who is living with HIV transmits HIV to her fetus, and the child becomes infected with HIV after delivery. There are also cases where the child is not infected after delivery, but is transmitted to the child through breastfeeding or through breast milk.

There seems to be less of it in recent years, and in previous years there were babies born to AIDS mothers, which were usually routinely blocked and monitored over time!

These are the three ways in which AIDS can be transmitted. There have been no known instances in which saliva, sweat, or other bodily fluids have been able to lead to AIDS infection, so the mode of transmission does not include daily life transmission. For this reason, AIDS is not isolated!

AIDS is an incurable infectious disease, and there is no window period for transmission; as long as you are sick, you are a source of infection, so there is no way to set a quarantine period, and there is no such thing as being quarantined.

As the general public, we can only step up prevention, in the words of our teachers, clean up, adopt safe sex, stay away from drugs, stay away from behaviors that may infect us with AIDS, don't take the initiative to get infected, and as for being passive (such as blood transfusion, etc.), that's life!

Why not isolate AIDS patients?

This is a question on many people's minds, so let's dissect it today!

Let's talk about the ways of transmission of AIDS: as we all know, there are three ways of transmission of AIDS, one is sexual transmission, one is mother-to-child transmission, and the other is blood transmission, and all of these ways of transmission are insidious.

As for our common patients who require isolation for treatment, such as sputum smear-positive tuberculosis patients, the transmission of this type of disease is through airborne transmission, which is easy for the general public to come into contact with, and therefore isolation is required. AIDS, on the other hand, is transmitted through the air and is generally difficult for the general public to come into contact with, so it is not necessary.

It is time to eliminate discrimination against AIDS and to integrate AIDS patients into the general public in order to facilitate the prevention and treatment of AIDS.

Quarantine for AIDS is not technically feasible either; the base of AIDS patients is large and there are not that many quarantine places.

For most people, AIDS is still a very scary disease.

Besides being deadly, it's contagious;

This makes many people feel that staying away from, or even isolating, people with AIDS is a safe and sound practice.

But in reality.

AIDS is long gone from what people initially thought it was;

AIDS is now preventable, controllable and curable;

And people with AIDS can live and work normally after going through treatment;

Even life expectancy is no different than normal.

Let's talk about why we don't segregate people with AIDS;

First of all it's completely unworkable.

People with AIDS are no different from normal people.

There is no way for anyone to tell if a person is infected with HIV from the outside, except by going to the hospital and getting tested.

Chances are they are our neighbors, friends or even loved ones.

According to relevant statistics, there are now more than 700,000 HIV-infected people surviving in China;

There are more than 30 million people living with HIV worldwide;

Segregating so many people who can live and work normally is unrealistic from any perspective.

Moreover, even if AIDS patients are isolated, the transmission of AIDS cannot be controlled.

People with AIDS are not quarantined, and I believe there are two reasons for this.

1. The virus is not very easy to spread, unlike the new coronavirus, HIV transmission still requires some conditions (blood, sex, mother to child, etc.).

2. Long-term treatment is needed. People with AIDS have a very long life expectancy, and those who are well controlled now can live for 10 years or so. If this is quarantined, it's not the same as going to jail, and the other thing is where will the cost come from?

So, isolation is not practical, and people with AIDS who are well controlled don't have visible symptoms, and people with AIDS die because of loss of immunity leading to other diseases.

I think there are two points: firstly, HIV infection is not very easy, it is not contagious in normal life contact, and nowadays, blood stations are strict in testing, and risky sex is not necessarily contagious at once, compared to hepatitis B and other infectious diseases, the rate of infection is low, and secondly, nowadays, the drug control can be as good as the life expectancy of a normal person, and there is no big difference in the quality of life.

The main thing that makes HIV scary is public opinion it's now a chronic disease like diabetes.

Disease, contagious a lot, and AIDS is only through three modes of transmission blood mother and child and sex, his mode of transmission is enough to show that the spread of this disease is limited, as well as the HIV virus leaves the body will soon die, and AIDS people to eat together, hugging, will not cause the spread of the disease. AIDS is not scary, what is scary is the human heart, a kind of discriminatory vision.

If you want to isolate AIDS patients, the first ones to isolate should be those with hepatitis B, which is far more transmissible than AIDS, as well as skin diseases, syphilis and other infectious diseases.

So no matter what kind of disease you have to have a good mind, check yourself and protect yourself just enough, no need to do all kinds of forms and discrimination of oppression. Life is all the same precious, just different varieties of disease, all have the right to live well.

Why aren't people with AIDS quarantined?

First, AIDS is a chronic infectious disease with a potentially long incubation period after being infected, which, coupled with standardized antiretroviral therapy, can greatly extend the life span of patients. Compared with other acute infectious diseases, isolation will not be very effective;

Secondly, AIDS patients also have their own rights. As AIDS patients have different routes of infection, various circumstances need to be taken into account, and we cannot beat them to death with a single stick.

Thirdly, society has developed to such an extent that it is in a position of tolerance towards infectious diseases such as AIDS, and there is no need to quarantine AIDS patients through the continuous development of science and technology and the protection and prevention of the spread of AIDS through medical means.

In summary, people with AIDS cannot be quarantined.

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Anyone who asks that question is, one, either intellectually challenged. Two, either has a problem with IQ mindset. Three, either 7 hi one. If you are discriminating against this crowd, please circle you up first, or you can isolate yourself