When it comes to AIDS, human rights can be wrong AS ONE who has never ac- cepted the Blatherwickian view of AIDS I think you should know that there may be more to this disease than Blatherwick has dreamed of. J am talking here of Dr. John Blatherwick, Vancouver’s public health officer, who has often said that AIDS can be transmitted only by sexual or blood contact, or needles. So not to worry. Just practise ‘‘safe sex’’ and don't bea needle-using druggy. He has been so liberal in his approach to this killer complaint that he got some sort of award from the Vancouver homos. Not thai | am getting at him especial- ly. His views are those of the medical establishment. But the medical establishment has been wrong before. I thought of the good doctor last March, when we learned that a young girl got AIDS from her homosexual dentist. It now appears that there was no blood contact between dentist and patient. The dentist may sim- ply have breathed the disease into the girl’s bleeding mouth, much though the Blaiherwick School may laugh at such an idea. In any event, the U.S. Centre for Disease Control says ‘‘there is no evidence that any of the den- tist’s blood came in contact with the patient.’’ This news comes from Dr. Lor- raine Day, who until she resigned for fear of catching AIDS was Chief of O: chopedic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. Her experiences there persuaded her to study the conventional! wisdom on the disease, and she wrote a frightening article on her findings in New Dimensions mag- azine, entitled: What the govern- ment doesn’t tell you about AIDS. “‘For months,”’ she stated, ‘‘I immersed myself in the medical literature and found that the ma- jority of the information given to the public was blatantly false.”’ She lists myth after myth. It is a myth, she claims, that the AIDS virus is fragile. “It stays alive on a dry surface for seven days’’ and also survives freezing. So what about dried urine on toilet seats, she asks? And it cannot be killed by ordi- ETERNITY RINGS 14 carat 10 point FROM $159.00 Doug Collins ON THE OTHER HAND nary household detergents. Intact skin is not a complete barrier to the trassmission of AIDS, either, **Skin and mucous membranes are pathways ... It is just that AIDS is more effectively trans- mitted through broken or abraded skin.” Nor can you be totally sure of the safety of blood, even though the Red Cross and other health authorities say the opposite. Blood supplies are safe only so far as the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) antibody test is accurate. “It is true, however, that it is much safer now than it was before 1985 when the HIV test first became available.’’ The only safe blood is one’s own, and she advises people to have it stored in case of need. It is said that AIDS is not con- tagious in the workplace (hence the campaign not to discriminate against employees who have it). Food service workers with AIDS who cut themselves, we are assured, cannot pass the virus on. But she found no evidence that that is true. We are told, too, that it is safe for children with AIDS to attend school, while teachers and other children have no right to know who is infected. ‘*But what happens when the child has a nosebleed and the teacher or another student assists him and has contact with his blood?”’ AIDS has even been transmitted on the soccer field when two players bumped heads. The much ballyhooed ‘‘safe sex’’ propaganda she regards as a joke. Condoms tear, come off, and can develop small invisible holes if exposed to certain pollu- tants or lubricants. There is more, but [ don’t want to spoil your day. I will simply repeat that worrying about “human rights’’ with regard to AIDS is madness. 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