8 - Sunday, November 24, 1985 - North Shore News Doug Collins © get this Straight @ LAST WEEK the cover of Maclean’s Magazine carried the picture of a doleful-looking homosexual — Allan Pletcher of Vancouver -- who is suffering from AIDS. And the caption had him saying ‘‘Please don’t ostracize us’’. If, by “‘ostracize’’, Plet- _cher meant ‘‘isolate’’, I would ask: why not? And I would ask further why Maclean's is so keen to plead that isolating AIDS victims would be unciviliz- What is so uncivilized about protecting the public from an incurable disease? Well, the burden of the ‘Maclean's report is that we _are a panicky lot and that “human rights’’ are at stake. ‘‘The Ethics of Aids” is the title of its - coverage. Dr. Collins doesn’ t have a medical degree, but he can tell you this: the book is not yet closed on how AIDS is transmitted. As we all know, homosexuals are the main agents, hence my term for AIDS -- God’s Botch -- - and in a previous column I weat into clinical details as -to why that is so. ; ‘*..2 doubt that ‘the editor of Maclean’s would go ‘to work blithely: if he knew the guy in the next office had-AIDS...”7 ‘ edical science is still arguing about, whether this "transmitted by tears. .That . being the. case, ‘would you | want. to tisk.your child's ‘health if you knew for sure The West Vancouver Howe Sound NDP Nomination Meeting Wednesday, Nov. 27, 7:00 pm ; Horseshoe Bay Hall - 6372 Bruce Street, Horseshoe Bay ; Everyone Welcome! Bring Your Questions , Montreai that another kid in the schoo! class had AIDS? Would you? Pletcher, who has become something of a celebrity, if not a saint, states that AIDS ‘‘is the hardest disease in the world to catch. You have to work at it’® Bur why should we take his word for that when the medical profession is by no means so sure? A person who has an ingrown toenail is not necessarily an expert on ingrown toenails. Maclean's tells us not to develop the plague spirit of- olden times. ‘‘To the homosexual community and almost all health and legal professionals,”’ it adds, ‘“‘the prospect of quarantine is unacceptable -- what Shaw called ‘a 19th -century solution to a 20th -century problem’.”* I can say several things to that. First, 1 doubt that the editor of Maclean's would go to work blithely if he knew that the guy in the next office had AIDS; se- cond, there is no proof that ‘almost all’ medical and .- legal professionals say that quarantine is unacceptable, and even if there were, so what; third, I do not care - what the axe-grinding homosexual community regards as unacceptable, and fourth, I-care even less about the witticisms of Ber- nard Shaw, who was a fine °. playwright but also a nin- “* compoop who thought Joe ' Stalin was another Jesus. As far as I am concerned, the magazine destroys its own case by quoting two doctors. One stated that the first homosexual AIDS victim he ever treated said he would continue to have sex. The other said that a male pro- stitute patient planned to go on practising his trade. It.was Barbara Amiel the Maclean’s columnist who initially raised the issue of isolation for AIDS suf- ferers, and that may be why the magazine is doing a bit { of back-pedalling. She wrote: “In our nutty liberal worid, ‘human rights’ take precedence over human. sense, ”” ‘When we speak of the horror of ostracized children. or lonely adults, we should remember one thing. It is tragic to ostracize a seven-year-old child, but there is one thing more tragic. And that is to create a situation in which two and then three and then. a class of seven-year-olds becomes ostracized and eventually dead.” Maclean’s says there may be a case for isolating children, but not adults. 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