There are a couple of interesting ironies with Huck's position: It was a conservative republican congress that passes the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) in 2003, the privacy sections of which would probably make the steps advocated by the Huckster illegal; It was an ultraconservative republican governor of California, Ronald Reagan, who closed the state mental institutions releasing thousands of patients with various forms of schizophrenia upon the public. There was not then (1992) nor is there now a "cure" for this mental disease that , while not contagious, can be a threat to the general public (hear about any church shootings lately?).
As far as examples of contagious and potentially deadly diseases that are not systematically detected, tracked, and contained, it is only within the last two years that a preventative (a vaccine) for HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) has been approved for public use. Before that, this infection was the leading cause of cervical cancer, the second most common cancer in women and often fatal. There were absolutely no public laws requiring sexually active people, especially males, who are the most common transmitters of this virus to female sufferers, to be tested, or to "take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague".
I am hesitant to post the previous sentence since Juggs assures us that (referring to AIDS):
It also would be the first time in history where people with a disease with no known cure was not quarantined.
and I know that Juggs is very careful to never make any assertion without first thoroughly researching it.
On the other hand, this is a 15 year old response to a questionnaire and I believe that there should be some sort of statute of limitations concerning stupid statements and acts for people running for public office. The real question is "what is Huck's current position on this issue?".
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