Pentagon can ban HIV-positive recruits from US military, conservative appeals court rules

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6. I do understand the issues of those with chronic medical issues

that would necessitate regular treatment (one of my BILs had to have dialysis 3 days a week for several years too until he was fortunate to get a donated kidney).

But it's almost like rejecting anyone who might have contracted any other virus that never manifests into something else (like chickenpox can suddenly reappear as shingles).

In this case, it's strictly a Raygun-era tarring and feathering as being associated with what they derisively called "the gay disease", by adding a homophobic stigma to anyone who contracted the virus, whether nothing further happens after or the infected person actually ends up getting full blown AIDS, regardless of how they ended up getting exposed.