President Obama Ends 22 Year Old Travel Ban On HIV-Positive Travelers To U.S.

[halcyon0830]

This will be Obama's main "achivement".

[TheLiddlekiddle]

Oh Hurray! We can now also pay for the AIDS victims treatment and give them amnesty too.

[integral]

hey, nice to see the liddlekiddle doesn't mind displaying both his ignorance and his bigotry.

[eyecansee9]

how are you people watching this? i've been trying for 30 minutes off and on and everytime it says: an error occured, please try again later. wtf?

[Z200a]

That was happening to me for about an hour -- I just came back to check it and now it's working.

[tbackes]

yes we cant....yes we cant....

[integral]

about time

[EncompassedRunner]

@integral, agree, I'm surprised to hear this ban was still around

[79jethro]

Wait for an Alex Jones conspiracy blaming it on the Illuminati!

[NwZ2]

rofl @ conspiracy theorists.

can never prove em wrong!

[texas224]

''Holy shit.. what the fuck is our President doing?.'' Ok calm down people, I'm sure this is what is going through everybody's mind right now, will just have to wait for him to make his case to the American people.

[NwZ2]

cause, you know, lets discriminate against people with other diseases trying to, say, visit their loved ones or have access to our medical facilities. That'll definitely make our image to the world improve!

[Apsu88]

Yeah we should allow people with leprosy on too. /sarcasm

[NwZ2]

aslong as the proper medical precautions/safety devices are in place, I don't see why such controllable things be banned. If we're talking like fucking Ebola n shit, that's different, but HIV isn't exactly something we're not already well aware of =\

[RyandocDO]

@NwZ2 This is a measure that protects the united states from other people who have been infected. By allowing people that have contagious diseases into the united states the incidence of AIDS infections of Americans WILL go up. Has nothing to do with discrimination it has to deal with trying to keep the infection rate at a minimum. Any non citizen has no right to enter this country.

[NwZ2]

Fair enough.

[Z200a]

Do you actually believe there is a travel ban on people with leprosy or other diseases? This law is a throwback to a much earlier period when much less was known about AIDS and how it was transmitted. Don't worry: Human rights are not going to hurt you.

[RyandocDO]

@Z200a What an idiotic thing to say.

[grit123]

this will end well