--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario: > The big difference is in how you say it in the post. > If you say "be careful of needles", that is indeed a > good thing. But if you say that some one got AIDS > because > he sat on a needle ---- and the story is false --- > , that it acquires a different dimension. > > So, one can always warn, but dont use falsehoods to > do that. > Samir, I agree with you. However, you seem to have missed something. The archives on this subject on Goanet will show that I did not perpetuate the original hoax. Instead, I immediately told the people who had sent me the original hoax that it was a hoax, and have since only argued that it only makes sense to watch where you sit in a public place. The continuing insinuations by some that I perpetuated a hoax is a hoax in itself, as is the assertion that there is NO risk from needlestick injuries, as the URL I posted from the health authorities in Victoria, Australia would prove to any unbiased person. The fact is that there is a small risk of infection, but it takes months of testing accompanied by much mental anguish to determine whether anyone who suspects they have been infected is safe.
In the light of these facts ask yourself why there are still people who are opposing my common sense warning and making misleading or false statements about what I did.
