HIV Scare at St. Louis Area HS

[BigRedBeta]

I don't get it...is there just one really slutty person going around? It's unbelievably vague from the article and almost appears as though the people involved don't understand how HIV is transmitted.

Anyways, the bigger issue for most of these kids is the rest of their adult life...if you've ever known people from St. Louis, the single biggest determining factor of whether they can be friends with another St. Louis resident is what high school they attended...Seriously, they ask each other this question within seconds of finding out they're from St. Louis, even non-St. Louis people can gain cred by saying "I don't know what it means, but I know that I'm supposed to ask you what HS you went to in St. Louis" and they'll tell you! This school is going to have a stigma attached to it for a long time...

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by BigRedBeta

I you've ever known people from St. Louis, the single biggest determining factor of whether they can be friends with another St. Louis resident is what high school they attended...Seriously, they ask each other this question within seconds of finding out they're from St. Louis, even non-St. Louis people can gain cred by saying "I don't know what it means, but I know that I'm supposed to ask you what HS you went to in St. Louis" and they'll tell you! This school is going to have a stigma attached to it for a long time...

It's so weird! My ex was from STL, and he was so into where people went to HS...ten years later! It's not even just public schools--apparently you can tell a lot about someone by which all-girl's Catholic school they went to. STL, at least to me, was extremely segregated by class AND race. Supposedly, you could tell what "kind" people were based on what mall they shopped at. It was ridiculous.

[PeppyGPhiB]

People do it up here in Washington, too. Once they find out you grew up here, and they grew up here, too, they'll ask you which hs you went to. I know where a number of my coworkers went to hs and college.

ETA: it seems like testing the whole school is a huge waste of resources and emotions. Why doesn't the health department just alert the people whom the infected person indicates might have been exposed? Isn't that required by law? If there are 50 people who may have been exposed, via a known method of infection, test those 50 people, or anyone that fits into the category the infected person indicates is the cause. Getting an HIV test is not like getting a flu shot, Hep B shots or routine blood draw, and as the article mentions, it sounds like all the kids are being labeled by ignorant, uneducated folk.

[Kevlar281]

Originally Posted by BigRedBeta

I don't get it...is there just one really slutty person going around? It's unbelievably vague from the article and almost appears as though the people involved don't understand how HIV is transmitted.

If I had to guess, sex party aka orgy.