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In the case of COVID+HIV, though, even the "totalitarian solution" to the problem wouldn't need to involve locking anyone up for non-compliance. We're lucky eno
by derefr 3y ago
In the case of COVID+HIV, though, even the "totalitarian solution" to the problem wouldn't need to involve locking anyone up for non-compliance. We're lucky enough to live in an age where we've invented things like injectable slow-release intramuscular gel-matrix drug-delivery systems.
So someone noncompliant would be potentially forcefully subdued (probably by police), so that a doctor could then administer them a one-time shot of antiretroviral drugs (without their consent), that would slowly leach into their body over one or several months, treating them all the while. As soon as that single shot is in their body and treating them, they'd be released.
Keep in mind that the goal here wouldn't be to make them HIV-free. Just to get their immune system working long enough to get them COVID-free. They can go back to having HIV if they want; HIV isn't an epidemic risk. So they don't need to be held captive for regular maintenance injections.