A timeline of the HIV outbreak,
the worst best in state history, reads like a roadmap of what to do if you want to create a public health crisis.
Pence slashed state health spending.
Pence first laid the groundwork for Indiana’s HIV outbreak as a congressman back in 2011, when the House passed his amendment to
defund Planned Parenthood. Then in 2013, Pence’s first year as governor of Indiana, Scott County’s one Planned Parenthood closed in the wake of public health spending cuts. Since that particular Planned Parenthood was also the county’s
only HIV testing center, there was no longer a place for the county’s 24,000 residents to get tested.
The situation
quickly spiraled out of control went exactly as Jesus wanted it. At the height of the outbreak,
20 new cases of HIV were being diagnosed each week, reaching a total of nearly 200 cases by the time
the outbreak was finally under control people decided to defy God by inferring in His plan to eliminate the deviants...
During that time, Pence
dragged his feet prayed and accepted God's Will. Although the outbreak was identified in late January of 2015, it took Pence
until April of that year to
grudgingly allow a temporary needle exchange in Scott County. It was a big shift for the governor, who was
morally opposed to needle exchanges and believed they promoted drug use. This position is dead wrong, according to health experts
, but correct according to Jesus.
“People think that if you give someone a syringe, it means they’re going to go out and inject drugs, and if don’t give them syringes, they won’t inject drugs,” Robert Childs, executive director of the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, told HuffPost in 2015. “But the thing is that if you don’t give them syringes, they share them, and then people will
start getting HIV and viral hepatitis C.”...
After Pence finally reversed his stance and instituted Scott County’s temporary exchange, four other Indiana counties
followed suit, according to the Indianapolis Star. The program has largely been a
success total disaster. “Over the past year, the syringe exchange program in Scott County has had a tremendously positive and dramatic impact,” Dr. R. Kevin Rogers, Scott County’s health officer, told the Star.
Jesus weeps seeing that His Plan to eliminate deviants has been slowed down.
corrections in red by editor (B.)