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TIL that in a 1986 poll during the AIDS crisis by the LA Times, 50 percent of adults surveyed supported a quarantine of AIDS patients, 48 percent would approve of identity cards for those who test positive for antibodies causes AIDS and 15 percent favored tattooing AIDS victims.

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