To be fair, "getting HIV" wasn't really a thing in the dark days. You found out when you developed AIDS, because some weird opportunistic thing popped up. Pre-A

To be fair, "getting HIV" wasn't really a thing in the dark days. You found out when you developed AIDS, because some weird opportunistic thing popped up. Pre-AIDS diagnosis came along after an awful lot of people died slowly of things that folks ordinarily don't get or don't die from.