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I qualified my statement by stating “after the blood supply was screened”, which rules out the period where it was not understood. I’m not here to argue semant

I qualified my statement by stating “after the blood supply was screened”, which rules out the period where it was not understood. I’m not here to argue semantics, you win. HIV/AIDS is a pandemic and epidemic. My point is that COVID-19 can infect anyone that has lungs, and breathes in the virus contained in the air. HIV/AIDS is contracted via IV drug use, unprotected sex, or mother-to-child transmission. Notice how one of these is incredibly easy to catch, and the other you have to try and catch? That is my point.

bogomipz 7y ago
It has nothing to with semantics. If you reread the OP's original comment they state: >"The problem is that the west has nobody in power with living memory of a pandemic." And that is not true. And this HIV/AIDS is particularly relevant because Dr Deborah Birx was chosen as response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force because of her work on a previous pandemic, that of HIV/AIDS.