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HIV was much more deadly for certain groups (IV drug users and homosexual men) during the late 80's through early 90's than COVID is to the general public. 10%
by rhino369 6y ago
HIV was much more deadly for certain groups (IV drug users and homosexual men) during the late 80's through early 90's than COVID is to the general public.
10% of self-identifying gay men in America born in the baby boomer generation died from AIDS by 1995. Nobody locked them in their houses for 6 months.
HIV treatments were a miracle that saved a lot of lives.
- whimsicalism 6y agoCrazy. And IV users and gay men could get it just by going to an enclosed indoor space? Are you locked in your house?
- dragonwriter 6y ago> 10% of self-identifying gay men in America born in the baby boomer generation died from AIDS by 1995. Nobody locked them in their houses for 6 months. The government policy response for most of the first decade the AIDS epidemic was known about was “do nothing, it's just killing undesirables we'd like to eliminate, anyway”, so it's kind of a weird model to hold up for emulation. But (1) HIV isn't a respiratory virus, so taking the kind of precautions that apply to a respiratory virus wouldn't make any sense; (2) prevrnting the spread of the epidemic outside of the undesirable groups was used as a pretext for the Justice Department permitting employers to fire people for having AIDS, and was part of the overt pretext in a number of new adopted (and more proposed) laws across the US extending discrimination against and exclusion of homosexuals.