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Eugyppius on Substack recently pondered what would have happened if the current public health authorities were in charge back then: > Until now, the Covid bure

Eugyppius on Substack recently pondered what would have happened if the current public health authorities were in charge back then: > Until now, the Covid bureaucrats have responded with rolling seasonal embargoes on all human social activity that is not mediated by electronics. People who violate these restrictions are behaving irresponsibly and endangering all of society. Consider how much this stance differs from their approach to other viruses. Were gay men, at any point, ever exhorted to abstain from anal sex in the interests of defeating HIV? Was the gay community ever blamed for the AIDS epidemic and scolded by public health bureaucrats for worsening statistics? Were gay bars and bath houses ever targeted for closure or curfews or—imagine!—contact tracing, to flatten the curve? No, they weren’t; and if any of that had happened, we’d be reading to this day what a grave injustice all of it was. HIV is undeniably much harder on those it infects than Sars2, and I submit that, in the hierarchy of human needs, quotidian social interaction ranks well above anal sex. --https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/covid-is-a-social-construct https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/covid-is-a-social-construct

kongin 5y ago
I remember when people wanted an aids tattoo to keep those who have it segregated from the rest of us. I hear those peoples kids say that vaccine passports are completely different and absolutely essential. The apple didn't fall far from the tree. In 2 to 6 years when Gay McBasher comes to power you bet your bottom dollar that anal sex, IV drug use and being in Britain during mad cow disease will be added to those passports, just to give us informed consent of the dangers we face when meeting people in public.
- JetAlone 5y ago
  That's a sad part of the current human condition, we all want to rule each other to minimize the possibility of facing whatever it is we fear or loathe - and most of us fear a loss of control, or even a failure to gain as much control as we feel we could have had. Everybody wants to rule the world.

kongin 5y ago

I remember when people wanted an aids tattoo to keep those who have it segregated from the rest of us. I hear those peoples kids say that vaccine passports are completely different and absolutely essential. The apple didn't fall far from the tree. In 2 to 6 years when Gay McBasher comes to power you bet your bottom dollar that anal sex, IV drug use and being in Britain during mad cow disease will be added to those passports, just to give us informed consent of the dangers we face when meeting people in public.

JetAlone 5y ago
That's a sad part of the current human condition, we all want to rule each other to minimize the possibility of facing whatever it is we fear or loathe - and most of us fear a loss of control, or even a failure to gain as much control as we feel we could have had. Everybody wants to rule the world.