Luckily, my friend has never been promiscuous and didn't engage in risky sex. Thank God, because my life would not have been as rich had I lost him when everyone around us was dying. After that, for whatever reason, it became an "everyone can get it" disease. Had the disease spread as fast as the fear and rumors, it would be much more prevalent among heterosexuals. Had advocates not tried to be so damn politically correct by spreading the fear so many lives could have been saved.
Cindie
Actually this was the result of the GLBT/liberal/MSM /PC crowd insisting that the truth about the propagation of HIV/AIDS never be directly attributed to the gay community for fear of public backlash. In fact this effort resulted in passage of numerous laws preventing governments from tracing infected people "to protect their privacy".
To this day HIV positive persons (depending on state) have a great deal of protection from publicity, far in excess of those having other infectious diseases that might also pose a health risk to the public at large. In most states HIV/AIDS sufferers are NOT required to declare that they are infected to health care professionals, of any kind......doctors, nurses, dentists, etc., all are now at much elevated risk, because they have "no right to know" that a potential patient is HIV positive.......which not only places the health profession at higher risk, but akso potentially risks everyone else that they treat.
It went so far in the mid-80's as to include public affairs TV and radio commercials as well as inclusion in public school health cirricula, as though it were a disease that was a general public risk......
all of which was a complete fabrication. With the exclusion of transfusion risk, HIV/AIDS has never been a risk to the public at large, and in the US at least, the number of new infections resulting from OTHER that homosexual contact, or IV drug use is so close to zero as to be statisticly insignificant.
When you objectivly consider that IV drug users are destined to remove themselves from the public in a variety of ways that may or may not include HIV/AIDS, they essentially become self-expendable.......
Leaving only homosexuals as the primary problem with this disease.......
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