[Salman]

Read the whole thing.

[ShadowAce]

Gay pediatricisn

Two words that should never go together.

< shiver >

[PeterPrinciple]

".....For example, in the mid-1980s, I once expressed my exasperation to an employer that some people thought that AIDS was God's punishment for homosexuality. He looked at me sharply and said, "Ron, how do you know that it's not?" Indeed, I don't know the mind of the Deity, but if He wants me to believe that He punishing gays with AIDS, He'll have to tell me so Himself....."

"How do you know it is not?" is a good response. There are consequences to behaviors and homersexuality is a behavior!

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

Ahhhhhhhhh..the disease Reagan started....Along with the crack epidemic.

SARCASM

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I read the whole article. Sad, but not one mention of what would truly stop the AIDS empidemic, a man keeping his penis out of the rear of another man.......

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

How would you like to find out your doctor is engaging in risky behavior? Should they have disclosure laws for healthcare providers?

[aligncare]

...In the early days of the epidemic, the gay communities of major cities were devastated and attending the funerals of friends who died young...

And yet, during that same time frame, the "gay community" fought every normal, customary, neccessary, common sense health measure for preventing the spread of a disease, available to the public health community.

Political correctness thus insured the spread of the virus to epidemic proportions.

[BigSkyFreeper]

By chance I became aware of AIDS early on. For three months in 1980

We were all made aware of it in 1980. Back then, liberal creeps like you blamed Reagan for creating AIDS.

[demkicker]

The best hope for stopping the AIDS epidemic is the development of an effective vaccine.

Wrong. The best hope for stopping the AIDS epidemic is for everyone to only use their anuses to defecate. Problem would be solved...

[Buck W.]

I became aware of it in the early 80s. I belonged to an organization called the American Institute of Decision Sciences (aka AIDS) that changed its name as the disease became big news.

[little jeremiah]

List material, I presume.

[tallhappy]

Read the whole thing.

OK. And...

This article is liberal propaganda from the gitgo.

Another irrational liberal diatribe from an irrational liberal magazine.

We live in an age os serious irrationality and inability or refusal to reason. The AIDS epidemic and the reaction to, discussion of and taboos about are one of the best examples. It is pellegra all over, yet it is 25 years and still can't be or won't be admitted that the diseases is broadly, evenly fraudulently diagnosed and that the etiology is environment based not infectious.

But this is the ultimate political correctness and it is huge huge huge money all the way around.

[IronJack]

my friend did manage to enjoy the thriving downtown gay club scene with some frequency.

Not having read any farther, why do I get the feeling that later in this tale of woe, we're going to be expected to feel sorry for his "friend," whose perverted dallyings resulted in his dying a horrible death from AIDS?

[Dilbert56]

Additionally, there is the concern that if pharmaceutical companies are not allowed to profit from the medicines they invent, their incentive produce new ones in the future will be impaired.

I can't believe this level of pragmatism could be in an article about AIDS. This author actually articulated the basic fact that escapes all the other "drugs should be free" advocates.

It's a good thing that, as George Clooney pointed out, Hollywood was so out in front on this. They cranked out a movie only twenty years after the threat was identified.

[verity]

"as the writer of an in-house newsletter for the advertising department of The New Yorker. "

Girly boy.

[Bon mots]

These young men get AIDS from being improperly reared.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

A crock of an article. This disease is priviliged by the government. It is treated differently from others. This means that the disease will infect more people. PC kills.