Posted on 10/29/2007 8:04:41 PM PDT by blam
So it wasn’t Reagans fault?
Nope... despite what the libs would have you believe.
There is some thought (and scientific evidence to support same) that AIDS actually showed up in the US in 1954, though it was not recognized until June 5, 1981.
HIV has been detected in preserved historical blood samples as far back as *1959*.
Sounds like Johnson’s fault.
It’s not an epidemic unless lots of people get it.
Saying that it was epidemic in 1969, except that very few people had it, makes no sense. Some trigger event pushed the virus from endemic to epidemic in a few years. Even then, many fewer caught AIDS than got the flu, so is it really an epidemic, or sudden media focus?
Patient 0? Mariel Boat Lift? Disco? Something got the ball rolling.
Somebody's "Johnson" in the wrong place.
It was those darn Village People, even if they weren’t all gay.
Seriously, who knows how many people died of “fever of unknown origin” etc. over the years before enough public health officials decided the mysterious deaths had something in common.
I gather medicine has had all manner of imaginative terms for WTF? over the centuries.
*groan*
I thought Reagan caused AIDS because of his hatred of the gay community.
But then, I thought we are all at risk of AIDS, and that AIDS is not a gay disease.
I guess Reagan forced certain people into risky behaviors so he could use them for political gain. IV drug users are another big group of AIDS victims. Remember “just say no” to drugs? Obviously Reagan hated drug users too.
There is some thought (and scientific evidence to support same) that AIDS actually showed up in the US in 1954, though it was not recognized until June 5, 1981.
HIV has been detected in preserved historical blood samples as far back as *1959*.
I remeber reading years ago that AIDS was known to exist back in the 1950's. However, in order to become an epidemic, all it needed was for one infected promiscuous gay man to enter a bathouse, and it was "game over".
When your immune system is compromised, there is always something else it can get classified as.
They probably weren’t dying of WTF, but one or more diseases that had been diagnosed with little defense.
The legacy of the sexual revolution lives on. Revolutionaries take their toll on the populace and stack up the bodies.
They claim that Reagan didn’t do enough. Even with decades of well funded research, there still hasn’t been a cure.
Meanwhile there are still hedonists engaging in barebacking and bug chasing parties.
It sounds like the liberals are trying to re-write history again, they can’t have the AIDs epidemic being traced back to a homosexual. The epidemic took off in this country thanks to patient Zero.
Wasn't there a British sailor in the late 1950's who contracted a mysterious disease that had AIDS like symptoms? I remember reading that blood samples taken from him tested positive for HIV.
Well, 1969 was the year Arafat became chairman of the PLO. Kind of rolls patient zero, out of Africa, and strange cancer all into one. Arafat could easily be described as a pox on the planet.
Roy Cohn would be an obvious one.
I remember a newspaper article about a black teenager, I think in the 1960s, in St. Louis (?), who died of a mysterious disease...the doctors were totally mystified and the patient had been uncommunicative, so they saved a blood sample, and after the AIDS epidemic gained publicity the blood was tested and turned out the boy had had AIDS.
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