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.
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.
I’m going to point out that whether or not this is a “gay disease or not, we need to find a real cure for it.
If you’d like a nightmare, let me give you one. Imagine if HIV-1 were an airbone or simple contact vector virus; in other words, if you could get it by simply breathing it in or by simple touch, like flu or colds. No, HIV isn’t that way ****right now****, but all it takes is a few favorable random mutations or some crazy b***ard in biosciences (and there are quite a few in the Middle East and Southeast Asia) to weaponize it.
Given HIV’s long “incubation” time, someone could deploy it *everywhere* in the Western world, and nobody would notice until it was far, far too late.