Before the AID’s Epidemic, anyone contracting and being treated for a Venereal Disease was reported to the local Health Department so the “source” of the transmission could be found and future Infections stopped.
As soon as it became abundantly clear that AID’s was Primarily a Gay Man’s Disease, the outcry for Privacy overcame the concern for Public Health.
The Gay Community’s denial of the problem over fears of being Outed (sic) or ostracized killed more Gay Men than the Left could ever try to pin on Reagan with their Lies.
How many Gay Men knew they were Infected, or suspected as much and continued their Multiple Sex Partner Lifestyle?
Yup. The San Francisco gay bathhouse lifestyle was the real killer.
HIV is the first pathogen in history to be granted civil rights.
I had a schoolmate that ended up in Texas that was a Surgical Nurse in the 80’s.
Both he and his nurse “partner” died horrific deaths from AIDS. No telling how many they infected before all of the precautions were enforced.
As long as I live, I’ll never forget that funeral. Try to imagine an open casket with a 30 something friend that looked like he was 100 and had been dead for 10 years.