Posted on 12/24/2019 8:49:47 AM PST by fwdude
More than one-quarter of HIV-negative millennials report that they avoid hugging, talking, or being friends with someone who is HIV-positive, according to a new study from the Prevention Access Campaign and the phamaceutical company Merck.
The study uncovered widespread ignorance and stigma from young people when it comes to HIV. Thirty percent of HIV-negative millennials (people between the ages of 23 and 36) said they would prefer not to interact socially with someone with HIV. One in three Black and Latinx millennials reported avoiding even shaking hands or sharing drinks or utensils with someone with HIV. In reality, the disease cannot be spread through casual contact.
(Excerpt) Read more at hivplusmag.com ...
Of course, this 28% figure is being heralded as a great tragedy, and as a “cause”of more HIV transmission, somehow.
There are many,many innocent victims of AIDS in this world. But not many in the West...and certainly not many at all in the US.
That’s diseasist!
Wasn't AIDS caused by Reagan not talking about gay-ness on TV?
A lot of people don’t like hugging strangers, period.
What does that make them?
Strangeophobes?
Hugging is fine. Sharing drinks and utensils is generally a bad idea - even absent HIV - and frankly for both parties.
[[and certainly not many at all in the US.]]
I dunno bout that- children born HIV positive- kids stepping on dirty aids infected needles- doctors, nurses, healthcare workers getting stuck with needles when working on aids patients- bi sexual aids infected people spreading the disease willy nilly (gay people often have over a 1000 partners in their lifetime according to some estimates)- kid with aids chewing on eraser or pencil, leaves it behind, another kid comes along and chews on it-
That’s just a few scenarios right off the bat- emergency workers with an open sore tending to crash victim with aids-
Then there’s the other STD’s gay people spread around-
HIV is a disease whose cause is as close to 100% as possible directly linked to immediate consequences of one’s own choices.
And I would not shake hands with someone with Ebola, forget about the hugs.
Liberals’ misplaced compassion is why they’re trying to destigmatize HIV. There is an HIV sperm bank in I think Australia. And it is why California eliminated the felony penalty for intentionally having sex without telling someone you had HIV.
The survival instinct isn’t a bad thing. Humans are naturally repelled by disease, human waste, etc..
Call it homophobia if you wish, but the disgust many have toward homosexuality isn’t just repulsion toward sex with members of one’s same sex. It’s also based on legitimate, scientific even, understanding of the disease spreading nature of anal sex with hundreds if not thousands of sex partners.
The fact that we now have means to mitigate such things as AIDS doesn’t mean that the underlying acts that spread it are now OK. They remain high risk and self destructive regardless.
The virus is simply a virus with no volition. Therefore, the disease itself shouldn’t be stigmatized but the activities that spread it certainly should be.
I am in the “me too” club on this one.
Ugh, one of the lib Austin, TX tv stations had the Austin Gay Mens Choir singing this morning.
Twenty years ago, we had a neighbor who’d bring over goodies for us on a weekly basis. She swore her son had xyz disease but we later suspected it was AIDS. It angers us we didn’t put two and two together and eating those back fence treats.
I don’t know ANYONE with HIV.
and I live in the gay bay.
The only person I share those things with is Mrs. Chandler. And there is no way I share those things with children, like you see mothers doing. Children are germ factories.
People with compromised immune systems are vectors for all kinds of diseases, so a person with HIV can be a health threat to those around him.
That is a guaranteed way to exchange microbes.
Anyone who does this is asking for infectious disease. Maybe they want the attention they get for having HIV.
I don’t share drinks or utensils with those who are diseased. I don’t hug people who are perverts or IV drug addicts. Is that hard to understand? As for people with HIV, one of my closest friends died of AIDS - after 30-plus years of successfully managing hemophilia - but that is the only person I have ever known who contracted that easily-avoided disease.
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