[fwdude]

Maybe the disease can’t be spread through casual contact, but stupid most definitely can. And anyone who contracts HIV through sexual contact or drug use is incorrigibly stupid.

Of course, this 28% figure is being heralded as a great tragedy, and as a “cause”of more HIV transmission, somehow.

[Gay State Conservative]

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.

[mad_as_he$$]

That’s diseasist!

[Steely Tom]

Of course, this 28% figure is being heralded as a great tragedy, and as a “cause” of more HIV transmission, somehow.

Wasn't AIDS caused by Reagan not talking about gay-ness on TV?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A lot of people don’t like hugging strangers, period.

What does that make them?

Strangeophobes?

[lepton]

Hugging is fine. Sharing drinks and utensils is generally a bad idea - even absent HIV - and frankly for both parties.

[PGR88]

HIV is a disease whose cause is as close to 100% as possible directly linked to immediate consequences of one’s own choices.

[READINABLUESTATE]

And I would not shake hands with someone with Ebola, forget about the hugs.

[CitizenUSA]

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.

[CurlyDave]

I am in the “me too” club on this one.

[Truthoverpower]

I don’t know ANYONE with HIV.

and I live in the gay bay.

[Jeff Chandler]

the disease can’t be spread through casual contact

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.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"sharing drinks or utensils"

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.

[Pollster1]

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.

[aquila48]

Who does (and pays for) these “studies”??

[max americana]

Faggots disgust me so I do my best not to even talk to them, so hugging them makes me wanna puke.

[doorgunner69]

Maybe all of them are not as vapid and stupid as it seems?

[Larry Lucido]

I don’t know what “latinx” is but I sure ain’t touching it!

Now a hot Latina, maybe.