Film recommendation: HBO Max --"It's a Sin." I have never seen a better film about the beginning of the AIDS epidemic than this one. It was superb from the first episode to the last it was brilliant. If you get HBO Max I suggest seeing it or if you don't then perhaps you can rent it. Not sure about that. It is surely well worth it.
I am old enough that I remember the beginning of the AIDS viral epidemic when no one knew what it was and how it spread. It spread among a group that was vilified and subjected to an onslaught of ignorance of which this nation had an abundance and still does. AIDS still has no vaccine but it does have treatment which brings the viral load to zero so it does not spread. Moreover, we were taught what to do to avoid getting or transmitting it and no fights broke out when one obeyed the science directive.
I had a male friend then who was gay and even rational me succumbed to that ignorance in silence for a time assiduously washing my hands wherever I could find a sink because we did not know how it spread but when science overcomes ignorance, religious superstition and stupidity which it always does as it has with AIDS and COVID then a nation can heal itself! Maybe ours will and maybe science will use the COVID mRNA vaccine to finally develop a vaccine that works on AIDS as well.
A virus does not care to whom it spreads. It merely has to have a vector. AIDS did not spread easily but was spread by blood and other bodily fluids through sex or blood transmission. COVID does spread easily and science has taught us how it spreads to the lungs. If unvaccinated through a mere cough the virus can find its home and overcome even the strongest to kill us.
All should get the COVID vaccine and use science to overcome the conspiratorial crazy that has infected our nation.
