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Originally Posted by SSDiva
Yes, I can tell you that's what they think because I worked for a community health outreach program.. when trying to educate people about HIV and AIDS I was completely dumbfucked with the things I heard. Some of these people wouldn't come in for testing, so no they aren't waiting on a miracle cocktail. Through this program, I've worked with clean needle programs, the education of married women who recently discovered that they were HIV+...some through prenatal screenings etc.. the most uneducated were the married women. So unless you came face to face with some of these people, you can't tell me whats out there..when I know personally!! That job took a lot out of me emotionally and I don't usually mention it to anyone..but I cannot let the absolute wrong information get out there..when I witnessed it first hand. Do you know what it's like to promise five women in one day that you'd get tested with them so that they would feel comfortable? or what it's like to hear a 60 yo woman's questions of how did she get this, when she has been married and faithful for 35+ years??
Yeah, all those people want to live with a deadly virus on cocktails...how absurd!
ETA: Ignorance in the 90's wasn't being ultra-scared..it was lack of educating yourself how it is transmitted. It was Reagan who ignored the CDC, and other organizations outcry about this disease..if he had only paid attention early on, think how HIV could've been contained!!
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Well I think there was a lot about AIDS we didn't know in the early stages. BUT... I do know that we were taught about it in high school- and the entire safe sex thing too.
My brother, a former ER orderly/medic, was accidentally stabbed by a needled used on an AIDS patient. The patient came into the ER seizing/freaking out basically, and after they administered drugs, the patient grabbed the syringe and started stabbing wildly before the drugs took affect. He got stabbed. He was scared outta his mind and had to be tested for years.
I do think a lot of young people today think they are 'supermen/women' and that if they contract AIDS (or anything else) there's always a pill for it. Stupidity knows no gender, race, demographic, etc. I see rich, white kids with the same indestructible attitude.
As a child of the 80s, I can tell you that it was fear that kept me and my friends celibate. Even though we knew about safe sex, we knew the best chance of not getting AIDS was to not have sex at all. It wasn't worth the risk. And now I see people my own age going bareback, rough dog, whatever... and it makes me ill.