re: WTH? Monkey Pox is transmitted by 90-95%

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Remember if you old enough. The government made everyone afraid we were all going to catch AIDS even though there was no true danger of it in heterosexual communities that were not iv drug users. But they had to make everyone afraid so that we would care.

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This is bullshite. AIDS was originally called GRIDS (Gay Related Immuno Deficiency Syndrome) ans it was believed to be strictly an STD. The public thought only gay men got it, stand the government didn't care very much.

Then AIDS jumped into the hetero community and it became a big deal, because they still didn't know how it was transmitted, and it WAS possible anyone could get. I had 2 good friends in college who got it from blood transfusions. One was a hemophiliac and got regular transfusions. The other was in a severe car accident and received multiple transfusions while in the hospital.

They both died a long time ago.

Of course, donated blood is tested now, so there is little risk of contracting HIV that way now. But back then we just didn't know what was going on.