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re: For those who were adults during HIV panic
Posted on 3/19/20 at 11:31 am to 3morereps
Posted on 3/19/20 at 11:31 am to 3morereps
Schools did a great job of fear mongering. Unlike Covid-19, the chances of contracting HIV are extremely low and, if you’re a heterosexual male that doesn’t use IV drugs, the risk of contracting HIV are almost zero.
They didn’t stop my middle school from telling us that we would get HIV and die from kissing.
They didn’t stop my middle school from telling us that we would get HIV and die from kissing.
This post was edited on 3/19/20 at 11:34 am
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Posted on 3/19/20 at 11:32 am to 3morereps
If you weren’t sharing needles or having unprotected sex with infected people it was much ado about nothing.
Posted on 3/19/20 at 11:33 am to SavageOrangeJug
Posted on 3/19/20 at 11:34 am to 3morereps
I was a bartender and getting a goodly amount of trim. Never really worried about AIDS, but did put a wrapper on it because I was more concerned with getting her knocked up. Settled down in 86, so did not worry about it anymore.
Posted on 3/19/20 at 11:34 am to 3morereps
There really wasn’t a panic.
It was a scary time though because it was basically a death sentence back then. There was lots of misinformation floating around about how contagious it was and what the transmission methods were.
Lots of people got it through blood and it made its way from the gay community to everyone as an STD. I would say in the very early stages it was mainly viewed as a gay only disease.
It’s still not an STD you want to fool with though even if the treatments have come a long way.
It was a scary time though because it was basically a death sentence back then. There was lots of misinformation floating around about how contagious it was and what the transmission methods were.
Lots of people got it through blood and it made its way from the gay community to everyone as an STD. I would say in the very early stages it was mainly viewed as a gay only disease.
It’s still not an STD you want to fool with though even if the treatments have come a long way.
Posted on 3/19/20 at 11:47 am to kywildcatfanone
I was a med student when Magic Johnson came out and said he had tested positive for HIV. It got real for a lot of people at that time. HIV still didn't have much penetration in the city where I went to med school and did my post-graduate medical training, but we did get the patients from a fairly large area as we were the safety net hospital for a large region.
The AIDS patients we had were typically very sick, and it was what I would call uncomfortable, but the medical community was getting a handle on spread rates, ease of transmissibility, and most importantly routes of transmissibility. I remember putting everything I could into being alert while drawing labs on HIV patients while dead tired in the middle of the night (yes in years past med students and interns had to collect blood samples, get them to the lab, and run down results). Magic Johnson's announcement was a bit of a watershed for how this disease was perceived and treated and had a hugely positive impact on patient access to treatment and ultimately survival.
This is of course different and although case fatality in general may turn out to be relatively low across all populations taken as a whole (please read that sentence carefully), the potential for raw numbers of those infected is several orders of magnitude greater than with HIV. The social and economic impact of SARS-CoV2 has been immeasurably greater than that of HIV, and that is immediately obvious to anyone.
The AIDS patients we had were typically very sick, and it was what I would call uncomfortable, but the medical community was getting a handle on spread rates, ease of transmissibility, and most importantly routes of transmissibility. I remember putting everything I could into being alert while drawing labs on HIV patients while dead tired in the middle of the night (yes in years past med students and interns had to collect blood samples, get them to the lab, and run down results). Magic Johnson's announcement was a bit of a watershed for how this disease was perceived and treated and had a hugely positive impact on patient access to treatment and ultimately survival.
This is of course different and although case fatality in general may turn out to be relatively low across all populations taken as a whole (please read that sentence carefully), the potential for raw numbers of those infected is several orders of magnitude greater than with HIV. The social and economic impact of SARS-CoV2 has been immeasurably greater than that of HIV, and that is immediately obvious to anyone.
Posted on 3/19/20 at 11:48 am to 3morereps
The was no panic. Awareness was raise.
Posted on 3/19/20 at 4:56 pm to Jim Rockford
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Not gay and didn't sleep around, so it had no effect other than seeing morbid news stories about it.
Well, we know at least two gay [down voters] post here.
Posted on 3/19/20 at 5:36 pm to TDsngumbo
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TDsngumbo
My wife was watching me scroll this thread and asked me what the 1908 on the shirt in your sig meant. I told her it was most likely LSU first championship. She said "1908? Does that actually count?" I said Honey, we are Alabama fans and we probably shouldn't ask those questions
Posted on 3/19/20 at 5:51 pm to Nole Man
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Back in the Day"? I think it was scarier because the narrative back then was a 100% death rate. You didn't know who had the Aids
Yep. That’s how it was in the very beginning. A lot of unknowns compared to this situation.
Posted on 3/19/20 at 5:56 pm to LSURussian
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There was no panic.
If you had been sport fricking oh yes there was!
Posted on 3/19/20 at 5:56 pm to 3morereps
The answer for the HIV scare was don’t shoot up and watch where you put your penis.
The answer to this is a lot more concerning since it’s so contagious and easily spread by touch, and lives so long on surfaces.
In both cases however, there doesn’t seem to be a short supply of those not taking it serious, and behaving irresponsibly.
The answer to this is a lot more concerning since it’s so contagious and easily spread by touch, and lives so long on surfaces.
In both cases however, there doesn’t seem to be a short supply of those not taking it serious, and behaving irresponsibly.
Posted on 3/19/20 at 5:59 pm to 3morereps
It was weird watching Rock Hudson, Liberace and Gomer Pyle finally own their orientations.
Posted on 3/19/20 at 6:00 pm to 3morereps
I knew nobody that contracted HIV just like I know nobody that has contracted COVID-19, but there was TP and hand sanitizer then, and I didn't have to stay in my fricking house.
Posted on 3/19/20 at 6:03 pm to 3morereps
Nice try, I’m not looking to get banned
Posted on 3/19/20 at 6:16 pm to bee Rye
I was a med student and no one really knew except if you got it you died. We had a sick 60 yo female who was in the ER and I asked the entire if we should test her, He laughed and said no way resident said sure and she was positive. She ended up being a ho
Posted on 3/19/20 at 6:18 pm to 3morereps
People were more concerned about dying. Or having something that was pretty much thought of as a death sentence at that time
This is more of a panic, and avoidable. When the aids deal hit, you started thinking back a few years at your bad decisions
This is more of a panic, and avoidable. When the aids deal hit, you started thinking back a few years at your bad decisions
Posted on 3/19/20 at 6:18 pm to 3morereps
quote:We shot the queers and burned the bodies.
I know it was nothing like this but what was it like?
Posted on 3/19/20 at 6:33 pm to 3morereps
I wasn’t gay nor suffer from hemophilia. I was good.
Posted on 3/19/20 at 6:37 pm to Capt ST
I never knew what a bath house was till HIV. So no I didn't panic. I never knew anyone that got it. Perhaps a distant relative where rumors were spoken about the ghey.
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