It you want to eliminate the scourge of AIDS just think of two acronyms; to wit GAY, for Got Aids Yet, and AIDS, as in Anal Injected Death Sentence. Sadly I don’t have one for the use of illegal street drugs. Maybe next week.
The AIDS activist movement loves to detest American President, but refuses to address the root causes of a largely self-inflicted disease, from Slate: [1]
When Annette Gaudino, a longtime activist with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, or ACT UP, realized that Donald Trump was going to win the election, she felt a sick sense of déjà vu. Now a middle-aged woman with an established career in health care advocacy, living in a world where the vice president of the United States presides over gay marriages, she suddenly remembered what it was like to be a young person consigned to marginality and surrounded by death. “It’s new and unprecedented, but also so familiar,” Gaudino says of our reactionary moment. “That’s what makes it feel like you’re in a dream. I could swear this happened when I was 25. How is it happening now that I’m 50? We had this little window where we all fell a little bit for the illusion of progress, but it’s like, oh, just kidding.”
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No one yet knows how this model will apply to the multifaceted dangers portended by Trump. “The first meeting was in many ways the easy meeting, because people are just so happy to find each other and everyone is so happy to have a chance to do something,” says Jeremiah Johnson, one of the ACT UP members who called the Nov. 22 gathering. “At the second meeting, suddenly you realize that everyone in the room has a different vision for what this group is and how it should function, and there’s no hierarchy, because it’s grass-roots.” Still, he says, “I’m incredibly optimistic right now because just the past week I’ve been flooded with emails of people doing things to try and contribute to the group.”
In so far as I know, neither former President Ronald Reagan nor future President Donald Trump ever infected anybody. So I suggest to the ilk of ACT-UP, instead looking to Washington for your AIDS villain, just look in the mirror. Now leave me alone.