October 27, 2009

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyP9eLrvcAA#movie_player

  It's a little old and, as far as how to deliver a speech goes, it's absolutely awful, but to most of us the AIDS epidemic doesn't elicit the littlest bit of fear. And that's scary. Scary that something which was so huge, so cruel in the reactions it got from others, and so awful a thing to suffer should be forgotten so quickly.

  It's difficult to imagine what it was like back then, to not know whether the next cold will kill you. Or to just watch the total apathy from everyone else in doing anything about it. To see the fear it created, to hear about others talking about creating camps to dump the infected in. Just think about it - the unknowning...and the death. Death upon death upon death.

  It's important - and it's still important.

  • 11:04 pm
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