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Mystery disease kills gay men – archive, 1981
The Guardin ^ | 12/10/81 | The Guaurdian Archive

Posted on 10/25/2023 11:58:42 AM PDT by DallasBiff

10 December 1981: Cases of a virus that weakens the body’s disease-fighting system have been reported across the US

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: adiosputos; aids; fag; grid; hiv; homosexualaids; qanon; saferbuttsnow
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To: Vermont Lt

I remember the joke.

Guy comes out of the Doctor’s office all happy and shouts out, “It’s Syphilis!”


21 posted on 10/25/2023 12:44:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

True story: I know of a gay man who says he is very far to the right (I won’t say his name). According to him, the likes of Jane Fonda, Rob Reiner, and Anthony Fauci are homophobes, and also according to him, heterosexual privilege is real, and he has a problem with straight men existing.


22 posted on 10/25/2023 12:49:35 PM PDT by Vahan1987
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To: ClearCase_guy

The government suppressed it was predominately gays. They knew it would be harder to obtain funding. That cost lives because it killed a whole generation of hemophiliacs. The government trashed people who wanted to have their kids avoid contact with those who had aids. The government had no problem with avoiding people without the Covid vaccine.


23 posted on 10/25/2023 12:54:10 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: DallasBiff
Look up Nick Petosky @pizzapicklespur on X. He has the goods on how AIDS was created and spread. It was US gov projects.
24 posted on 10/25/2023 12:57:29 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: DallasBiff

You sure are pushing the homosexual/alphabet agenda here lately with your old articles.


25 posted on 10/25/2023 1:00:52 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: AppyPappy
I was diagnosed with cancer in August 1985. The same week, a co-worker in San Francisco reported being seriously ill. I was fortunate to have my cancer treated successfully with surgery and 3000 RADs of radiation through my gut. My co-worker worsened and was taken in by a Catholic priesthood order where he had been in member in the past. He lasted about a month before succumbing. It was AIDS. There wasn't a good treatment option at that point in time.
26 posted on 10/25/2023 1:02:57 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: DallasBiff

These ..... journalists...thinking they are telling the definitive story. The population was and is so clueless they actually think the journalists are always correct.
People knew that hypersexual practitioners were dying of some strange disease in early 1970’s. Famous case of guy ( supposedly a “closeted gay” man) died in 1971 of unknown disease. They had saved his tissue specimens and rechecked them for HIV once they knew it was a virus that caused AIDS. his tissue tested positive...from 1971. Info hit the media in the 80’s or 90’s, than was buried. Now some “journalist” is telling the whole story. Has to beg for money cause they can’t make money being comprehensive in their reporting.


27 posted on 10/25/2023 1:03:09 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: AppyPappy

The funny thing about then was that herpes was all the rage.


28 posted on 10/25/2023 1:08:04 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: frank ballenger

I was at Homestead in the early ‘80s. We got a lot of mileage out of the nasty little mosquitos that a hurricane blew in from Haiti...wondering if they’d recently fed on any gay Haitian junkies. Mean little suckers. If you got sweat on the jets, they’d attack it.


29 posted on 10/25/2023 1:13:05 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: AppyPappy

You went to high school with several male prostitutes? Where was that??


30 posted on 10/25/2023 1:17:09 PM PDT by Burma Jones
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To: DallasBiff

I remember reading something somewhere that said that one of they key “ground zero” events that started the spread of AIDS was a house party of (male) flight attendants right around the Bicentennial, which was of course long before any of us ever heard of it.


31 posted on 10/25/2023 1:20:03 PM PDT by Burma Jones
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To: Steely Tom

Ted should have said “Hush up, you silly goose.”
Brian Stelter or Don Lemon would have.


32 posted on 10/25/2023 1:22:01 PM PDT by frank ballenger (“My job is to inform, not to convince.” St. Bernadette Soubirous )
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To: T.B. Yoits

I also heard that it originated out of Africa, and yes, I believe it involved growing the batches of vaccines in simian cells. It then jumped into humans via the vaccines. If memory serves, “Patient Zero” was a homosexual flight attendant who brought it to the US, in St. Louis (??) I believe, and that’s where it all started.


33 posted on 10/25/2023 1:26:09 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Vermont Lt

Interesting. I was in grad school in SF when AIDS hit. One of my favorite classmates, an incredibly handsome young man, was one of the first in the city to die. Everyone in class wondered whether we’d be next because we didn’t know what it was or how it was spread.

The girls in the class were relived when we learned it was spread by gay men.


34 posted on 10/25/2023 1:27:49 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: dfwgator

Unfortunately, since HIV immunosuppression from HIV can be bettercontrolled with the correct medications(plural) and the strict dosing schedules, syphilis, and HPV, and monkeypox is still being spread among hypersexual practitioners. If they miss the diagnosis of syphilis and don’t treat...that is potentially life taking in the long run. (See tertiary syphilis)


35 posted on 10/25/2023 1:29:17 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Veto!

In Subsaharan Africa is was spread by heterosexual truckers using the prostitutes on their routes.Many practiced anal “sex”. Anal “sex” whether hetero or homo is gonna be better at spreading it than “vanilla” sex.
So your female classmates were not completely out of the woods.


36 posted on 10/25/2023 1:34:31 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: frank ballenger

I recall it being in papers that up to 10% of the Haitian population jn the US had “it”, and speculation that being Haitian predisposed one, genetically, to catching it.
Later, the samples were found to be heavily weighted to known, high risk groups within the Haitian community; i.e. iv drug users, promiscuous, homosexual, hemophiliacs getting copious blood products that were not screened then.


37 posted on 10/25/2023 1:35:26 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (w)
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To: AppyPappy

I knew an older woman whose husband received unscreened blood transfusions during heart bypass surgery. He got it, passed it to her thru sex, died from it, then she died too.


38 posted on 10/25/2023 1:37:54 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (w)
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To: Eccl 10:2

They changed their candy name from AiDS to AYDS. It didn’t help. Out of business.


39 posted on 10/25/2023 1:39:19 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (w)
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To: MeganC
You might find the connections between AIDS/HIV and Saint Fauci to be quite fascinating.

Now that I think of it, I wrote the first brochure to promote Fauci's AIDS drug to doctors and pharmacies: AZT (azidothymidine). Probably millions of those brochures were sent out. It's a typical kind of assignment a science writer gets.

Like the 2021 clot shot, AZT wound up killing a lot of people--it was very toxic, with nasty side-effects. Fauci's touch since then seems to have gotten more deadly, if possible--like a science-fiction plot. Say, some gross, foreign THING that grows inside the patient's blood vessels and consumes him. Obviously way too far-fetched to be believed. . .

Back in the AZT days, I was a kid in my 20s, paying for my cheap Manhattan apartment. To draft the AZT brochure, I interviewed a bunch of scientists who described on the micro level how the drug was supposed to work--as far as anyone knew.

But what's the deal with Mephistopheles--I mean, Fauci? Please pray for the people who have taken his drugs, and also for those who in good faith made (or promoted) them.

40 posted on 10/25/2023 1:50:28 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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