I realize that Rush has talked about AIDS as the politicization of disease and I don’t mean to repeat his points but I arrived at similar conclusions long ago.
I remember all the praise for Randy Shilts ‘And The Band Played On,’ the TV film ‘An Early Frost’ etc. All of this was meant to evoke sympathy for what, in many cases, was contraction of AIDS by people who knew full well what the risks were and, to make matters worse, resisted any calls to modify, curtail or condemn the practices and hot spots contributing to the spread of the disease.
And then we had the AIDS quilt and the rest of it. Utter insanity. Even if we allow for, say, 25% of victims being unwitting victims that leaves the balance as, of course, witting victims. This would be like a convention of people with smashed thumbs who collectively refused to stop swinging hammers at their own hands.
In the meantime, a 70 year old heterosexual man who lived on the East Coast of a vast landmass and who just happened to be president at the time was somehow faulted for the result of what homosexuals on the West Coast were getting up to in bathhouses, clubs, etc.
‘The Myth Of Heterosexual AIDS’ was published and it was unassailable in its facts but that didn’t stop the outcry against it.
The historical revisionism and contemporary blinders still rankle: ‘We didn’t know what it was! We didn’t know how it was transmitted! We didn’t know how to stop it!’ Absolute rot. They knew, we knew and the fact that treatment was lacking should have stopped the carriers in their tracks but irresponsible people are, well, irresponsible. And so we got a long of hypocritical finger-pointing and sanctimony about how it was society’s problem etc.
Oh no, said the homo lobby, we don't want to use condoms. We want to go unprotected, and somebody should find a cure for AIDS. And they actually had the gall to blame Reagan for something they could have easily prevented themselves. That's why I say G..d the whole friggin' homo lobby.