If AIDS/HIV had been treated like a medical/public health problem ( like TB, Typhoid, etc.) from the beginning, many, many lives would have been saved.
If it were discovered that Christians were the 'Patient Zeroes' causing 'Male-Pattern-Baldness' the entire media, intelligentsia and glitterati (except for Hair Club For Men) would form the lynch mob.
Random aside: it’s been suggested that the ability to grow facial and body hair may indeed be related to MPB.
So maybe the comic was right: we don’t lose hair so much as it moves around?
And rightfully so!
Re: If AIDS/HIV had been treated like a medical/public health problem ( like TB, Typhoid, etc.) from the beginning, many, many lives would have been saved.
Your observation was brought out in the book referenced in the NYTimes article, “And the Band Played On” by Randy Shilts. Politics and political correctness allowed the disease to spread and kept potential victims from being warned or even informed of risk factors. But if the entire AIDS epidemic were to start today, it is clear to me that the even greater level of political correctness would have resulted in an even greater epidemic.