David Horowitz talks about the AIDS during the initial epidemic in his book “Radical Son”. The health authorities knew very well what it was caused by, but the politics in places like San Francisco made it completely impossible to deal with. It was a hygiene issue, if you will - hundreds or thousands of anonhmous homosexual encounters on a yearly basis. Any efforts to stem the spread were met with howls of outrage and they backed down.
They had some weird notion that catching and spreading venereal disease, was a fight against “sexual fascism” or somesuch twaddle.
And at the same time, they blamed Ronald Reagan for “not doing anything”, and demanding a vaccine, and the government wasn’t spending enough money. The entire thing was completely insane. They insisted or denied simultaneously for quite some time that buggery had anything to do with it at all.
“World AIDS Day was first conceived in August 1987 by James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, two public information officers for the Global Programme on AIDS at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.[5][6] Bunn and Netter took their idea to Dr. Jonathan Mann, Director of the Global Programme on AIDS (now known as UNAIDS)”
“Bunn, a former television broadcast journalist from San Francisco...” 🤔🤔🤔
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_AIDS_Day
Yes, San Francisco police and health department officials knew AIDS was spreading quickly through gay bath houses and clubs but caved under pressure and didn't shut them down.
Instead of shutting down the gay bath houses and clubs, politicians, "advocates" and the propaganda media blamed everything other than sex with infected strangers.
This was in contrast to protecting the public such as with the Golden Square cholera outbreak in London in 1854, where John Snow correctly linked the outbreak to water from the well at Broad Street and Cambridge Street and successfully petitioned the authorities to disable the pump by removing its handle.