Posted on 12/03/2020 8:45:27 PM PST by simpson96
Lessons learned decades ago from the activism spawned by the anemic government response to the AIDS pandemic helped sharpen the state and local response to the coronavirus, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday.
Lightfoot drew what she called a “straight line” between the two pandemics during a “virtual conversation” with other mayors to commemorate World AIDS Day 2020.
The forum was sponsored by the National AIDS Memorial and included New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Robert Garcia, their counterpart in Long Beach, Ca.
Chicago’s first openly-gay mayor recalled having traveled to New York City for a Pride Parade shortly after coming out to her parents. She said a “huge swell” of parade participants, some from the AIDS activist group, ACT UP, were chanting, “How many more have to die?”
“Just retelling the story now gives me chills. ... Too many government actors were ignoring this horrible pandemic that was sweeping through — not just gay and lesbian communities across the country and across the world. It was affecting lots of other folks,” Lightfoot said.
“Then, come to this moment where we’re facing another pandemic of global proportions. Put aside the federal government. But at least at the state and local level, where we have been all in on the front lines — the difference is profound. The difference really is because of those early AIDS activists who were out in the streets.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
“AIDS was a “pandemic”, says Groot”
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For homosexuals, “Bi men” and druggies, it was - and still is.
Only without shutdowns, quarantines, and contact tracing.
Can’t have any stigma, ya know.
Why is AIDS considered a pandemic?
Isn’t it an easily avoided pathogen?
Lord Fauci told us that we would be facing an outbreak of heterosexual AIDS.
When is that prediction gonna come true?
And why didn’t he request that they self-quarantine to save Grandma? You don’t have to be sick with Covid to be told to sit down and shut up and wear a mask every day.
California has even decriminalized knowingly transmitting AIDS.
Per Worldometers, tonight the country with the highest deaths per 1MM citizens was Belgium at 1,467.
So...please tell me again Mayor Lightweight...if...
lessons learned decades ago from the activism spawned by the anemic government response to the AIDS pandemic helped sharpen the state and local response to the coronavirus
...how it is that Cook County (if it was a country) would have the highest per capital fatality rate from COVID19 of any country on the planet?
Growing up in the 1980s, AIDS activists wanted somebody, anybody (other than themselves), to create miracle cure without having to do any of the work or change any of their behavior. The rest of us had to deal with it.
AIDS was called the first disease that had civil rights. Covid is the disease which takes all rights away. Including the right to work and buy food.
Don’t confuse Mayor “light in the Loafers” Lightfoot. She thinks a Panda is a single case in the COVID 19 virus pandemic.
Boy is she a dumb Marxist bitch, but then again, Chicago Democrats voted for her (except, or perhaps, including some who have been shot-down in the streets or their homes during her reign of terror and neglect).
Chicago: Add it to the list of Democrat run and ruined cities cities to be nuked from space, just to be sure.
Ugh! AIDS activism was all about preventing confinement of gays and now these gaslighters want to portray themselves as sanitation heros of confinement mt??
Give me a freaking break. What utter bull sht.
Notwithstanding the aids activists resisted a sexual and personal confinement from social contacts... and now these same a$$ holes want to put us in camps and social isolation...
Notwithstanding the aids activists resisted a sexual and personal confinement from social contacts... and now these same a$$ holes want to put us in camps and social isolation...
My recollection of events early in the spread of AIDS was that there was resistance to closing the bathhouses (with accusations of bigotry), then revisionist history indicating the government did nothing.
The powerful “gay lobby” did implement some strict medical confidentiality laws; that is a silver lining to the whole thing.
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