[Telepathic Intruder]

“It's been spun in such a negative way that HIV is a punishment for your sins,” Dacus said.

It is also a complete myth that the wages of sin is death. I'm a policy advisor, I should know.

[Albion Wilde]

It is also a complete myth that the wages of sin is death. I'm a policy advisor, I should know.

The original statement was from the Bible, and the death it is referring to is not the physical death of the body, but the death of the immortal soul and exclusion from eternal life.