The problem for the left was that a disease that was almost entirely limited to people engaging in risky behaviors was not a way to get funding for the disease or sympathy for the sufferers. That’s how the myth was born that AIDS affected everyone equally. That’s also how AIDS became, after cancer, the best-funded disease in America despite its relative rarity.
Michael Fumento finally exposed the deception in 1988 with a famous article entitled “The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS”:
The main problem with using AIDS to terrify heterosexuals into chastity is that it requires gross exaggeration of the risk. AIDS is a bloodborne disease that, 10 years after the first heterosexual AIDS cases began showing up in New York City, remains confined almost exclusively to homosexuals, intravenous (IV) drug abusers, recipients of blood products prior to 1986, and their steady sexual partners.
Only about two percent of all diagnosed AIDS cases in this country have been attributed to heterosexual transmission in native-born Americans, a figure that has held steady for several years now. In New York City, the heterosexual AIDS capital of the United States, only eight males have been identified as having gotten AIDS from heterosexual intercourse.
Wuhan virus is a nasty disease. However, if we had we protected the vulnerable (the old and those with pre-existing conditions), and then gone along with business as usual, it would have passed through America like nothing more than a terrible flu season. Instead, though, just as Democrats weaponized AIDS, they also weaponized the Wuhan virus.
That’s their playbook. As Rahm Emanuel told his fellow Democrats, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”
And politically, the homosexual and assorted liberal activists blamed Ronald Reagan for the spread of AIDS.
They blamed him for not spending enough healthcare research and resource money on AIDS. They blamed him for reacting too slowly to the AIDS crisis.
They didn’t blame people who engaged in risky behaviors which spread AIDS. They blamed Reagan for not doing enough to fight AIDS.
Which all says a lot about the mindset of certain people.
It’s worth noting Fauci reached hero status because he led the effort to change the narrative away from AIDS being a homosexual disease which it was.
On top of that porn stars are at high risk of HIV. In fact a female porn Star is at higher risk of HIV than a female legal prostitute.
There was one more class of people with the AIDS problem not mentioned in the article and that is Hatian men.
Im a bit confused though. Heterosexual people DID get AIDS and women were the most vulnarable of all when exposed. And heterosexuals do get AIDS.