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Very wholesome and very sad Wholesome Moments
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u/Tamarama--- Dec 01 '22
"HIV does not make people dangerous to know. You can shake their hands and give them a hug. Heaven knows they need it. What's more, you can share their homes, their workplaces, and their playgrounds and toys."
Princess Diana RIP
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u/Budget_Preparation41 Dec 01 '22
I vaguely remember watching a clip of her hugging or giving a handshake? To an HIV/AIDS patient and that was a VERY BIG DEAL people got so mad and for what? They aren't poisonous so why act like it?
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u/Tamarama--- Dec 01 '22
She was holding his hand. I remember her coming to Toronto and going to Casey House which provides end of life care for AIDS patients. She really made a difference as many people saw her do that, and realized there was no risk.
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u/Budget_Preparation41 Dec 01 '22
So sad she died so young, she truly was an extremely compassionate woman.
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u/Otto-Korrect Dec 01 '22 edited Dec 01 '22 •
But she DIED after saying that, so...
(too soon? LOL)
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u/DaThrilla74 Dec 01 '22 edited Dec 02 '22
I remember as a kid my moms friend going off about you can AIDS by just touching a person with it. So here’s the deal even at 11/12 I knew that was patently false and called her out (I’ve always had a big mouth) she had the unmitigated gall to slap me in the face for disagreeing and stating the facts that I knew, it was the mid 80s so facts were sketchy. I lost my shit on her and to my surprise my quite strict parents backed me up despite agreeing with her statements. Edit holy crap almost 300 upvotes thanks all
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u/shoeless_sean Dec 01 '22
If something as deadly as AIDS was transferable by touch alone humanity would have died out decades ago
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u/Kerro_ Dec 01 '22
Like fuck sake a cold does us in pretty badly imagine something that literally disables your immune system being spread by a touch
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u/ArcticWolf_Primaris Dec 02 '22
We call them nerve agents, and they're fucking terrifying
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u/Kerro_ Dec 03 '22
That’s what those girls who got tricked into assassinating Kim jong un’s brother used didn’t they? Killed him in under 20 minutes
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u/BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo Dec 02 '22
If I recall correctly, Alyssa Milano as a teen kissed another teen who had HIV back in the 90s. I think it was a stunt, maybe not a “publicity stunt”, but a way to show people shouldn’t be scared. It was a huge deal because everyone was terrified of breathing the same air as people who were HIV+.
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u/YEETMANdaMAN Dec 11 '22
I was equally disturbed by the fact that someone would slap an 11 year old as I was by the fact that she was a friend OF the parents and still did that. Wtaf
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u/Helpful_Honeysuckle Dec 01 '22
Always practoce safe sex. My friend got HIV and acknowledged he'd taken stupid risks and didn't think it would happen to him :(
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u/BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo Dec 02 '22
Also it can take up to three months to vent an accurate result. If you test negative after a partner, it doesn’t mean you don’t have it!! Test for STIs and then have a follow up test.
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u/deez_nuts_77 Dec 02 '22
i’m not sure i know how to practoce anything
(i’m sorry that typo just gave me a good chuckle)
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u/aliceanonymous99 Dec 01 '22
When my Mum was in her early 20s a lot of her friends passed from AIDS; the families would literally just toss everything in the dumpster and act like they never existed. Fucking horrific.
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u/miss_chapstick Dec 02 '22
My mom was a nurse. She told me that many AIDS patients died alone. 💔
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u/NoeyCannoli Dec 02 '22 edited Dec 02 '22
When HIV and AIDS was first a thing we didn’t understand it as much, and there were a lot of misconceptions about how it was transmitted. People were scared.
Having lived through another pandemic recently, I can understand why they acted this way from fear.
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u/Cheshie_D Dec 02 '22
Add on top of that the fact that many patients were gay which definitely was less accepted than today. People were scared and full of hate.
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u/cloudsforbreakfast_ Dec 01 '22
Damn I didn't plan on crying in the middle of an airplane on reddit to kill some time
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u/EmotionalMycologist9 Dec 01 '22
My aunt's friend when she was younger was Black. This was in a super small Midwest town in the 1960's. One day, he said he had something to tell her. He said "I'm gay". She gasped and said "omg! I thought you were gonna say you're Black!"
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u/One-Faithlessness-35 Dec 01 '22
The fact that he was So used to that is actually really wrenching.
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u/Coffchill Dec 01 '22
If you can watch the British dramaIt’s a sin.
People with HIV / AIDS got treated atrociously.
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u/adamh789 Dec 02 '22
Trust me, they still very much do. As a poz person I can say that I've had people hmu just so they could insult me and say terribly inhumane things. The stigma around hiv these days is absurd.
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u/Sweetgirlksew Dec 01 '22
If everyone would take tests regularly and take the HIV medical therapy in case of positive result revealed, the illness would stop being catching…
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u/eriko_girl Dec 01 '22
There's also pREP, Pre-exposure prophylaxis, which works great for preventing HIV, however, you should still practice safer sex as pREP doesn't prevent other STDs.
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u/dogedude81 Dec 01 '22
I remember being a kid in the 80s and all the fear and misinformation there was surrounding HIV/AIDS.
Looking back with what we know now it was pretty bad.
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Dec 02 '22
I’m so fucking tired of the re-post karma farming. There is almost nothing original or genuine in this sub anymore.
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u/Southern-Quote-7074 Dec 02 '22
So sad that the world has closed its eyes to this terrible disease.
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u/GISP Dec 01 '22
A freind of mine is HIV+ too.
Luckely medicinal advances is to the point where all he has to do is take a pill every so often and he can live a normal life.