HIV

Did you know or care that 37 million people live with HIV?  Now if you heard that 37 million people lived with Covid-19, you might likely feel some horror, empathy, sadness, and say we must do something about this.  But with HIV many of us say, :”OH, they got that from sex, and it is their own fault.  Their problem, not mine.”  W tend to blame people who are sick from sex.  But many people are now hanging out in close quarters with one another during the Covid pandemic, and many of us would say, “It is their right,” or “No one can tell me where to go,” and so on.  Many of these people are irresponsible, as in hanging out together in public placers, that are optional. When many of them do get sick, then we say that we must work hard to defeat this Covid, keep the warnings up front, spend money to get a vaccine though many such sick people practiced irresponsible behavior.  With HIV not so much.  We have such prejudices about sex, when we know little about circumstances.  We have much less prejudice or judgment about Covid Behavior when it interferes with our “rights” and individualism.