That's an excellent point! Fauci discouraged off-patent treatment to AIDS patients in the 1980s and then advocated treating them with toxic patented AZT to maximize pharmaceutical profits. He also used AIDS to increase his personal power and agency budget. RFK Jr pointed out Fauci followed a similar script years later during COVID-19. It surprises me so many gay men venerate Fauci for being "America's doctor" during Covid, completely forgetting that SILENCE=DEATH was originally a protest against the government's and Fauci's horrific mishandling of the AIDS crisis.
Collective memory is short it seems! Plus that was 30-40 years ago and many of the younger generation don’t remember. I do, because I had a gay business partner who died of AIDS in the early 90’s (or perhaps more accurately, died of the treatment for it?)
As I understand it, people do not die of AIDS, they die with it. Same idea with COVID; people don't necessarily die of it, they die with it. Or as you and MDJD pointed out, sometimes they died because of the boneheaded "treatment" and other factors, not because of the pathogens that show up after a person is already weakened in some manner.
And a common denominator in both those time periods was, wait for it…..
FAUCI!
That's an excellent point! Fauci discouraged off-patent treatment to AIDS patients in the 1980s and then advocated treating them with toxic patented AZT to maximize pharmaceutical profits. He also used AIDS to increase his personal power and agency budget. RFK Jr pointed out Fauci followed a similar script years later during COVID-19. It surprises me so many gay men venerate Fauci for being "America's doctor" during Covid, completely forgetting that SILENCE=DEATH was originally a protest against the government's and Fauci's horrific mishandling of the AIDS crisis.
Collective memory is short it seems! Plus that was 30-40 years ago and many of the younger generation don’t remember. I do, because I had a gay business partner who died of AIDS in the early 90’s (or perhaps more accurately, died of the treatment for it?)
It really is.
As I understand it, people do not die of AIDS, they die with it. Same idea with COVID; people don't necessarily die of it, they die with it. Or as you and MDJD pointed out, sometimes they died because of the boneheaded "treatment" and other factors, not because of the pathogens that show up after a person is already weakened in some manner.
Exactly. That appears to be their business model!
Correction. I should have written "HIV" instead od "AIDS."
Great point