Has it been 40 years? Seems like only yesterday AIDS made it on to the world stage?!! You don't hear much about AIDS anymore, just HIV?!! With hopes of eradicating AIDS badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic, we look at the fight against the deadly condition since its emergence 40 years ago, as the planet marks World AIDS Day on Wednesday. - 1981: First alert - In June 1981, US epidemiologists report five cases of a rare form of pneumonia in gay men in California, some of whom have died. Unusual versions of skin cancer are identified in others. It is the first alert about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), still unknown and unnamed. Doctors identify "opportunistic infections" among injected drug-users late in the year and in hemophiliacs and Haitian residents in the United States (mid-1982). The term AIDS appears for the first time in 1982. - 1983: Identifying HIV - In January 1983, researchers in France, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Jean-Claude Chermann, working under Luc Montagnier, identify the virus that "might be" responsible for AIDS. It is dubbed LAV. The following year, US specialist Robert Gallo is said to have found the "probable" cause of AIDS, the retrovirus HTLV-III. The two viruses turn out to be one and the same, and in May 1986 it becomes officially known as the human immuno-deficiency virus, or HIV. Barre-Sinoussi and Montagnier win a Nobel prize in 2008 for their discovery. - 1987: Anti-retroviral treatment - In March 1987, the first anti-retroviral treatment known as AZT is authorised in the US. It is expensive and has many side effects. The World Health Organization (WHO) declares December 1, 1988 the first World AIDS Day, to raise awareness. By June the following year, the number of AIDS cases worldwide is estimated at more than 150,000. - Early 1990s: Falling stars - US actor Rock Hudson is the first high-profile AIDS death in October 1985. A host of other stars succumb to the disease, including British singer and Queen frontman Freddie Mercury (November 1991) and the legendary Russian dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev (January 1993). https://www.yahoo.com/news/aids-time...112235850.html
As a note, Tony Fauci was one of the big reasons why the solution to AIDS took much longer to realize than it should have. Like CV-19 he forced the resources into the Vaccine direction and ignored Therapeutics for years and years. The answer ended up being Therapeutics. My Uncle Bobby was gay, lived in San Francisco, and died because of AIDS in the 1980's. I wish Fauci was not in charge for that crisis.
In California it’s only a misdemeanor to have sex with someone and not tell them you’re infected with AIDS. But expect a SWAT team to show up if you’re not infected with anything and want a sandwich if you don’t have the jabs.
AIDS is racist, or so says Biden. Is there anything that isn’t racist, anything at all? Biden on World AIDS Day declares racism a ‘public health threat’ https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-world-aids-day-racism-public-health-threat
Those are facts. Everyone knows Fauci totally screwed up the response to AIDS costing many deaths for years as he focused on a vaccine and ignored therapeutics. It's not something people dispute... until today's Leftists came along. My Uncle Bobby died of AIDS in the 1980's in San Francisco. I've tracked and know about this like everyone else that followed the AIDS saga knows. Again... it's not something people argue about. Everyone knows Fauci and his team screwed up AIDS in a huge way.
The US in general has a big blemish for our response to AIDS. Most people tried vainly to say AIDS was limited to degenerate gay men, then Haitians, then dentists when AIDS was rampant in Africa and primarily a heterosexual disease. I think Faucci was not very good at his leading the effort to combat AIDS but I don't ascribe anything nefarious to him or strongly criticize his competence. He was dealing with something nobody knew anything about. Reminds me of a great old saw (probably unacceptable these days) about the hardest job of a young man with AIDS was convincing his mother that he was Haitian.
