Nasty how they define the sufferers to be ‘mostly’ some kind of subhumans anyway. Sexual perverts, drug users, do they really deserve to live? Oh and those people that accidentally got it from a blood transfusion? Well they’re in the minority so let’s just conveniently ignore them.
“And the band played on” is a wonderful discussion of the AIDS epidemic in the Reagan years. Unlike many health crises, this is one that occurred in living memory and where we have the hindsight to assess the trade offs and mania.