John Burns - 5/18/2021 02:54

I think I was a young adult when it was all in the news.

AIDS is still with us with quite a bit of it around as I understand it.

I can't remember for sure the length of the mania but it seems like it was a huge topic for a couple years where everyone was afraid of catching it. Being around someone who has it, kissing someone who has it, touching someone who has it. Almost like ancient leprosy where there was an impulse from the public to banish anyone who has it to some distant island because even being in the same room with someone with AIDS they might become infected.

Now most people don't give it a second thought. We learned it was not as big of deal as was originally thought. A bad disease, for sure. Bad enough that a lot of people died from it. And something no one wants to have even today.

But the fear mongering passed eventually and life went on. Society learned to manage it and live with it.

Didn't they try to make a vaccine? Eventually I think they just learned how to properly to treat it.