Something To Ponder: Covid vs. AIDS Death Comparison

 

Wouldn't it be queer if the shoe was on the other foot?

The reports are out and roughly 6 million people died of a Covid related disease in two years!!!   That should shock people.  People should be devastated.  When HIV was the gay cancer, people were so quick to point out that it was a disease of homosexuals, men mostly.  That put a deep dark label on our community for decades.  People like Ryan White and Magic Johnson were exceptions to that rule.  It was a virus that attacked the immune system, and believe it or not, there are many others that do the same thing, just ask Venus Williams.

In the 45 years of AIDS in the world, there have been roughly 23 million deaths!  That is staggeringly high and the disease was horrible to the very end.   If you compare covid to HIV without any of the medications that we now have...that would be 3 million people every year for 45 years...that's 135,000,000 if the disease lasted as long as the HIV virus has compared to the 23 million that AIDS took.  Think about that!  Think about how one community bore the brunt of a disease that is less deadly than Covid by far.  I want you to consider this too.

If it wasn't for those 23 million people with AIDS that died and the people that loved them, we would definitely not know about mRNA treatments and vaccines.  We would not know about antivirals that were specifically made to keep people healthy and kill the virus that causes AIDS and probably kills the covid virus that we are dealing with now.  It will also help in making the covid situation manageable for people at risk for years to come.  I actually have a lot of friends that have been on these protease inhibitor antivirals for years now, you know something, I don't know a single one that got sick or even got Covid.  Now that doesn't mean they didn't but they never felt sick enough to even have to get tested.   I am not a doctor, but I know for a fact that the antivirals that I've taken for almost twenty years have kept me from getting sick for a long time!  I get flu shots because they are recommended for HIV patients.  I haven't had the flu either.

For some of you, you should be ashamed of yourselves.  Others who didn't stigmatize the disease that killed so many of my friends, thank you for your compassion and dedication.  If you were one of those people that avoided people with AIDS, I submit this.  You couldn't have gotten HIV from being kind or giving us a hug or a kiss, unlike the disease that most straight people are spreading by not getting vaccinate or not wearing a mask.  Those people should be feared because they don't understand that many of those people are the ones that hated the gays for AIDS.  It's sad to think that an airborne virus isn't being thought of as that serious when it has killed faster than HIV ever did.  Nobody is looking at you and saying this is a straight disease are they?  Nope, they left sexuality out of it.  A disease is a disease.  When people die, we should ALL be concerned.

I hope we can do even more to keep people from getting HIV in the future, our community has suffered greatly in the past.  We all should be thankful so many people cared for so long!!!

What I am trying to say is this for all of those out there that blamed the gay community for AIDS.  My point is that Covid is, simply by the numbers, spread by straight people, it is more deadly and easier to get, but you don't see the gays blaming the heterosexuals because we know that once you have something it doesn't matter how you got it, it's all about how you fight it.  Straight people that don't like gays for this virus we carried the brunt of for years, you should be thanking us for the time, effort and money that the people that loved us put in to keeping us alive.  People like Elton John and all the rest.  People loved humanity enough to fight this disease so that the next time "AIDS" came around, or something like it, that everyone could be safer.  Thank your closest friend with HIV for what you will live through now that there are quick vaccines and antivirals.

You're welcome...lol!!!