Re:Save the melodramatic crap (Score 1)

The "spectre" is due to activism. Like most folks I no more fear AIDS than I do uncurable brain cancer. Like most people, my odds of getting either are close to nil. TB, on the other hand can and does infect perfectly normal people who happen to walk past third-worlders who have invaded the USA. People can and do catch TB competely unaware of how they received it, and completely unaware of what they could have done to avoid it ... other than stay home all day.

And no, most of us do NOT know someone who has AIDS. On the other hand, most of us DO know many, many people with Alzheimers, with cancer, with rheumatoid arthritis and a host of other debilitating and often fatal diseases for which there is no cure or even effective treatment ... and certainly diseases for which there are no fancy celebratory Broadway musicals.

The dollars spent on medical research and treatment for each AIDS fatality are massive compared to dozens of other fatal diseases that don't get the same activism.