Viruses, AIDS, Chinese and Homosexuals
On April 7th, the well-respected journal
Nature ran an article titled “Stop the Coronavirus Stigma Now!” It insisted that the Covid-19 virus should not be associated with Wuhan or China even though the virus originated there either through release from a lab or Chinese culinary practices. Instead, we were to avoid stigmatizing the Chinese.
This has happened before and allow this writer to harken back to another era- specifically, July 27, 1982. On that day, the CDC convened a meeting with the NIH, FDA, the Red Cross, people from the gay community, and blood banks to announce that a baffling new disease- then referred to as the “gay cancer-” was blood-born. It noted that people other than gays were being infected by donated blood. That is, the nation’s blood supply was tainted with what would become known as AIDS. The CDC recommended that gay men stop donating blood until a test was devised to screen donations (no test existed at the time). The CDC asked for assistance in getting the word out. Dr. B.L. Evatt of the CDC described the results of that meeting:
Homosexuals were major blood donors in the large cities on the east and west coasts. It was thought that singling out homo
sexuals for exclusion would unnecessarily stigmatize them without evidence that they were indeed transmitting the disease. The blood industry, threatened by losing a large donor pool, strongly supported the position of the gay groups on this issue.
The CDC was saying nothing about homosexual behavior and no one was asking them to stop being gay. They were merely being asked to stop donating blood until a reliable test could be developed. According to Evatt, the only result of that meeting was agreement that the new disease would be called AIDS because the new name suggested the problem extended beyond the gay community.
Put this in perspective: the gay community was informed of a disaster in the making and one that could kill thousands of innocent people. They were asked to make a small sacrifice- stop donating blood. They responded with resistance because to do so would stigmatize homosexuals. As an added bonus, a new name was given the disease.
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Viruses, AIDS, Chinese and Homosexuals