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We must lockdown healthy people because reasons. Also the bathhouses must be kept open because it's discrimination. It really is incredible

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Sadly, this is the same playbook first deployed for AIDS back in the 80s. I'm not gay but a dear friend of mine, who died of AIDS in 1993, was gay and received an MD and a PhD from NYU and wrote a brilliant thesis about AIDS which totally refutes the propaganda in "And the Band Played On", and for that matter "Angels in America" and all the other narratives that exalt the ACT UP version of events, ie that the Reagan Administration for homophobic religious reasons knowingly let gay men die of AIDS without funding research to understand the disease and find a cure.

None of that is true. The Reagan Administration acted as early as possible, according to my friend's thesis, and strongly. More money was spent per capita on AIDS research than on breast cancer research, which triggered blowback among feminists. The notion of people with AIDS as "victims" not "patients" was codified early and used universally even before the media had been completely acquired by oligarchs and subjected to the current Gleichshaltung.

New York subway ads showed a woman's open handbag, keys, credit cards, etc. with a condom because a very early target of the propaganda was young sexually active (and politically, socially and culturally influential) women--the goal was to convince them that AIDS threatened them and was not, primarily, a homosexual disease transmitted through anal intercourse.

I have a book called "Sexual Ecology" by a gay scholar who pleads with his readers (presumably mostly gay men) that by actively suppressing the true nature of AIDS transmission to make the disease more acceptable politically and culturally, they are putting the gay community at risk because many gay men weren't taking the risks of that sexual practice seriously.

And need I add Anthony Fauci's role--he blew untold amounts of money on a futile quest for an AIDS vaccine and ignored the actually successful approach as long as he could. Back to the future, far in advance of his reprehensible Covid antics.

And here we are again with Monkeypox--the same mendacious, hypocritical, and in fact murderous constellation: a treacly, toxic dose of official sanctimony and humbug. No pun intended . . .

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