AIDS

because the GOP wanted those with AIDS to be Self Isolated

Compare with today where the GOP is arguing AGAINST Self Isolation

See video below

It all comes down to straight men not wanting to be fucked in the butt. It’s a basis for all their decisions

Today in Science Magazine:

It’s not an AIDS vaccine but it may be the closest thing to one so far. A long-acting antiretroviral drug given as an injection every 2 months powerfully protected uninfected people from HIV in a large-scale study that was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The apparent success offers a potentially easier alternative to taking daily pills of other antiretrovirals, which has proved difficult for many people.

If HIV started in the straight community there would absolutely be a vaccine by now. It’s still seem as a gay disease by the uninformed masses.

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Because COVID is disproportionately killing fags. Lets be honest, the only reason COVID is getting such a globalized response is because it can infect anyone and is hampering the economy. That's the only reason.

[quote]If HIV started in the straight community there would absolutely be a vaccine by now.

Hello? Africa calling, its AIDS, we came from the straight people first.

To be honest, no one cared about gay people dying except for gay people. It took brave activist like Act UP to get the attention of media and politicians and that was not easy. Most people still though gays were just an fluke and even if they personally didn't hate them, which a lot did, they didn't care if they all died out either. Got what they deserved was the mentality of most breeders at the time.

Immunology and genetics and other science topics that are essential to understanding viruses and treating them were in their infancy in the 1980s. We don't have a vaccine for coronavirus yet and it's not altogether certain we will have one, as one hasn't been successfully developed for other coronaviruses.

Here's an interesting abstract from 15 years ago about the development of vaccines for coronaviruses:

[quote]Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged in China and spread globally as a human pandemic. It is caused by a new coronavirus (CoV) of suspect animal origin. The emergence of SARS stunned medical scientists, but veterinary virologists had previously recognized CoVs as causing fatal respiratory or enteric disease in animals with interspecies transmission and wildlife reservoirs. Because of its public health impact, major efforts are focused on development of SARS vaccines. Occurrence of CoV disease at mucosal surfaces necessitates the stimulation of local immunity, having an impact on the vaccine type, delivery and adjuvant needed to achieve mucosal immunity. Such immunity is often short-lived, requires frequent boosting and may not prevent re-infection, all factors complicating CoV vaccine design. SARS vaccine efforts should be enhanced by understanding the correlates of protection and reasons for the success or failure of animal CoV vaccines. This review will focus on studies of immunity and protection in swine to the enteric CoV, transmissible gastroenteritis (TGEV) versus the respiratory variant, porcine respiratory CoV (PRCV), comparing live, inactivated and subunit vaccines, various vaccine vectors, routes and adjuvants. In addition avian infectious bronchitis CoV (IBV) vaccines targeted for protection of the upper respiratory tract of chickens are discussed. Unfortunately, despite long-term efforts, effective vaccines to prevent enteric CoV infections remain elusive, and generally live, but not killed vaccines, have induced the most consistent protection against animal CoVs. Confirmation of the pathogenesis of SARS in humans or animals models that mimic SARS may further aid in vaccine design and evaluation.

HIV was/is an unusual virus in the manner it replicates and hangs out in the body. Gay vs str8 has nothing to do with any of this. Antiviral treatments of all kinds were still in the earliest stages when HIV took hold in humans. But scientists got to work almost immediately to find treatments; but it was a long path towards creating successful treatments. Nevertheless it was less than 15 years from the emergency of HIV/AIDS and successful treatments.

Thanks for sharing, R3. It's about time.

When I went to Callen-Lorde to get PrEP for the first time and expressed concern about side effects, the very nice clinician said that injectable long-term PrEP was on the horizon.

That was four years ago!

Thank you OP for this thread subject. I’ve thought a lot about then and now. I’m old and it only makes me angry and bitter. All I have now is a memory bank of young and talented friends cut down in their prime. If C19 only affected gays or blacks, It would be a non-event.

R7 didn't get the memo. People from sub'Saharan Africa are not considered human anywhere, that's why they are not mentioned — least of all on the DL

What am I, R12, chopped liver?