AIDS is a plague allowed to happen (If you haven't read this, I really think you should)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/14/larry.kramer.aids/index.html

By Larry Kramer, Special to CNN
January 14, 2011 1:20 p.m. EST

"New York City (CNN) -- I want this article to break your heart. But it deals with a subject that has had a tough time of it in the break-everyone's-heart department. I'll bet that a number of you will be more angry at me than sympathetic by the time you finish reading it. If indeed you finish reading it.

From its very beginning, most people have not wanted to know the truths about AIDS. This is an indisputable fact that continues until this very minute. I have been on the front lines since Day 1, so I know what I'm talking about."

*then* they'd do something about it.

(to paraphrase bell hooks), it's the "white supremacist capitalist homophobic patriarchy" who make the rules.

That was a real consciousness raiser. Rec'd.

But because it's transmitted in a "controlled" fashion, it's an exceptionally useful killer.

I knew this when I was 8 years old. If it had been an airborne virus, we would have had the cure in 5 years or less. Since it's a disease of "sin," there will never be a cure in the open market.

I'd like to ask a simple question though- when was the last time you heard about a Congress critter with AIDS? We know they're having sex with people they aren't supposed to.

But you're exactly right that because of the way it spreads, it's almost the perfect killing machine. In fact, that extends well beyond just how it's transmitted, also into how it operates in the human body. Manifest and kill too quickly, and it isn't transmitted as much. Go slow, and manage to be fatal in nearly all cases.

In fact, I think there was years ago. Controlling the cure controls the cycle of death.

Glad to see Larry still telling it like it is. And he certainly lays out the hate against us, hate that so many insist does not exist. Got here too late to recommend but this will at least :kick: it.

You see, I simply can't get the memories and the ghosts of just about every friend I had out of my life. And since there is no doubt in my mind that this plague of HIV/AIDS that took them from me was and continues to be allowed to happen, I am duty bound to tell this hideous history as best and as fully as I can. It's the least I can do.

That is correct: This plague of HIV/AIDS was intentionally allowed to happen. It still is. Nothing has changed in the intentionality department. Hate has a way of hanging around forever and too often winning out in the end.

The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Larry Kramer.

No they're not. I share the same opinions about AIDS that Larry does. HIV/AIDS was intentionally allowed to happen.

I lost 75% of my dearest friends and peers, including my best friend and long-time companion.

Thank you, Larry.

but I just saw it now.

I just wanted to say that I am sorry for all of your losses.
All I can offer is a :hug:, I wish I could offer real comfort.