I'm honestly not all that educated on the whole aids/hiv thing. I was too young to really remember all the propaganda and when my brain started forming memories the big scare died down, so I was left with the aftermath to analyze. Based on what I have seen so far in my life I certainly will not discount the possibility it was dramatized into "fear porn." It is always a win/win for media buzz and the medical world. Scared people are easier to shake down. Especially considering the world did not end is a testament to that fact. Going back and watching all those aids PSAs are some of the most brain dead sounding messages.

Something else I have come to notice and it's kind of tangential, but also off-topic... Does the flu still even exist anymore? Now it's all about people catching covid for their second or third time, but no one ever seems to be catching the flu anymore. It's as if covid overrode the very concept. It's just... something interesting to mull around the noggin.