Ok people you better start doing the research about the information because me and my daughter is out of the country in a few months. These people are crazy.
You are right not to trust the government or any politicians when it comes to disease and epidemics. just look how they let AIDS spread and ignored the warning signs in the homosexual community. It took a brave homosexual to expose the truth.
AIDS: Patient Zero
The tale of Gaetan Dugas, an airline steward called “Patient Zero” by AIDS investigators, is detailed in a book by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts entitled: “And the Band Played On – Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic.” A very important book that all should read – especially homosexuals and straight people who were born in the 70s and anyone interested in understanding the politics of cover up and lies.
According to studies by the federal Centres For Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta cited by Shilts, at least for of the first 250 men diagnosed with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome as of April 1982 had sex with either Dugas or someone else who had. Even as CDC scientists were drawing a map of Dugas’ liaisons that spread across the United States and Canada, Dugas continued picking up men in gay bathhouses in San Francisco.
Shilts said Dugas died in 1984 after contractin the disease in 1981 in Europe through a sexual contact. He was estimated to have had sex with 250 men a year. “Somebody gave this thing to me. I’m not going to give up sex.” Shilts quotes Dugas as telling a University of California doctor who treated him in 1982.
“Lovers were like suntans to him. They would be so wonderful, so sexy for a few days and then fade,” Shilts writes.
According to Shilts, Dugas would turn on the bathhouse light after an encounter and point at the purple lesions on his chest. “Gay cancer. Maybe you’ll get it too,” Shilts quotes Dugas as telling his sexual partners.
Shilts contends in his book that “AIDS did not simply happen to America, it was allowed to happen.”
Relying heavily on freedom of information act requests, Shilts details a story of alleged government underfunding, scientific infighting, blood bank greed, and political squabbling among gay leaders that allowed the disease to march on practically unfettered in the early 1980’s.
Shilts charges America’s bloodbanks with refusing to acknowledge AIDS through transfusion exists, and with being more concerned about the few extra dollars testing blood for AIDS infection would cost.
The Federal Government also refused to take the threat seriously, according to Shilts.
“Some said that Ronald Reagan would be remembered in the history books for one thing above all else: He was the man who had let AIDS rage through America, the leader of the government that when challenged to action had played politics above the health of the American people,” Shilts wrote.
From 1980 to 1985, Shilts said the story of AIDS in America is the story of a plague that was allowed to rampage. “The Federal Government viewed AIDS as a budget problem, local public health officials saw it as a political problem, gay leaders considered AIDS a public relations problem and the news media regarded it as a homosexual problem that would not interest anyone else.” Shilts said. “Few confronted AIDS for what it was: A profoundly threatening medical crisis.
Randy Shilts, Chronicler of AIDS Epidemic, Dies at 42; Journalism: Author of 'And the Band Played On' is credited with awakening nation to the health crisis.
The Times Mirror Company; Los Angeles Times - February 18, 1994, Friday, Home Edition PAGE: A-1, TYPE: Obituary
Jenifer Warren and Richard C. Paddock; Times Staff Writers
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Randy Shilts, a tenacious, award-winning journalist who became the nation's foremost chronicler of gay life and the AIDS epidemic, died early Thursday at his ranch in the Sonoma County redwoods. He was 42.
Shilts, who learned he was infected with HIV in 1987, died of AIDS, according to a statement released by the San Francisco Chronicle, where Shilts worked as a national correspondent.
Best known for his groundbreaking writing on the disease that took his life, Shilts was hailed by gay leaders and fellow journalists as a pioneer whose work propelled AIDS out of anonymity and into the consciousness of mainstream America.
"Each and every person claimed by AIDS is a loss to the movement," said David M. Smith of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "But Randy's contribution was so crucial. He broke through society's denial and was absolutely critical to communicating the reality of AIDS."
William German, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, said the newspaper where Shilts worked for 13 years is indebted to him, as society should be. ………
After several years as a television and free-lance journalist, Shilts was hired by the Chronicle, becoming the first openly gay reporter at a major metropolitan newspaper. That same year marked the emergence of a rare pneumonia and skin cancer afflicting a handful of gay men in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In 1982, Shilts began covering what then was called "the gay plague."
Shilts learned he was infected with HIV the day he wrote the final page of "And the Band Played On" in March, 1987. He had allowed his doctor to test him a year earlier, but asked not to be told the result, fearing it might influence his reporting. He did not disclose his condition publicly until last year.
For three years, he took the drug AZT and his health remained good. Gradually, the drug's effects faded, and in August, 1992, the day before his 41st birthday party, he came down with AIDS-related pneumonia. Four months later, a lung collapsed, and he was forced to dictate the final pages of "Conduct Unbecoming" from his hospital bed. Last year, he was diagnosed with Kaposi's sarcoma, the AIDS-related cancer that causes lesions.
Friends said Shilts had been mostly homebound since then, weak and tethered to an oxygen machine but continuing to enjoy life with his partner, Barry Barbieri, and beloved golden retriever, Dashiel. In January, he managed to take a long-anticipated trip to the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and in August attended what some called a highlight of his life--the Los Angeles screening of HBO's version of "And the Band Played On."
Don't take it, because whatever your belief may be, your decision will determine where your spirit/soul may end up. This is the big one Mable, and I'm coming to you suga.
Fear and distraction is their strategy always has been and always will be along with force, me I'm taking Bobby Hemmitt's advice, and that is to stay focused on my spiritual growth and development.
I knew dat nicca was the 1st horn!?!? Who ever would have believe all this was going down in our lifetime??? It's so fucked because although I've know of the terror to come of some time, my preparation was as much as it could be; I hv no options accross seas to go to and no real money to just show up and see what happens.
I'm posting a video tht is pure horrifying and was taken 'at my house' -NC/SC state line:( , and was taken 6 days ago. I dont hv my own answers however its been past the time to take action. Seek your solutions people because briefly the options will be unavailable. Quite possibly it already is to late.
By Chief Elder Osirisemail: o_akkebala2002@yahoo.comBeloved, please note that by me sharing with Black people our need for a spiritual retreat, such is based on what I know will be the beginning of a Mental Healing for Black people and whether or no…
Beloved Shalom wrote: Not for nothing, but many people cannot keep order for themselves without religion. Religion can help as well as hurt.
Without rules and regulations, there's chaos and anarchy, which is why the Laws of Ma'at was created.
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Reading this, I am reminded of Hon. Chief Elder Osiris Post back in 2008 below.
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RELIGION WEAKEN THE MIND !!!
By Chief Elder Osiris
Come Now and Let Us Reason together, Though Your Sins Be As W…
@ Isis
Not for nothing, but many people cannot keep order for themselves without religion. Religion can help as well as hurt.
Without rules and regulations, there's chaos and anarchy, which is why the Laws of Ma'at was created.
I'm not saying tit…
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