I have read it. I've seen the people claiming that this will others more likely to actually get tested. That really says a lot about the morality of many of the people afflciated by this doesn't it?
What I find disgusting is the persistent and continuous effort being made in this thread to try normalise and frame HIV as something trivial and easily treated.
Before you say otherwise - there absolutely are people in this thread doing so.
Someone compared it to fucking asthma earlier.
I'll be frank about this: the mentality displayed in this thread with regards to HIV is something I've never seen before in my life. It seems totally unique to this forum and I'm left wondering why that's the case?
Someone (jokingly?) mentioned earlier in this thread that it was because of "reactionary woke-ism".
I think that's exactly what it is.
HIV is an extremely serious condition and those infected with it should not be treated like "normal people" - that's a recipe for disaster.
We should be doing everything in our power to isolate the disease from our species and make the average person almost hysterical about its dangers. It should not be accepted as a normal everyday common cold style infection just because GAF is hellbent on fighting oppression and discrimination.
Public health comes lightyears ahead of the fact that someone with HIV is upset because nobody wants to have sex with them.
You're a disgusting, ignorant person and I get to say that from a perspective of living with HIV for 13 years, being on treatment for 10 years, and living in London and knowing many people currently living with HIV.
It may deeply upset you to hear that my life is extremely mundane and that, yes, I consider myself a normal person. How shocking. I'm 32, my health is excellent, I take one tablet a day with no side effects. I work a normal full-time job, I work out 5 times a week, frankly I'm fitter and have a better body than 95% of 'normal people' as you would like to call them.
I've dated other HIV people around my age all with similar experiences. One is undetectable and doing a PhD, one is undetectable and currently works an extremely demanding job for one of the largest media companies in the world. Normal people living normal lives. Does it upset your prejudices to hear that?
You say we should be making people hysterical about the dangers of HIV - do you have any idea how idiotic and counter-productive that is? What about the lives I've described above makes you think we should be making people hysterical about the disease? Why should we be stigmatising the people who have it, are effectively not infectious, and are living healthy, normal happy lives?
Do not mistake my comments on the reality of living with HIV for saying it's totally fine to get it. Of course anyone who is negative should be taking every step to ensure they don't get it, as you would any other chronic disease. I'm lucky enough to live in the UK and don't need to worry about health insurance but if course that burden weighs greater on someone from the US. But it is not a bad thing to say HIV people now live very normal lives. For one it's the truth and secondly it will actually reduce stigma and fear.
As for disclosing, I don't even hook up with people in clubs or bars. If I hook up or date it's online where I'm totally upfront about my status. And to be honest I've long since chosen to only date other people who are HIV positive (extremely easy in a city like London, probably a pain in the ass if you live somewhere more remote). It's just easier and means I don't need to risk meeting abhorrent, fear-mongering individuals like yourself.
So that's my experience based on living nearly half my life with the disease, being extremely educated about the condition I have, speaking to doctors at a world class HIV hospital and knowing many people with the virus.
Meanwhile your vile and hate-filled rhetoric has been informed how? Or did you pull it from your ass?