(February 10, 2017 at 6:21 pm)Regina Wrote:(February 10, 2017 at 6:01 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Curiously, for the most part they experienced a far lower mortality rate from HIV than my stay in the Midwest cohorts had.That's not so surprising tbh. It's commonly observed that STD rates and mortality from STDs are lower where people are more liberal and open with talking about the problem. It raises awareness and people have more space to take responsibility when they're not so wrapped up in being discreet.
A recent article on HIV DNA analysis of stored medical samples shows circa 1978 5% of the gay men in Frisco were HIV+, we weren't to even know nationally something big was going on till '81 (for me it was 7/11/81 and I did nothing for 5 years after that). These friends of mine were moving to Frisco from '76 on. The first 'indigenous' case I'm aware of in my Midwest peer group was in '87, a friend of mine who hadn't been out of state and therefore contracted it here, and likely later than '81. (I'm not counting 'D' here, a '77 fatality that also 'never went anywhere', but we have no samples to test to see if he did in fact have HIV).
I'm remaining amazed my Frisco friends escaped the worst of it, not knowing anything was going on for years while they lived there wouldn't have been conducive to their odds. Once it was realized something was going on, individuals like Bill Kraus did their best to sound the alarm, but it was unfortunately years too late for so many of them.
Bill included . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
