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kitten seeking answers's avatar

that is so sad his loneliness and rejection by his mom.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I suppose I see the contagion myth underlying it, which combined with Biblical ideas of sin and the like. I ran my marathon in 2010 for AIDS Project Los Angeles for a reason.

He was treated as an untoucable...but why? For what and whom?

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

I wrote an essay about HIV-AIDS as the template for COVIDa few months back. In researching it I found the testimony of activist Christine Maggiore who was diagnosed with HIV to be compelling… she saw through the BS.

https://kitten.substack.com/p/2-17-2024

Christine Maggiore got pregnant after her HIV diagnosis but rejected the “treatments” . She fought to keep her child from being treated going with unconventional celebrity pediatrician Dr. Fleiss (Heidi Fleiss father). She also saw the corruption in the various AIDS charities which were infiltrated by pharma. I think she was a credible threat and I am not convinced her death was due to AIDS.

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Loretta's avatar

I feel all charities are corrupted.

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

from everything I’ve read the “HIV as cause” was likely another scam and pharmaceutical industry huge profit motive (probably even sponsoring the marathon) and now they’re expanding into the heterosexual market to keep the gravy train going with toxic “prep” drugs that supposedly keep the “uninfected safe”

I do remember feeling fearful back then and can understand the mom’s fear but not her rejection of her son. We were used and abused by the system, it’s just a shame that it took until the COVID scam to figure it out.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

Absolutely...

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

You write wonderful narratives, Amy. What a tragic household that was. A while back you posted a meme with a man standing before God, and God was saying something like, “Yeah, you got my word out, but you didn’t have to be a jerk about it.” (I took that to heart.) My takeaway: God is love and not a weapon or cudgel for believers to use on people who are hurting. Fine, hate the sin, but always love the sinner. He or she is one of us. Just because I try to follow Christ doesn’t mean I’m sinless or superior to anybody.

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Loretta's avatar

Amen.

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Louka's avatar

This is a beautifully written and extremely poignant reminiscence, Amy. I remember the absolute terror that was in the air during those days. . . .

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Shield Maiden's avatar

AIDS or the toxic drugs to “treat” it killed my brilliant uncle when he was only 43 and I was still a teenager. He was a geneticist that worked with a team of researchers at the university to find better treatments for leprosy. I wish he had lived long enough for me to get to know him better. I had been raiding his old bookshelves every time we visited my grandparents. I love Ursula K Le Guin because of him.

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Frances Lynch's avatar

From what I have read the killer behind AIDS was Fauci, surprise, surprise. I recall the fictions around AIDS and as I lived in a neighborhood that had a number of gay men, I saw what an impact it had on them. I view AIDS as one more in a long list of medical nightmares that profited the industry.

I am sorry for that poor fellow you spoke of, and that he and his mother were in their own ways victims of medical hypocrisy. At least you were there to be a sympathetic ear and I am sure he was very thankful for your uncritical kindness. May he rest in peace.

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mani malagón's avatar

Minor White, was my photography professor, I went and visited him (always alone for most people were scared) in the ICU as he withered from AIDS in 1975. I was never afraid to to give him a hug or touch him (I say that as a man who is strictly heterosexual, but loves people.) I've said it before: the criminality of lockdowns and isolation during "covid" was punishment reserved for hardened criminals in solitary confinement. And, though not a religious man, I believe that we should follow the example of great teachers, like Jesus, who was unafraid to touch lepers. Lastly, from Anthony Colpo, https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonycolpo/p/why-the-official-aids-story-is-a

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Rhiannon's avatar

Thank you for sharing this experience, and your meaningful thoughts.

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la chevalerie vit's avatar

Thank you for your work.

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