U.N. Health Body Aims to Have Majority of Cases Isolated Within Two Months to Reverse Outbreak
This is going to come out wrong because OF COURSE I am happy Ebola is being taken seriously. But does the general population FINALLY get what it must have felt like to be completely IGNORED in the '80s when 100% of people with AIDS were dying and no one gave a damn? (I'm looking at you, Reagan worshippers.) Something about this is reopening a wound and reminding me that people I loved could very well still be here if society at large hadn't been so vile and hateful.
Canada Launches Clinical Trials of Ebola Vaccine
This is already happening -- as it should be. No one is having to beg and protest, this is how society should react to something killing its members.
Canada Launches Clinical Trials of Ebola Vaccine
This is already happening -- as it should be. No one is having to beg and protest, this is how society should react to something killing its members.
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kenneth, i've had the same thoughts, although i don't like speculating on who might be living now.
most of my hiv+ friends committed "suicide by substances" due to the sheer hopelessness and complete lack of acknowledgement that anything was happening by government officials. i give credit to the health care workers who finally stepped up in the vacuum, but it was many years too little, many years too late.
it infuriates me every time i think of what government & police attitudes, traditional healthcare, and public sentiment were like in the mid 80's to early 90's. we were lucky enough to have a state of the art treatment facility, but they were overwhelmed, and could do very little than track the symptoms and deaths early on.
i don't know if they would have lasted long enough for treatment, but it's sad to think about how they spent their last days.
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