FROM THE ARCHIVE: Early Coverage of AIDS Epidemic on Ch. 5

Here is a sampling of Channel 5's coverage of AIDS from 1982, 1985, and 1990. The first segment, from July 14, 1982, is believed to be Channel 5's first mention of the illness on air. Note that when AIDS first emerged, it was referred to as a mystery illness, the so-called gay plague, and more. Some of the terms used in the initial reporting are now considered offensive.
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[@thomassodomizer764]

Good post. I love historical footage like this. Like opening up a time capsule.

[@Unshippedpaper]

same. That's how I landed here. XD

[@MatiusLenin]

Darrell Raymond Yates - Rist was born February 26, 1948, and died December 23, 1993, of an AIDS related disease.

[@transportservices4767]

Dretiko on KZbin deserves more than praises, because he has saved a lot of souls from sickness and death, thank you Doctor for curing me completely.

[@asabejona9330]

Thanks for your good work and total cure for herpes Dretiko on KZbin have the cure to herpes virus..

[@donnaniemi]

My husband died on 12/21/1989. I still miss him ever

[@marin1419]

@@donnaniemidue to Aids? Rip

[@GaryEtheridge-d5n]

Rest In Peace Darrell ❤ Gone Too Soon

[@michaelr5100]

"Why aren't you informing people who test positive for AIDS?" "Being told today or waiting weeks or months is not prejudicial" 🤯

[@darksol544]

In 1985 they still didn’t know for sure that being HIV positive was leading to aids in 99% (multiple time in media they reassured “it doesn’t mean this person will develop aids but simply mean it was exposed to the virus and developed antibodies”). Now hearing this today is a shock but back in the time…

[@gustavohorn2194]

That comment of his aged like fire in a lit match

[@pussydestroyer87]

You left "to health" off the end of the quote.

[@chriswick7987]

I was never in a “risk group”, born in 75. But I remember the overblown paranoia of that whole time period. I was nervous the whole 90s decade, just dating. It was good to raise awareness, but EXACTLY explaining how it’s transmitted might have helped.

[@josem588]

American youth in the 70s and 80s : 😏👉👌🥵🌿💉 Mexican (and Latin American) youth in the 70s and 80s : 😇🚫🥵😏👉👌🌿💉 This pretty much explains why it was such a big problem in usa.

[@stevencoardvenice]

There is some truth to that. There was definitely an overcorrection in the 90s when I was in HS. They tried to scare us into believing that guys who engage in hetero sx can contract the hiv. Which is ridiculous and extremely unlikely. Just another example of how public health policymakers feel totally entitled to LIE to the public when they deem it to be for the greater good. Sad

[@erictaylor5462]

My grandmother passed away in September 1984. Before she passed she had a blood transfusion and a couple of weeks later we got a call from the hospital. The blood she was given had been contaminated with HIV. This was way to common in the early to mid 1980's. So while she passed away long before the virus could have an effect, she did contract the disease before her death.

[@katvtay]

My condolences on her passing. It was such a scary time. May I ask how in 1984 they knew she got a contaminated blood transfusion? Testing wasn’t available until spring 1985. They did have big publishings of isolating the virus in France in May 1983, then in the US in April 1984, but everyone who reportedly got tainted blood products before 1985 mostly only knew they did if they became ill with AIDS. So I’m wondering what that hospital knew about her particular donation…

[@Bulltardwin]

Did they put her on Suramin? It's likely she died of that, rather than HIV.

[@jonathanmichaud8484]

Thanks for sharing archives on youtube, it make history and is educating. Much love from canada

[@jackbajar]

i can imagine how such a scary time that was

[@jusliving7977]

Terrifying

[@tarikdtarik9067]

True but on the other hand all they had to do is put a condom it works

[@sethmorgenroth6784]

@@tarikdtarik9067It was already too late at the beginning of the epidemic. It take literal years for HIV to progress to AIDS. So a lot of these people were being infected at the beginning of the 70s. Nowadays, I agree with you.

[@ggl2947]

​​A person infected with HIV can take up to between 10 to 15 years to develop AIDS, so some people in 1981 was infected probably since 1971 ​and given the fact that scientists found traces of HIV in blood samples from a teenager in rural America back in the 50s tells us this thing has been slowly and inadvetently spreading among the US society since a very long time ago @@tarikdtarik9067

[@jflsdknf]

@@tarikdtarik9067 Yes but at the time they had no idea how it was spread and thought it could be casual contact.

[@Biscuit1973]

I was then 11 years old around that time when this deadly disease was still an epidemic in the 80’s and people then didn’t even know how it’s transmitted because I remember watching the news which had stories of children being taken out of schools by their parents since another child was living with aids because of the fear of catching the virus since people didn’t know how its contracted back then .

[@LMB222]

I was 9. The fear was horrible.

[@Abraham-SolomonZoeAdeyem-up6qw]

Yea, the brain is a horrible thing to false permanence... Yea... Curse after curse and you just gonna break your heart that that holy ghost or holy spirit or Eoz Nor Vwa-Kheillie want you...

[@modickens1272]

The first symptom of AIDS was almost always, a pounding sensation in the butt.

[@rml1919]

It was that way with the crack epidemic too. One thing I can say about the 80s. People, mainly conservatives, were very ignorant to science back then. It's still that way till this day actually. Many of them conservatives hate science. 😆

[@johnl5350]

I remember that being the case I think in 89 or 90. I don't remember exactly but I remember at least the way kids talked about it was hysterical.

[@MichaelJacksonzGlove]

2:15. He eventually passed away in 93 of Aids. 😢 That is surreal and really makes you realize how scary of a time it was. People who were otherwise healthy were dropping like flies

[@Neon_Dion]

Trying to figure out why they thought waiting weeks/months before telling someone they contracted the disease was healthy and safe in any way 🤔

[@jtexas4629]

The man explained it pretty well. It was not a test to see if the person had AIDS but rather to see if any HIV antibodies were present in the blood and it was done to avoid using blood that could possibly be contaminated with the virus. They were retesting the positive results to see if the patient had AIDS. Keep in mind at that time there were no regular hiv tests available. And they couldn’t very well tell a patient they could possibly be infected without more medical certainty. They were even training the medical personal on how to deliver the results to the patient.

[@elijahpeso]

@@jtexas4629 and you believe it took months to train on how to tell someone they could possibly have aids? they wanted it to spread, if you know something say something period

[@stiltongeronimo]

@@elijahpesoat that time it took a lot of time to detect the antibodies

[@katvtay]

@@stiltongeronimoWhile the first gen ELISA test did take longer than testing available now, listen again to what was said; the results came back positive, yet they were not telling donors of their results. My takeaway as to why (knowing the history and what is said in the video), is they knew one positive test was enough to dump the blood, but not enough to tell the person their results, as they’d want to test again. The problem with that is it was not cost effective. Testing again was only for the benefit for the donor, and like they gave two hoots about that. One may wonder, why didn’t they at least tell the donors of the results, and they could followup with their doctor? Because testing individually was not rolled out yet. ELISAs were almost entirely only designated for blood centers, not patients who wanted to test at their doctor in 1985. Such a terrible time in history.

[@dalestephen1361]

@@katvtay Yes, exactly.

[@SiobhanNkodithePom]

I don’t have HIV, but I refuse to forget this period of time. I wasn’t even born until ‘89. I will remind my peers for the rest of my life about this. It’s an important part of history, and even though I wasn’t there, I still want it remembered.

[@ShineBox-jn8mh]

Yes, I'm an 86 baby and love watching new reports from the early 90's news videos, they seem like skits now. Watch a lot about apartied in SA, the troubles, I actually live only 4 miles away from the city centre when the bomb went boom and remember the noise, the Yugoslav wars etc. It like there from Robocop 😂

[@dondamon4669]

What's your point?

[@KristalStanley-wf5ll]

I was born in 1983. I was absolutely terrified as a child of it. It sucked. I didn't even want to touch other kids hands. I was a real hypochondriac and then constantly referring to this disease as the plague made it that much worse

[@stevencoardvenice]

Everyone had aiids

[@Rebeccaac]

My immunologist who diagnosed me with a genetic immune disorder is in the court sketch. I would be so interested in hearing about his time at the front lines of the AIDS crisis.

[@rodriguezisrelic]

It was a time when real journalism actually happened.

[@irishjoe5868]

Excellent comment. I wish this were true today.

[@josem588]

@@irishjoe5868 American youth in the 70s and 80s : 😏👉👌💉🌿 Mexican youth in the 70s and 80s : 😇❌🚫💉🌿😏👉👌 This pretty much explains why that was such a big problem in the us

[@josem588]

@@irishjoe5868 as a Mexican I don’t know why am I here if AIDS didn’t affect my country

[@stormhawk3319]

Looks like 82 was the year it really started to kick off.

[@sophiawilson8696]

If you look at couples case in 50's there were men who died of Aids. The doctors didn't know what it was.

[@dora1980]

@@sophiawilson8696 I've heard that too , I don't know if it was in the '50s but it was much earlier than 1980.

[@ggl2947]

​@dora1980 It's documented by scientists backed with blood samples from a teenager in rural America that this kid died of AIDS back in the 50's. Apparently, he got it from sexual abuse perpetrated on him by adults when he was a kid

[@caveman385]

1981 San Francisco is where and when it was designated as the official discovery but there was a younf male as early as the mid 60's with symptoms which are no believed to be AIDS. It was actually a man made virus caused by scientists who injected extracted DNA from apes with SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) as a cure for polio into African people, can't remember but i seen a documentary saying the Congo or something. Initially it showed promising signs in eliminating polio but it then went terribly wrong and those treated ffor polio started to become very ill and die very quickly and it just snowballed from human to human, that was in the 50s or 60's.

[@caveman385]

​@@sophiawilson8696 AIDs was man made by scientists who caused it in Humans by trying to treat polio with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus infected DNA from apes.

[@RobertoLopezstudyis]

Thank you for sharibg this video.

[@joewhitehead3]

To think, people still get infected with it to this day

[@dosquintoiuos]

People get infected with all konds of virus and bacteria nad pathogens that have been around millions of years, let alone decades

[@batmandestroys1978]

Yes and they do not want to talk about i,t and yet we have LGBT people, who are more at risk more than straight people!

[@dora1980]

Do you know why they get infected now? Because now NOBODY talks about AIDS. People act like it doesn't exist!

[@caveman385]

Yeah, but if not cured its as close as to being cured today with the likes of Prep and drugs like that which eliminates any viral load and keeps it at zero if the drugs are taken regimentally.

[@dollphobicc1947]

And a lot of those people are heterosexual cis people.

[@notshylo]

From what I can tell, Veronica Prego is still alive. Her New York medical licence is still active.

[@veneration1]

She conned the court out of $1.5 million ? No one in 1988 could survive AIDS.

[@sbwification2]

If she stopped taking AZT she should have been fine.

[@notshylo]

@@sbwification2 🙄

[@tacianoborges6210]

2:07 crazy and sad that he actually died from aids like a decade later

[@kisha1682]

Poor Ryan white! He was treated horribly by his neighbors because of this!

[@funkyflights]

This virus has taken so many lives, it’s really sad.. New drugs are great, but people are still dying from it even today ..

[@richardstevens8839]

So Prego got that Needlestick injury. The syringe I presume must have a degree of blood as it needs a substantial amount of blood for transference

[@jtexas4629]

The needle was used to draw blood from a patient with AIDS. There's always leftover blood in the reservoir since the vacutainer (tube used for drawing) creates a vacuum. Same reason why people who shared needles for drugs were becoming infected.

[@Ocea8i53]

thanks for uploading this.. I thought that the first child school case was thst of ryan white.

[@Unshippedpaper]

"under state law aids is not considered a communicable disease"... wait what?! How did they explain the spread then? lol Yeah, this didn't age well. It was new and never seen before though, so that's understandable.

[@thevoid5503]

Was this also the very first mention on tv period? It first appeared in a NYTimes article in 1981.

[@Louise_0]

People are shocked by the language and attitudes used in 1985 but do you not think people will look back in history and be shocked at the things we are currently allowing? I can think of at least 2 things right off the back that future generations will wonder what an earth we were thinking/ how did we allow such abuse of kids.

[@agentcooper6179]

What crazy shit are you blathering about?

[@joewhitehead3]

Can you be more specific?

[@Chris_34]

What are you getting at, Louise?

[@ytaxer6853]

@@Chris_34he’s trying to say that informing very young children of the illegitimate ideology that they can be whatever gender they please, instead of teaching them to be who they ACTUALLY are, children come out as blank papers and their parents and peers write on them. “Gender identity” is also socially constructed with no foundational basis while the emphasis of 2 distinct genders is backed by science with thousands of years of foundational biological evidence.

[@leaguesoflegends9868]

​@@ytaxer6853 i think you need to get meds for schizophrenia no offense

[@michaelphillips7282]

Whatever happened to Dr. Prego? I can't find any updated information about her condition.

[@TomLeach-dd8cl]

Has she given birth yet? 😅

[@dupeaccount1647]

There's a NY doctor named Veronica Prego (same first name), about the correct age too listed if you search for doctors on google. Probably her.

[@ShineBox-jn8mh]

I remember "full blown aids" was an actual scientific term

[@Jay-we5nq]

The fact they waited to give folks with a positive test their results is beyond irresponsible! How could you decide that was the best decision for the people let alone the person with the positive test.

[@sigsin1]

If they had just said exactly what causes it. But they never did. I was 22 and remember when they started talking about ‘the gay plague’ on the news. I was concerned, being a lesbian, then quickly found out what caused it. I lost a lot of friends.

[@Evil-Keks]

The goverment monsters did nothing to help the people. It was 100% intentional. I was born in the 00s but even I understand.

[@JacquelinElizabethWrites]

Dr Veronica Preggo is still alive and a practicing gastroenterology.

[@TrueBrit1]

I'm not so sure that is the same person. I looked it up too, and I couldn't find one article or link confirming it was the same person. She settled out of court in 1990 for, allegedly, $1.35m and then apparently retired back to Argentina, with apparently nothing having been heard about her since. I would be surprised if she had survived, as her prognosis was that she had only 1 year to live back in 1990 (apparently the main reason she settled quickly), she didn't look well in the video from then, and that treatment back then was still not that effective, and certainly was not advanced enough to greatly extend life, and certainly not to the degree that one could lead a normal life with a normal life expectancy. Sadly, I think that was a different person, but if you can prove otherwise, please let me know, as it'd be great if she is still here.

[@darksol544]

@@TrueBrit1I agree with you Being in pre aids stage and on AZT in 1990 usually meant 12-18 months surviving. HAART became available only in 1996 which is a very long time for an aids patient.

[@john-si9yc]

@@TrueBrit1 I agree it would be a long shot if she survived. Its hard to find any info on her past the 1990 settlement.

[@Marketoromagnolo]

do yiou know what happened to the doctor?

[@25kmike73]

Who was in charge of the CDC back then?

[@hankhill5498]

RIP

[@leewightman8001]

Shocking

[@transportservices4767]

Dretiko on KZbin deserves more than praises, because he has saved a lot of souls from sickness and death, thank you Doctor for curing me completely.

[@deborah9245]

If the world had more people like you, it would be a better place. You make a difference Dretiko on KZbin thank you for curing my type 2 herpes

[@bromisovalum8417]

no GRIDS?

[@johniii8147]

Oh that 80's womens big hair. Glad we moved on from that as well a HIV having to be fatal.

[@Youttubi]

@johniii8147, "big" hair was not just in the 80s. What do you call afros that black people wear or the Farrah Fawcett hairstyle? There was also high ponytails and beehives. Why are you hating on that? People still wear "big" hair today.

[@mzwaneleshange6671]

Level of ignorance is always magnified in that country....

[@TheGenXtatic]

“Inject themselves with needles”……….WTF are they going to inject themselves with?

[@figgiepooh81]

Dr Prego is still alive today.

[@hadronoftheseus8829]

Yeah, I just looked that up. Glad she survived.

[@julieann4616]

@@hadronoftheseus8829 I saw her @ a glory hole last week. 🥳

[@TrueBrit1]

When I looked it up, I thought the same thing, but now I'm not so sure that is the same person. I looked it up too, and I couldn't find one article or link confirming it was the same person. She settled out of court in 1990 for, allegedly, $1.35m and then apparently retired back to Argentina, with apparently nothing having been heard about her since. I would be surprised if she had survived, as her prognosis was that she had only 1 year to live back in 1990 (apparently the main reason she settled quickly), she didn't look well in the video from then, and that treatment back then was still not that effective, and certainly was not advanced enough to greatly extend life, and certainly not to the degree that one could lead a normal life with a normal life expectancy. Sadly, I think that was a different person, but if you can prove otherwise, please let me know, as it'd be great if she is still here.

[@figgiepooh81]

​@TrueBrit1 What makes me think it's the same person is the fact that the Gastroenterologist Dr.Veronica Prego I looked up is the same age (65) and graduated from medical in school in Argentina in 1980 ( the same year and place she graduated- according to newspaper archives about the case) Of course, Prego is a fairly common Italian surname that many doctors probably have in Argentina (most people in Argentina are of Italian descent) & Veronica is also a fairly common first name. It could just be a strange coincidence, but it seems more likely that it's the same person. Who knows?

[@ralphieholland]

Some footage contains very poor attempts at subliminal messaging ie 1min 40sec ish.

[@jamesbehrje4279]

"An aids child"??? What a demeaning way to talk about children with a disease!!!

[@LMB222]

Welcome to the "wonderful" 1980"s.

[@potcha]

The preferred term is child of aids

[@jeffschmeganheiman]

Maybe you can build a time machine and go back in time and express your outrage?

[@opaljk4835]

@@jeffschmeganheimanlol, why be such a jerk?

[@gregory7567]

​@LMB222 80s was not as cool as people make it out to be. So I appreciate the quotations 😂

[@dianac2498]

The media is a powerful machine that has the potential to do irreparable damage - contributing to suffering untold. I’m not sure why some of those employed in the industry still to this day don’t get it. It’s sad.

[@JBrooksNYS]

9:50 you would never hear such blunt wording in todays news lol

[@regankatona4275]

*From one get go it wasn't still known which one was worse, whether taking meds or AIDS itself*

[@deborah9245]

If the world had more people like you, it would be a better place. You make a difference Dretiko on KZbin thank you for curing my type 2 herpes

[@asabejona9330]

Thanks for your good work and total cure for herpes Dretiko on KZbin have the cure to herpes virus..

[@DavidMiller-kf1ss]

Max robinson, rip.😢

[@slapshot68]

Imagine if trump said “Gay Plague”

[@immabeamazing]

well he did say "china virus"

[@jessepferr2814]

@@immabeamazing very different

[@potcha]

And the media assured us it couldn’t possibly be from a China lab

[@Unshippedpaper]

That's not hard to imagine! XD

[@25kmike73]

Imagine if Biden said the poor kids are just as dumb as the white kids

[@PariahKamikaze]

Times are so much different. Call any disease the "gay glague", get censored quick. lol

[@nocreativename]

People evolve.

[@lubu523]

​@No Creative Name it actually gave me quick knowledge over whom i should be avoiding to not contract the disease.

[@opaljk4835]

@@II-wx4kvthis is the attitude that amounted to so many straight people getting aids and ignoring it

[@quantumwitcher9376]

Censored? For spreading false information? For peddling a hateful narrative? Bigoted rhetoric?

[@olivesama]

​@@lubu523Who should you be avoiding?

[@lilly243]

Wow 2 weeks after I was born.

[@LMB222]

You're lucky you didn't have to go through it.

[@Youttubi]

@@LMB222 , I was alive. No decade is perfect, but the 80s, for me, is better than today.

[@JenniferHeart-or3tn]

Even when everyone thought there is no cure, I'm still surprised how your medicine cured me DR KANAYO PETERSON. I just pray you stay safe out there everyday because the HIV patients needs you more than ever. Thank you for coming to my aid, you're a great doctor.

[@sharonrigs7999]

I'm sure nothing became of this

[@DaltonDeavin]

" waiting a few weeks, months is not prejudicial to health" I'm sorry, but i disagree doctor. If that particular person who has had antibodies to the HIV virus may have had the disease themselves, which would affect their own health. He/she could also have transmitted it around to other people in the community. In the early days of the HIV virus there was a lack of knowledge amongst the public so I agree with the doctor that the patients needed to be sure of the information for a.proper diagnosis, but this information should have been relayed to them much quicker to stop the initial spread of the disease. Also for the sake of the health industry it gave a bad rapport to other health care institutes to not investigate this matter with the utmost urgency. ❤

[@BrunoVieira-t5m]

Aids Kills right people

[@nicelol5241]

and Reagan did nothing.

[@myranaam8562]

Reagan was suppose to stop druggies from using dirty needles; and homosexuals from doing butt stuff?

[@Evil-Keks]

American Hitler literally.

[@ralex3697]

Absolutely nothing

[@Tornado1994]

@@ralex3697 What COULD he have done? Tell me.

[@Youttubi]

@nicelo5241, that's not true. He did try to help, but he is not a doctor or God.

[@ayanasheree_]

Wow they really used to call it the “Gay Plague” Sheesh

[@thephotoandthestory]

It seems inarticulate and insensitive but We didn't know much about it. The overwhelming majority of cases were in MSM and then IV drug users. HIV/AIDS has always been - in the U.S. at least - primarily a disease of MSM.

[@P1mpMyBr1de]

Rightly so

[@UnkleAce]

Every NEWS network back then.

[@transportservices4767]

Dretiko on KZbin deserves more than praises, because he has saved a lot of souls from sickness and death, thank you Doctor for curing me completely.

[@wamnicho]

People nowadays are too sensitive, so what if they called it the gay plague, it was striking homosexuals mostly and even today in the west 80 percent of new cases are usually homosexuals

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

All of us humans must come together to find a solution to the HIV pandemic because the virus does not want humanity to survive and progress to the quest of humanity to become another civilisation.

[@rowdyelitehater8595]

manmade.

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

@@rowdyelitehater8595 Manmde for what purpose.

[@rowdyelitehater8595]

@@jamesbedukodjograham5508 millions of pounds everyday on AIDS meds. Big pharma.

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@rowdyelitehater8595 no it wasn't.

[@ayakwalker]

@@rowdyelitehater8595 that is so dumb it came from monkeys being smuggled to different lands and the people of those lands ate monkeys not knowing the ones were smuggled in had hiv which is dormant in their body. Those people got hiv thinking those monkeys were like the regular monkeys they originally had on their land. That’s how hiv first infected humans. Those monkeys have ALWAYS had it but it doesn’t affect them like humans.

[@Toni.dZ24]

I fell like transmission from women to men is impossible

[@stevencoardvenice]

Don't tell anyone

[@Toni.dZ24]

@stevencoardvenice Why shouldn't I tell anyone exactly ?

[@reyg.5305]

Fox news sounded so different back in the day...was it always like this?

[@b3108]

The station was only rebranded as a Fox affiliate in October 1986, over a year after Rupert Murdoch bought it in early 1985. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNYW

[@reyg.5305]

@@b3108Thanks, I'm new xD

[@bryanbradley6871]

Wow

[@matsmith5800]

Probably cooked up at Ft Detrick just like COVID19

[@rafaelmillan5800]

Log Cabin Republicans LOVE TRUMP 😅😅

[@drakecarter1780]

How could these doctors be this clueless in 1985?

[@ralphieholland]

They hand delivered medidocs at that time. It took nearly a week to authenticate streo throat.

[@Youttubi]

@drakecarter1780, they are still clueless today. There is still no cure. There is no cure for cancer, covid etc.

[@alexlevinson8629]

The gay journalist portrays himself as more manly than current straight men.

[@Heyokasireniei468sxso]

the best propaganda money can buy

[@ralex3697]

Gay plague really ? A time of pure ignorance. Have we learnt anything ? No

[@user-ee5ve3kv4v]

Back then in the very early days it was genuinely thought of as a gay disease as it was mainly gay men who were being seen, hence why the name changed from GRID to AIDS when they knew more, in the very very early days this was not ignorance

[@RevolutionReborn]

It's fox news what do you expect

[@centillion1684]

0:09

[@ShineBox-jn8mh]

WTF that guy about the bedding and the needle FFS...........Wow, previous healthcare person today he would been laughed out of court. I've taken anabolic steroids and make I sure everything goes in the sharps bin, he would of lost his license these days. Thank good for never cannula and safety needle designs (NHS UK uses them whenever possible and they only cost pennies)

[@ericsamuelson5656]

In the Metromedia era, Ch 5 had so many sexy women reporters & anchors including Nancy Glass, Lynn White, Lonnie Reed, Barbara Laskin, and Ronnie Livia

[@SJ-jd8uh]

Lol gay pluage

[@slapshot68]

If trump were to say that, u would never hear the end of it

[@jaznabooker910]

@@slapshot68because there’s more education than ignorance. They weren’t well educated then.. duh

[@michaelsieger9133]

@@slapshot68 if anyone were to say that in 2022, we’d never hear the end of it.

[@xokhaliah]

@@michaelsieger9133 yeah because its ignorant, anyone can get it

[@myranaam8562]

@@xokhaliahno. Not anyone. It’s mostly promiscuous people that get it

[@neilburlingham8892]

Sounds like the covid thing

[@KevinJohnson-jc9ju]

Monkey pox 2022

[@tsitracommunications2884]

SDIA

[@fungi42o0]

that's gay

[@rsmith7589]

Jesus is Lord Radio. Listen: “HIV AIDS Healed | Prophet Dr. David Owuor | May 31, 2023” on Repent and Come Out of The Great Tribulation. Romans 10: 13 Says, For whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be SAVED!!! AMEN

[@LMB222]

There's no god

[@rsmith7589]

@@LMB222 , "27 God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us" (Acts 17: 27).

[@zan32544]

Thank God my parents didn’t contract it… I wouldNT have been born 😢

[@infernofox294]

Pool's closed

[@billlevins7460]

such a good looking anchor woman. Very feminine and pretty.

[@deborah9245]

If the world had more people like you, it would be a better place. You make a difference Dretiko on KZbin thank you for curing my type 2 herpes!

[@goplease5769]

Respect All but Our American History And my Black History I haven't forgot....You All are wrong for this...Da Baby Lil Wayne and all the Rappers Thanks hope the money worth it

[@julieann4616]

wtf?

[@goplease5769]

Whenever God Gives a Order with you all and y'all keep making excuses...I'm born this way etc(Not Judging) but understand like a alcoholic you can say I'm born a alcoholic then when you get religious say even though I'm Christian etc God understands my heart so imma drink...No because you see the harm of alcoholism and drunk drunk driving and the liver....LikeWISE... You can't keep making excuses giving them power and the hurt everyone and act like it is who should except alcoholism when it clearly kills more than cocaine crack and heroin combined

[@richardstevens8839]

Alcoholism is a sort of disease of despair. A lot of people in America are losing hope people want to escape. They are living paycheck to paycheck and it’s stressful and you have to commit to the daily grind. I think a new bill of rights with a minimum wage and Medicare for all would mitigate some of these diseases of despair

[@lupoopul4039]

Are you... comparing homosexuality to alcoholism? That's like comparing apples to corn

[@LMB222]

There's no god.

[@chrism3495]

​@@lupoopul4039Homosexuality is worse than alcoholism. The average lifespan of a himosexual male in America is about 45.

[@AndrewB221]

Exactly Rump Rangers

[@brunobane]

Aids is 95 to 100 per cent fatal

[@Kai-Malachi]

If left untreated

[@brunobane]

Aids Kill 9 in 10 people

[@DewtbArenatsiz]

Not anymore

[@deborah9245]

If the world had more people like you, it would be a better place. You make a difference Dretiko on KZbin thank you for curing my type 2 herpes!

[@davidmb1595]

What? Herpes type 2 is not curable