I feel like I remember a disease circulating in the 1980s where this blame game was VERY prevalent...
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It was, and a lot of people got undeserved hate and discrimination for different reasons (there was widespread ignorance of how HIV was transmitted and also the misconception that it was a disease only "degenerates" could catch).
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Hmm, I think we went down that path fairly recently (which, coincidentally, gave rise to human rights/anti-discrimination laws making health status a protected ground)pic.twitter.com/nsYTK4FRu0
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Martin, please read something, anything, about the history of infectious disease *before* you press Send? Potential carriers have very frequently been blamed, attacked, locked up, and even killed. Things are much better now.
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I remember how was my first HIV patient was treated in early 90s.
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Really professor??? What about HIV? other STDs? I was hoping a prof. Would be more careful with his words...
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The plague, leprosy, the 1920 flu, aids, Typhoid Mary, many STDs.
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TB! There are current laws on the books that allow us to forceably isolate people if they're nonadherent to treatment.
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I keep searching for "Why"?What happened in 2020 that so changed how we look at the world of viruses, bacteria when we have so much in our drug, treatment arsenal and when we know so much in genetics, immunology, virology-sarscov2 is bad for some, but not lethal for everyone
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