Michelle420
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I was only around 10 in the 80's and my mother was a nurse. Once she got the info from CDC on transmission she wasnt to0 worried. She had told us not to touch anyone else's blood or dirty needles if we found them even before AIDS was known about, so this didnt really change anything except her reminding us of it.
I grew up in NYC so I was near a large gay community, and it did seem they were more affected. Drug user deaths really didnt make the news.
In high school and College it was like any other STD, just at the time more deadly.
The problem now as I see it is people think the current drug treatment is a permanent state of affairs, and all the pushes to limit risky behavior have gone by the wayside. I loathe the day the damn bug starts changing before we get some type of vaccine.
One of the things you mention I have noticed to.
Since we have made some advancement in medicine it's as if the younger generation who grew up with aids seems to think it's a cure and I notice a more carefree attitude in lifestyle then when it first came out.
That is very very dangerous, because it ignores the fact that bugs can evolve to get around treatments.
Sure.
It's just an observation I've noticed generationally speaking in the aids era.