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Fearless

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1. I would point out that the diseases mentioned are all vastly different...

Reply to William769 (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2011, 01:34 AM

Dec 2011

Other than pure body count of course.

Percentwise the Black Plague wiped out 1/3 of all of Europe for instance... that's like HIV wiping out 100 MILLION Americans or 3 BILLION worldwide. To compare the two in effect is slightly inaccurate. It is even more so for the Spanish Flu.

Additionally, the Plague was caused by an (at the time) unknown source-- it turns out to be a sanitation problem and rats and such carrying fleas with the plague, but I digress-- and HIV is well known and completely preventable!

Just my two cents from a gay man with a history BA.

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