--- James Heartfield <Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> wrote: >
>
> Out of political rather than epidemiological
> reasoning, health
> authorities persistently sought to persuade the
> public that the threat
> of AIDS was uniform, and downplay the evidence that
> some groups of
> people were more at risk than others.
The epidemiology of AIDS in Africa (the only region in which it reached epidemic status) suggested, at the time, that the threat was in fact reasonably uniform.
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===== “It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances and to profess a conventional respectability which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men” -- JM Keynes
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