Well that was true back in that time. It’s not true now. A lot of us who aren’t in health care maybe don’t know that it’s changed. I didn’t until a few years back when a friend with HIV clarified for me. Managing the “cocktail” in the early days was actually a big deal b/c different drugs had different side effects,…

This is a busy thread with multiple conversations. I’m sure it’s not your first day on the Internet. Comments in public forum do not need solicitation. 

Regarding your interpretation of what the OP said, I can see what you were thinking now that you’ve clarified. I did not interpret the OP’s statement that way because…

Yea as soon as I typed that, I thought to myself, I don’t actually know much about Crohn’s Disease. I just grabbed that word because I have a friend that has it, but she does not take daily medication. Beyond that, I don’t really know what it is about. Another person here pointed out diabetes as another example of a…

Oh Jesus can you see my eyes rolling? We are having a discussion online. Nobody is demanding shit from anyone else, C’mon. You are way overthinking all of this and tone policing at that. This was a conversation between family members, both of whom affected by HIV with results separated by generations. It’s totally…

Yeah but I don’t think it’s just young people. I was talking to a buddy about prep recently and he told me that he basically can’t get guys to wear condoms anymore, that they say that since they are on prep, no reason. He’s in his 40s, and lots of people he dates are HIV+ (though undetectable loads) so it’s not like…

Thanks for those stats. That gives perspective. I guess I was thinking about how HPV and herpes are basically the norm now and that HIV could become likely that.

Yes that’s a good analogy. I’m curious about how valid a threat it is that we could have some sort of pharmaceutical crisis? Seems like there are a lot of people totally dependent on taking meds every day. I know this is not a new thing nor a new thought, but this article has gotten me thinking about how normal it…

I love that this happened. However, revisiting goatse and comparing my shoulder-shrug response now to the existential horror I felt when I first viewed it in the early days of online makes me realize how the internet has basically numbed my soul and left me jaded to everything under the sun. This is why we have Trump,…

I’m not sure what you are arguing about. I’m responding to your statement here:

Um, what? What museums throughout the world have not had an issue with people bumping into their displays? That’s just not true. Yes, every museum has this problem- it’s one part of the entire profession behind managing and displaying exhibitions. The reason we don’t see exhibits collapsing all the time like this…

This is a conversation between relatives, both of whom are facing a similar situation. For the elder, it literally resulted in the deaths of people he loved and was a traumatic fear that he lived with (like most of us that age). For the younger, it’s something he needs to take a pill for. I don’t know why you think…

That’s almost funny. If the museum had been a victim of vandalism, yes. But it’s not. The museum was really incompetent at doing the thing the museum was supposed to do, and as a result, a preventable and predictable shitty thing happened to it. So it’s not victim blaming here, it’s owning responsibility.

Yes absolutely, but the point is that anyone who has any competence in planning these things is aware that a tiny percentage of the public is going to break the rules and get too close and/or touch the artifacts. And therefore galleries usually arrange things in a way that minimizes either contact (like having…

Maybe the art is the toppling. Hmm...

Really? Because I’ve almost never been to a gallery that didn’t have security (meaning, employees, not cops) walking around who would tell a patron not to get too close and not to take pics, etc. Unless it was a very cheap and amateur gallery (which this obviously is). And aside from that, the walking up and down the…

Plus it’s just an ugly display.

I have to admit that I just think that’s hilarious. Yes my bias about the ‘art’ is influencing my opinion here, but also that exhibit looks so cheap. The blocks are just sitting there, so easily toppled? Not weighted down or anything? The ‘art’ just sitting on top of it? And public allowed to go up and down the aisles…

Yeah but even now it seems different to me than other chronic conditions. I mean, if I stop taking medication for arthritis or Crohns Disease, while there are horrible things that could happen, I’m not going to be dead in a few years. (BTW I don’t have any of those things.)

Where did he say he was lecturing people? Like most of us who witnessed people dropping dead of AIDS, he’s trying to work out how one generation’s trauma can be another’s manageable condition. This is normal human behavior, and you shouldn’t be lecturing people who lived through the plague years about their confusion.

Well, the difference was that the post-polio vaccine generation couldn’t get polio. These kids can get HIV. The medication prevents them from getting sick, but that means your ability to stay alive is literally dependent on taking medication everyday. That would terrify me, especially given today’s health care crisis…