Webster said:Goodness.
I thought this was a discussion.
There's definitely no reason to get pissed off.
I lived through the first days of the epidemic when Ronald Reagan's government was making plans to put Aids sufferers in internment camps.
I saw emaciated young men on the streets every day. I also saw compassionate people who nursed them and fed them and cared for them when some people were afraid to be in the same room with them.
Through the many years of this terrible epidemic, I have seen incredible advances in treatment and care so that being HIV+ is no longer a death sentence. Many people who went out on disability have gone back to work and they are leading completely normal lives.
During those years, gay men learned how to have great sex without becoming infected.
I choose to be informed about the actual risks of transmission, I use common sense, and I live my life without paranoia.
There is a far greater chance of me becoming injured or dying in a car accident than from contracting HIV.
I am happy to give to you the benefit of the doubt by assuming that you misunderstood my comments.
I wish you well.
I'm sooo glad you remembered about the Reagan internment camp thing, too---I mention it to people, and they look at me like I was crazy, inlcuding people my age and older, gay, who should have remembered this!! Now I don;t feel like I have lost my mind or something.:biggrin1: