Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without gloves in a time where people considered it as a taboo, 1991

    by Francucinno

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    1. There’s nothing to be proud of. It was a lethal disease. It’s like that bellend John Gummer giving his daugther a beef burger when mad cow disease was rife just to get some political points.

    2. This was not a fear of any rational person in 1991, or really even 1985. Even before that all scientific evidence showed zero risk even from french kissing a person with HIV.

    3. Society treated them so terribly back then. I am ashamed of how people acted towards AIDS patients. I bet Diana spoke to actual doctors and learned facts before listening to the rumors. Good on her!

    4. About that time I shook hands with a friend of my then fiancée’s family who had AIDS and died a couple years later.

      I’m still around

    5. I’m probably going to get reamed for this,

      Diana was an absolute class act, someone that people should have looked up to, kind, generous.

      I need to state that I do not condone how AIDS patients were treated. It was awful.

      But.. Am I wrong to think that people who wanted to keep their distance weren’t entirely wrong?

      Was it wrong to assume that AIDS may have possibly been contagious at the time of little knowledge of the disease and that precautions still should have been taken?

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