Yolanda's New Blog

I skimmed over her new blog today (https://yolandasblog613.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/episode-613/) and at one point she compares the struggle of lyme disease to that of the hiv epidemic and the stigmatization of the gay community.

"When AIDS first appeared three decades ago, it was first seen as a “gay disease.” That judgement at that time could not have been further from the truth…. Tens of thousands of gay men, some of them very close to me were dying and it seemed like no one cared. People who contracted HIV/AIDS were doubted and shunned by their own families, turned away from medical providers and treated like they weren’t even human. Today, thanks to the persistent hard work ofElton and activists, HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence. Instead, it is a manageable chronic illness. We know how to prevent it. We know how to treat it. And someday, we may learn how to cure it. There is a dangerous lack of compassion for those living with and dying of chronic Lyme disease……. "

It's so mind boggling that she thinks people not being compassionate to her is the same as what gay people during the AIDS epidemic had to go through.