Well, as the news developed, the first obvious step would have been to ban males having sex with other males .................................
.........but wait a minute .... many governments dd that already ....
True, there wasn't social media around then, but the whole HIV thing rolled out more slowly. At first, it was just a disease among homosexual men - everybody else was unaffected; then a spread to women and heterosexual males was identified as needle sharing - again, no threat to everybody else...
HIV didn't close down whole industries*, cost thousands of people their jobs*, keep millions more confined to their homes, make us wear face masks, not gather in groups or go to football matches, or keep grandparents and grandchildren separated. Nor was it such a huge financial disaster to the...
Flu jabs are brilliant. I've had (real) flu a few times in y life - thankfully not many - but I used to get those bad cold/chill/man flu type things (you know, couple of days in bed feeling rotten, lots of Lemsip, and that's it) a lot - 3 or 4 times a year, probably.
Twenty or so years ago my GP...
Yes, I'd have the vaccine in a heartbeat - and so should all those selfish people that think as they're healthy and it won't affect them much they won't have the vaccine themselves and it's fine to go around spreading the disease to more vulnerable people than themselves (see also party goers...