To see your people die in front of you, day by day, feels like a stab to the chest every minute you remember they no longer exist with you on this earth. your day one, now reset to day zero. To know that there is something that could be done by the government to help, yet the government refuses, is something that I will never understand. How dare you say that it would be too expensive to implement standards, research, and rules? How are we putting price tags on millions of lives? During the AIDs epidemic, all that was needed to stop people from dying was research. The simple step of researching this illness could have saved thousands from one community and thousands of others. So I ask, why didn’t we just do our due diligence? It was because they wanted this mass sweeping, they decided that the majority of lives being lost were lives they were willing to spare. In this process, not only did we lose the sons and daughters of the LGBTQ community, but we also lost young children and an outstanding number of heterosexual women. EVERYONE suffered from the negligence of the government. This isn’t the first instance of attempts at clearing a community. Let us not forget that the drug distribution epidemic in black neighborhoods was created by the government itself. They wanted the community to break itself down from the inside out. They placed boxes of narcotics all over the streets, knowing that people would fall into their traps because addiction is a strong drug, one that feels impossible to break. watching my people drop dead from overdosing, my family become estranged, and statistics skyrocket felt like a stab to the chest. It wasn’t until the narcotics made their way to prosperous neighborhoods that they stopped placing these traps. This shows once again how hurting one community hurts EVERYONE. The number of times the government has intentionally watched a community die is something that should make everyone’s stomach turn. We cannot sit idle and watch as this occurs. Every time we sit back and watch as communities die, whether it be at the hands of one person or an entire branch, we are allowing ourselves to be stabbed in the chest. an injustice to one is an injustice to EVERYONE. As someone who is a part of both communities talked of above, let me ask you something: Did you just stab me?
Unruly Bodies 
This piece is extremely well-written and a beautifully poignant
point about how America is continually hurting its very foundation. Every time we target and vilify community, who has to clean up the mess? The affected community. It happens over and over again in a cyclical
fashion. Thank you for sharing this piece with us.
It really shocked me how serious and tramatic the AIDS epidemic was I had heard of AIDS before didn’t know much background info about besides the negative connotation that surrounds the word so reading about it and watching the documentary I got to see and read just how bad it actually was and how the government sat back and did nothing. And it seems to be an ongoing theme as if other lives are more worthy than others it actually makes me sick. But your post is the exact reason why I want to look more into the AIDS epidemic and the ACT UP movement so that I can grasp a better understanding.
The picture you choose I think is powerful and right choice, it shows how media metapelite the image of what truly going on. The true image of what really going on is not shown to the general public.
I love the way you start this. Your day one turning into your day zero i a very powerful statement. This almost goes into how the world is because there’s so many cases where someone friend, lover, mom, dad, son, daughter has died at the hands of there being another solution or outside help that couldve prevented the whole thing.
I really like the impactful message of this post. It’s structured very well and I love the picture you chose for it. It just goes to show how connected everyone and everything in our society is, no matter how much the elites or upper class try to distance themselves from the people below.