Normalize reminding people that HIV starts as a cold, that "a cold" is a collection of symptoms (not a disease unto itself), and that judging a virus by its primary, immunogenic symptoms (rather than suspending all judgment until we know everything abo...
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Normalize reminding people that HIV starts as a cold, that "a cold" is a collection of symptoms (not a disease unto itself), and that judging a virus by its primary, immunogenic symptoms (rather than suspending all judgment until we know everything about what kinds of damage it can do or how it might persist within the body and cause chronic outcomes *that might not show up for years*) is how to make sure #PublicHealth as a field of human concern never evolves past calling over 200 distinct viruses "the common cold" and then saying things like "complications: usually none, but occasionally sepsis can occur"
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