Well, all power to him! Seriously, many people in the USA and Europe live very happy healthy and productive lives many many years after their diagnosis these days.
I can’t say the same for all countries in the world, but in the first world, the richest nations can take care of people with this illness. Thanks, mostly to science, which isn’t always coming up with instantaneous cures that are affordable for everyone in the world, but the alternative to science, pseudo-science, fake cures, faith in a deity, etc., that won’t help a patient with AIDS.
Even if he doesn’t win a seat in Congress, he’s doing a big service to Floridians and America by running openly as both a victim and survivor of this illness.
Well said! I hope this story goes viral (pardon the intended pun) and sweeps him into that seat.
I think it will be picked up all over. FIRST openly candid candidate for office talking about his illness as if it were something to continue live with (and it is!)
Seriously, I know 3 men with AIDS whom I have known since the 1980’s, or before. They are still healthy and happy older men, living out their lives with dignity and respect, just as I know 3 or 4 people with diabetes doing the same. At the beginning of the 1900’s, people with diabetes had only the hope of severely restricted diets to keep them alive, no insulin. In the 1980’s we had no effective “treatments” for AIDS, but now we do for people lucky enough to live where they can get treatment, (not yet an ideal worldwide solution, but a start).Both are illnesses, but they are part of the challenge we in the 21st century can face with courage and knowledge and understanding.
Be strong…
One can only admire such honesty.
Brave man. I know a young man who came from a very conservative family, and when he was diagnosed his mom went on about the consequence of his ‘lifestyle choice’. Very sad, he found a community and friends that were supportive. I am so proud of him, and his strength. The same for this gentleman. Bravo… and my best wishes for his future. Hope he wins.
Moronic ranting.
The most important point is that AIDS is NOT an automatic death sentence, if you can afford the drugs to keep you alive.
Unlike the 1980’s.
I can’t wait until you get AIDS