It's well documented from the time of the Black Death in thirteen forty eight that with almost every epidemic, people respond to the epidemic in exactly the same predictable ways. The first thing they do is they deny that it's even occurred.
Does anybody that White House know about this epidemic?
Now, I don't know anything about any And then they want to blame someone for having caused it.
Almost sexual promise, gourity is a violation of God's laws. We pay the price when we violate the laws of God.
They then start losing faith in institutions. You know, the institutions that were supposed to protect them are now a suspect.
You can't trust the medical establishment, you can't trust the media, and you certainly can't trust the government.
And at the same time there's inappropriate legislation.
You had the preachers who were calling for quarantine and putting people in camps and tattooing their HIV status on their bodies.
This has occurred in epidemic after epidemic after epidemy, and of course we saw it in spades.
With the aids up at him.
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