Status Updates From Punishing Disease: HIV and ...

"CDC estimates this risk to be less than 1 in 1,000 on average—not taking into account the HIV-positive partner’s viral load. [17] of [25] (68 [%]) health officials rated the risk at least a factor of 10 greater: two rated it at 100 [%]; six rated it at 1 in 10; and [9] rated it at 1 in 100."

bro, I'm losing hope in this world daily,, who is training these "health officials"??

"[...] judges and prosecutors translate HIV from the language of medicine (risk, treatment) to the language of the law (harm, punishment). Judges and prosecutors conduct this translation through the language they use to discuss and interpret the cases. HIV is not a virus or a chronic disease, but a 'deadly weapon.' Defendants are not merely people living with HIV; they are potential killers."

idk how it's legal to hear a case where there's an alleged health violation and there are no medical experts testifying like,,, why did they let these women get away with claiming they might show up hiv positive after 10 years??? this is insanity, these judges should be fired

"We cannot know what would have happened if more cases of Ebola had been brought to American shores, or what will happen when the next infectious disease becomes epidemic in the United States."
this did not age well, America

homeless people getting sick because of the difficult living situations:
USA: "I often yell at homeless people: 'Hey, how's that homelessness working out for you? Give not being homeless a try!'"

i love learning but the way academic texts are generally structured annoys me to no end. why do we have to tell the audience what each chapter is going to include in the introduction?? why can't we just start the chapter and y'all just read and see for yourself