Op-Ed: Seven ways the AIDS epidemic prepared me for COVID-19 (via latimesopinion)
In our “Dispatches From the Pandemic” series, we bring you personal stories from people whose lives have been drastically altered by COVID-19.The government was disorganized and slow to step up in the 1980s, as it is now. Young men died alone, suffering from not only disease but stigma.
Today we see bodies zipped into body bags, even buried in mass graves. We have to find ways to mourn and honor them. Last month, I took part in a Zoom-based online ritual inspired by the Jewish, or memorial, candle. On April 9, more than 300 people held lighted candles up to their screens while names of the dead, the ill and the at-risk scrolled by in a chat box.
Our current stay-at-home retreat could lead to a rethinking of elective and ecologically damaging air travel. We have been given a chance to confront our manufactured busyness. We are discovering that individual human actions, practiced voluntarily on a mass scale out of concern for people we don’t know, can slow climate change and redesign our cities without government action.The AIDS crisis created street saints.
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