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Reagan’s first drug czar, Carlton Turner, was quoted in Time magazine as saying, “Marijuana leads to homosexuality, the breakdown of the immune system, and therefore to AIDS.” He also said marijuana use was directly linked to “the present young-adult generation’s involvement in anti-military, anti-nuclear power, anti-big business, anti-authority

There may come a time when insurance companies refuse to insure gay men or try to eliminate AIDS diseases from insurance protection, Westmoreland warned. “To some extent the insurance industry exists to discriminate among risks and to pool or avoid them,” he wrote. For this, other gays denounced Westmoreland as an alarmist.

Among the other proponents of gain-of-function research was one Anthony Fauci. In December 2011, he was the lead author—along with Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the NIH—of a Washington Post opinion piece headlined “A Flu Virus Risk Worth Taking.”

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she noticed when the CDC made a curious pivot, from downplaying the virus to behaving as if it never could have been contained. For the better part of two months, they’d repeated the same mantra: the risk to Americans is low, and there is no evidence of transmission inside the country. That fiction ended on February 25, when the CDC’s lab in

police departments across the country started agitating for face masks, like those in San Francisco.

With so much ignorance coming from a left-leaning public intellectual in Washington, DC, in 1977, what could gays of Dade County expect from their run-of-the-mill Florida neighbors?