it’s four years from Covid being declared a pandemic by WHO, so a good time for a bit of pandemic-related writing. Some time ago back, I managed to finish Randy Shilts' And The Band Played On. In case you don’t know this book, it's about the early phases of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, starting from late 70s and ending in 1985 (the book was published in 1987, with Shilts himself learning that he had HIV only after finishing the book, and dying some years after).
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Notes on "And the Band Played On", AIDS and…
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it’s four years from Covid being declared a pandemic by WHO, so a good time for a bit of pandemic-related writing. Some time ago back, I managed to finish Randy Shilts' And The Band Played On. In case you don’t know this book, it's about the early phases of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, starting from late 70s and ending in 1985 (the book was published in 1987, with Shilts himself learning that he had HIV only after finishing the book, and dying some years after).