David Joseph Craig discusses how society marginalized plague victims through stigma and abandonment. Treatment cost $10,000 a year. The real violence wasn't just the disease itself, but rendering people irrelevant and telling them not to exist in public life.
And as the plague was growing, because it was still a marginalized, affected illness, the only when you were able to get drugs, insurance wouldn't cover it. So it was costing $10,000 a year just to maintain some sort of semblance of health. And so people were just dying. And that's why they were calling it a plague, was because, like, they people were just letting other people die of. Of. Of what I can only relate to as leprosy, like, skin lesions were killing the inside of your body and allowing people to die.
There's probably nothing you can do to a human more than make them irrelevant. It's inhuman.
It's. It's so inhuman. And then the answer just being change your actions. Don't have sex. Yeah, like that was that.
Don't be. Don't be you.
Don't be you.
