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Books That Changed My Life David Joseph Craig & How To Survive A Plague PT. 1

14 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube interview between Chris Collins and David Joseph Craig about books that changed Craig's life, centering on the influence of How to Survive a Plague. The excerpt includes personal recollections of school-era attitudes toward a 'vibrant, queer kid,' reflections on the AIDS epidemic (Craig cites a large death toll: 'We lost, I think, 4 million people'), and critique of stigma, religion, and political responses. The host asks how the book/documentary How to Survive a Plague affected Craig personally.

This time on books. That changed my life.
There was one very, very vibrant, queer kid in our school, and I hated him.
There's a whole group of people that were very talented and influential that were.
Wiped out in the midst of it. We lost, I think, 4 million people.
There's probably nothing you can do to a human more than make them irrelevant.
And then the answer just being, change your actions. Don't have sex.
Don't be you.
Don't be you.
That's the thing about religion and politics and all that, is that we forget that we're more the same than we are different.
I don't know how any human being could see a whole group of people with lesions on their body begging for help.
It's inhuman.
It's so inhuman.
So big question. How did how to survive a plague change your life?