OT: Where where you when Magic announced he caught teh AIDS?

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    I was in my car on Tualatin-Sherwood Road when I heard it on the radio. My first thought was how long does he has to have to live? Who could have imagined he'd be alive & healthy in 2011? You could make an argument that his example changed the complexion of how Americans look at the disease. Before Magic, it was a death sentence. There was no cure, and there were no case studies of people who lived long & healthy lives with HIV. Even people with big money (Rock Hudson) couldn't buy treatment to prolong their lives. HIV/AIDS is less scary now in the eyes of most people. People see a happy & healthy Magic, and they assume that there are drugs out there that can help you live a semi-normal life with HIV.




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    Magic was likely in great physical condition compared to most and Rock Hudson. He may have had a lot more money than Hudson, too.
     
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    So what's Magic's recipe for living so long and not contracting AIDS? Was it that he was in great shape? Caught early? Aggressive retroviral medicinal/drug treatment?

    I mean, prevalence on the African continent is 10x rest of world, and people are dying in droves. Is it just a matter of getting some drugs together to help people out, or is Magic just a freak of nature with being able to live with it for 20 years?
     
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    I think the drugs they have now can control HIV and there may be remission or cure once in a while.

    I bet magic got early access to the drugs with the best hope. Due to his health, and ability to pay. The drugs were really expensive at one point, but I think they're like $1 a day these days.

    They're just dirt poor in Africa.
     
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    I don't actually remember exactly where I was, but I do remember talking that night with my father. I was in high school, and he is a scientist.

    We had a long discussion about what was actually known and what was unknown, and what the myths were regarding HIV and AIDS. The next day at school, I remember trying to fill in everyone else on the truth, without having a solid enough scientific background to really explain everything. I still thought he would likely be dead within a few years, but I understood disease transmission and how the disease progressed. I think it's interesting, everyone seems to say that we did not know how it was spread or how it progressed back then, but people knew, it was just not part of everyday knowledge.
     
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    Aids propaganda, the headline every day in the 80s, was part of the destruction of the sexual revolution. Magic proved that the paranoia it caused was false.
     
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    I was in a small grocery store on Lungo Africa Street in Florence Italy. Though my Italian lacked, the headline on the newspaper combining MAGIC JOHNSON & AIDS with his picture bitching about a call/looking distraught underneath translated the gist. Less then a month later Freddie Mercury died

    horrible desease...

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    my understanding is that he's on the right drugs to keep it suppressed, but I'm hoping someone with true insight to this will answer

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