Howard Stern "Why do people think it's egotistical of you to say that you've gotten Lady Di, right? You could've gotten her, right? You could've nailed her."

Robin Quivers "Yeah, but could you have sent her to the doctor?"

Donald Trump "Of course, I don't know, maybe that one, that was a tough one."

Robin Quivers "He wouldn't answer it."

Howard Stern "Hey, Lady Di, would you go to the doctor?"

Kate Bohner "I don't think he would have asked her."

Donald Trump "Go back over to my Lexus because I have a new doctor, we wanna give you a little check up."

Howard Stern "Lady Di you would've gone out with. Not that she was not attractive."

Donald Trump "She was actually really beautiful."

Howard Stern "You think so? More beautiful than supermodels?"

Donald Trump "I thought she was supermodel beautiful. I'm telling you, I said this the other day. I said Lady Di had supermodel beauty."

Howard Stern "Really?"

Donald Trump "She had times, you know, it was interesting, she had times when she didn't look great, and sometimes you look better than anybody in the world. But she was a supermodel."

Howard Stern "I'm shocked that you say this. I can't believe it."

Donald Trump "She had the height, she had this, she had magnificent skin. She really had — she was a great beauty."

Howard Stern "And did you meet her?"

Donald Trump "She wrote me a letter."

Howard Stern "Oh, she wrote you a letter, go ahead."

Donald Trump "About a couple of months before she died, thanking me because I did a favor for something."

Howard Stern "What did you do?"

Donald Trump "Like a schmuck, I went back to work. I did — I just —"

Howard Stern "What was the favor that you did for her?"

Donald Trump "I just did her a favor. She asked me to do something, I did it, and she wrote me a really nice letter."

Howard Stern "What was the favor?"

Donald Trump "I can't tell you."

Howard Stern "Yes, you can. Please, please what was it?"

Donald Trump "It's a personal thing."

Howard Stern "Share your privates? What are you a doctor? Come on, tell me what you did, please."

Donald Trump "I did something, and then I sent her some flowers."

Howard Stern "What did you do for her?"

Donald Trump "I can't tell you."

Howard Stern "Yes, you can. Come on."

Donald Trump "But she really thanked me for the flowers more than the favor."

Howard Stern "What do you think he did for her?"

Donald Trump "I have no clue."

Howard Stern "Ever pleasured yourself to her."

Donald Trump "No, never."

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https://www.foxnews.com/health/health-care-services-south-hiv-coronavirus-pandemic

https://www.poz.com/article/national-hivaids-aging-awareness-day-2020

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/09/14/pandemic-vs-pandemic-covid-19-hampers-fight-against-hiv/

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/covid-19-hampering-fight-against-hiv/

https://twitter.com/ChicagoCAPS19/status/1306971394627055618

Contrasting the Perceived Severity of COVID-19 and HIV Infection in an Online Survey of Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men During the U.S. COVID-19 Epidemic

Am J Mens Health. 2020 Sep-Oct;14(5):1557988320957545. doi: 10.1177/1557988320957545.

ABSTRACT

While there is evidence of variations in the risk perceptions of COVID-19 and that they are linked to both engagement in health-protective behaviors and poor mental health outcomes, there has been a lack of attention to how individuals perceive the risk of COVID-19 relative to other infectious diseases. This paper examines the relative perceptions of the severity of COVID-19 and HIV among a sample of U.S. gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSMs). The “Love and Sex in the Time of COVID-19” survey was conducted online from April 2020 to May 2020. GBMSMs were recruited through paid banner advertisements featured on social networking platforms, resulting in a sample size of 696. The analysis considers differences in responses to two scales: the Perceived Severity of HIV Infection and the Perceived Severity of COVID-19 Infection. Participants perceived greater seriousness for HIV infection (mean 46.67, range 17-65) than for COVID-19 infection (mean 38.81, range 13-62). Some items reflecting more proximal impacts of infection (anxiety, loss of sleep, and impact on employment) were similar for HIV and COVID-19. Those aged over 25 and those who perceived higher prevalence of COVID-19 in the United States or their state were more likely to report COVID-19 as more severe than HIV. There is a need to develop nuanced public health messages for GBMSMs that convey the ongoing simultaneous health threats of both HIV and COVID-19.

PMID:32938298 | DOI:10.1177/1557988320957545

https://www.docwirenews.com/abstracts/journal-abstracts/contrasting-the-perceived-severity-of-covid-19-and-hiv-infection-in-an-online-survey-of-gay-bisexual-and-other-men-who-have-sex-with-men-during-the-u-s-covid-19-epidemic/

Was Taylor Swift Singing About HIV Criminalization?

Theodore Kerr - January 06 2016 7:11 AM EST

In her “realest interview” ever, Taylor Swift told GQ that her song “Bad Blood” is not about Katy Perry. It’s about an ex. But to me, her lyrics rang different bells than they would have to many of her young fans. In “Bad Blood,” I couldn’t help but hear “HIV criminalization.”

The ubiquitous song is from Swift’s latest album, 1989, which is also the year she was born. If she had released it in 1989, at a height of the ongoing AIDS crisis, many people’s first thoughts would have been like mine. “We use to have mad love / Now we have bad blood” could have stood in for the thinking many people had at the dawn of the virus in the U.S. HIV was understood to be God’s wrath on a country that lost its morals in the 1960s and 1970s with free love, growing acceptance of same-sex desire, and the evolving role of women.

During that time, in TV and movies, blood was used to express a fear of contagion; think of vials of blood on the nightly news, and Joseph Mazzello in the 1995 movie The Cure screaming “My blood is poison!” Universal precautions were introduced in medical and law enforcement situations to reduce contact with blood regardless of the actual risk of transmission, and the blood supply was more intensely screened; gay men and others were barred from donating.

The idea of bad blood was everywhere, and rather than focusing on what people living with HIV needed to be healthy and manage their virus, resources were spent on containing people living with HIV. Quarantine was up for debate. The idea of tattooing HIV-positive people was written about in The New York Times. And until the current administration repealed it, there was a ban on HIV-positive people traveling into the U.S.

Starting in the mid-1980s, the criminal justice system became heavily involved, enlisting citizens to round up people living with “bad blood.”

As it stands now, 34 states across the U.S. have specific laws criminalizing people with HIV, mostly focused on disclosure, making it so a person living with the virus is held solely responsible for not only disclosing the risks but also being able to prove the disclosure in a court of law. As writer Sarah Schulman stated, “HIV criminalization is denunciation-based: The state encourages people who are HIV negative to bring charges against HIV-positive sexual partners who they say have not disclosed their status.”

HIV criminalization laws and how they are applied do not consider barriers to disclosure like power imbalance within sexual relationships, or the difficulty of proving disclosure. Are you able to prove that what you said was understood by your partner? When was the last time you had to?

These laws also don’t reflect how HIV is transmitted, nor are they informed by medical advancements, such as PrEP and the fact that HIV-positive people with undetectable viral loads pose an immeasurably low risk for transmitting the virus. People living with HIV have been arrested, been convicted, and have served — or are serving — prison time for instances when no transmission occurred and no risk was posed.

It is important to note that criminalization hurts prevention efforts by increasing stigma around HIV, making it less appealing for people to know their HIV status. A popular refrain among communities deemed to be most at risk is “Take the test and risk arrest.” Folks who fear they may be living with HIV would rather suffer, managing the virus alone, rather than risk having the criminal justice system involved in their lives. In states without specific HIV criminalization laws, people living with the virus can be charged with existing laws such as assault with a deadly weapon, with their body considered the weapon.

The hurt, shame, fear, and confusion of the recently exposed and possibly infected is used by authorities to bring charges against others knowingly living with the virus. For me, “Bad Blood” mirrors the flawed logic at the heart of HIV criminalization: public revenge stemming from intimate pain. When it comes to fears of HIV transmission, we need to move away from blame and the law, and toward mutuality and community.

Canada-born Theodore Kerr is a Brooklyn-based writer and organizer whose work focuses on HIV/AIDS.

https://www.advocate.com/current-issue/2016/1/06/was-taylor-swift-singing-about-hiv-criminalization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Red

https://www.glamour.com/story/taylor-swift-sent-folklore-cardigans-to-a-ton-of-celebrities#main-content