2020 has really been a trip for a person like me, living with HIV. So much STD stigma persists and turns out you folks won’t even keep a mask on during an airborne pandemic or stop having parties.

You out here breathing raw? Should you be locked up? Should you even be allowed to breathe?

That’s how many of you have sounded discussing people living with HIV. Now you want compassion for your inability to alter your lifestyle, as COVID has killed 200k here over 7 months.

Suddenly you see how a virus doesn’t make any moral judgments. Suddenly you wonder how this world pushes forward without mourning. Suddenly you see that this government will let thousands upon thousands of people perish and blame the dead.

Those of us with HIV welcome you.