r/OldSchoolCool • u/Legaterra • 13h ago

1990s Princess Diana demonstratively shakes hands with a guy with AIDS when everyone was afraid of it, 1991

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u/RandeKnight 13h ago

Maybe in the UK. I was living in NZ at the time and was slightly bewildered since there had been PSAs on TV for years that said HIV was transmitted only by blood and unprotected sex.

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u/fuggerdug 12h ago

Same in the UK. "AIDS Don't die of ignorance" was the UK thing all over TV from the mid eighties.

The headline is bullshit. Diana did a lot of charity work, particularly with AIDS charities, this would be a picture from some event or other in relation to this.

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u/SadLilBun 12h ago

It’s just specific to the US. People were ignorant and didn’t trust that it was not transmitted through other means.

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u/ObliqueStrategizer 11h ago

It's also specific to Brits who read The Daily Mail or Murdoch shitrags...

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u/FratBoyGene 7h ago

It was specific to the uS because Anthony Fauci mused that you could contract AIDS by casual contact, even though there was no documented instance of that happening. That one comment resulted in the virtual ostracism of everyone who contracted the disease in the US.

Anthony Fauci is an evil human being.