I’m not trying to diminish HIV/AIDS — I lost both my parents to it — but COVID-19 is nothing like that.

AIDS was devastating to people who were infected, their families, the gay community, and hemophiliacs, but it didn’t affect society at as whole much at all.

As I write, as many as billion and a half people have been sent home to avoid the spread of contagion, and the world GDP for this year is supposed to drop by 20%. Almost all humans on Earth will be directly affected.

If we assume that the fatality rate is actually Germany’s 0.6% — the lowest reported, but then Germany has also been testing more than any other country — and that 60% of humans get this, we should be expecting about 30 million deaths in the first year — that’s significantly more than all AIDS deaths from 1981 (when the AIDS epidemic started) through 2000.

More, it threatens everyone. AIDS devastated me personally, but I never worried about getting it myself. Once the blood supply was cleaned up, then old people, young people, people in long-term relationships, or the celibate had nothing to worry about. But now I’m an older guy with asthma, and COVID-19 is a very real threat to me.

In conclusion, I piss on Reagan’s grave, and would like to remind people that without the incompetent and criminal Reagan administration, there would be no Trump.

Thanks for reading!