Barb’s Burblings

There was a really interesting article in the Post the other day about the Whitman-Walker Clinic, an AIDS clinic in DC that’s been open for over 20 years. Of course I’ve heard about the early days of the AIDS epidemic and vaguely remember how scary a disease it was (not that it’s a laughing matter now), but I also remember watching the tv movie about Ryan White in health in middle school–which would’ve been around 1990. So reading about things like office raids to get the names of people who are HIV positive, funeral homes that wouldn’t handle AIDS deaths, that even doctors wouldn’t treat people who were HIV positive…it’s nuts. Even after watching And the Band Played On and knowing about the history…it just really struck me. It’s hard to believe this was all in my lifetime, you know?