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Epidemic
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the AIDS pandemic is a disaster with few parallels, because it is so easy to make it invisible or to pretend it is something else. an earthquake, flood or famine is dramatically visible and politically salient, because it affects entire communities in a spectacular fashion, including their leaders and spokespeople. AIDS is more like climate change, an incremental process manifest in a quickening drumbeat of ‘normal’ events.
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― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
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in the higher stages of denial, ever-more-complex mechanisms are developed for explaining the unacceptable while maintaining a façade of social and moral normality.
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― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
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