WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:04.363 For the public, get over yourselves. 2 00:00:06.630 --> 00:00:07.930 We know we have a disease. 3 00:00:14.220 --> 00:00:16.120 We know that you don't want to get it, 4 00:00:18.060 --> 00:00:18.993 I know I didn't, 5 00:00:26.064 --> 00:00:27.427 but you're ostracism, 6 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:35.830 your net of shame that you cast 7 00:00:41.220 --> 00:00:44.423 forces most of us into silence. 8 00:00:46.970 --> 00:00:49.290 It forces most of us who 9 00:00:51.100 --> 00:00:54.963 think we have it to not get tested. 10 00:01:06.666 --> 00:01:08.333 Make the reality of HIV 11 00:01:12.910 --> 00:01:17.910 the same understood exceptive reality of cancer. 12 00:01:21.530 --> 00:01:24.860 As you're not gonna get cancer from giving someone a hug, 13 00:01:24.860 --> 00:01:27.673 or being their friend, or riding next to the bus. 14 00:01:30.290 --> 00:01:31.913 You're not gonna get HIV either. 15 00:01:38.330 --> 00:01:42.740 I'm not saying make 16 00:01:46.270 --> 00:01:50.800 it socially acceptable that, 17 00:01:50.800 --> 00:01:54.603 oh no big deal doesn't matter if you catch HIV, 18 00:02:02.770 --> 00:02:07.120 because I know a lot of the public 19 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:09.163 isn't afraid of it anymore as well, 20 00:02:11.870 --> 00:02:13.823 because of HIV meds, 21 00:02:15.730 --> 00:02:16.680 because 22 00:02:21.020 --> 00:02:22.863 according to classification, 23 00:02:25.250 --> 00:02:30.250 it's only a chronic or potentially terminal illness, 24 00:02:30.930 --> 00:02:32.423 no long a fatal illness. 25 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:40.393 Get smart, get educated. 26 00:02:42.530 --> 00:02:43.633 Ignorance isn't bliss. 27 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:49.440 The only one that hurts is you 28 00:02:50.690 --> 00:02:52.603 because you're the one it endangers.