AIDS wasn’t taken as seriously as COVID because it killed gays

ACT UP demonstrators chanting at AIDS rally, New York City. (Photo: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

I was seven when I watched my uncle dying in St Lukes-Roosevelt hospital in New York City.

Simon was only 36 and it was the 90s. I remember asking someone what a lump on his neck was. It was just his…