{"id":6763,"date":"2020-03-30T00:16:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2020-03-30T00:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:16:30","slug":"coronavirus-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/03\/30\/coronavirus-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#038; HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the new normal.&nbsp; Everyone is staying home, and <strong>Billy<\/strong>\u2019s in a sling 24\/7 \u2013 it\u2019s a world gone MAD!&nbsp; To top it off, many people aren\u2019t staying home and, well, I\u2019m kinda getting used to this sling.&nbsp; More people are dying every day, others are testing positive, while others either can\u2019t or are afraid to take the test.&nbsp; You know what this sounds like?&nbsp; The 1980s!&nbsp; Well, except for the part about me being in a sling\u2026I guess I just needed to ease into it.&nbsp; Is it just me, or does it seem completely unfair to go through two plagues in one lifetime?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s put this into some historical context.&nbsp; When the AIDS crisis first hit, nobody knew anything: how you got it, how it was transmitted, how to prevent getting it, how to cure it, etc.&nbsp; In short, the same questions everyone has now.&nbsp; Back then, doctors gave us their best guesses, and people either took their advice or didn\u2019t.&nbsp; But the one thing I remember vividly is that if you were fat, the presumption was that you were healthy.&nbsp; And even this has a historical precedent.&nbsp; During the <em>Renaissance<\/em>, the wealthy were always painted as being large and rotund.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because if you were fat, you clearly had enough money to buy food!&nbsp; So when this whole coronavirus is over and some of us look a bit chunky in our <em>Speedos<\/em>, it simply means that we were safe (and, in my case, eating my weight in peppermint bark every day).&nbsp; And there\u2019s your silver lining.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the new normal.&nbsp; Everyone is staying home, and Billy\u2019s in a sling 24\/7 \u2013 it\u2019s a world gone MAD!&nbsp; To top it off, many people aren\u2019t staying home and, well, I\u2019m kinda getting used to this sling.&nbsp; More people are dying every day, others are testing positive, while others either can\u2019t or are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6772,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}