COVID death celebration evokes memories of HIV death celebration

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63. The analogy is far from "not exact". It's not even in the ballpark.

The mockery of antivaxx COVID-19 victims is motivated by the intentional or at least negligent harm that many of them have caused. The virus is also more highly transmissible, meaning one person has the potential to cause a lot of harm. There is a vaccine for COVID-19, but we have ~60 million in this country alone who won't take it, which is bad enough by itself, but they are also ripping masks off strangers, stealing equipment from testing stations, forging vaccination cards to travel, threatening essential workers, setting up social media pages promoting "alternative" treatments, trying to defeat mask and vaccine mandates, etc.

The mockery of AIDS victims and the inaction on the epidemic was motivated by hatred and lack of understanding of people who did not choose to be who they were and who did not have access to the information and resources we have today that would have warned them of the dangers. There was no cure or treatment for AIDS at the time.