I Remember Rock Hudson
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Roy Harold Scherer, Jr, aka Rock Hudson was an actor whose work I followed as a fan of McMillan and Wife and a number of comedy shows from my extreme youth.
When I was working in the medical field during the 1970s and 1980s I was immersed in the AIDS epidemic which innundated the West coast clinics I worked during that timeframe.
After his passing, he was the brunt of various jokes regarding how and why he died and though I laughed at a few of them and even repeated some I now view that as a rather misguided implementation of humor that I would not repeat had it all transpired later in my lifetime.
Essentially, no person who suffered the ravages of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and those complications which typically accompanied it during those early days should ever suffer ridicule on top of everything else.
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