Being in Jeffrey was a statement, he was famous “Picard”!
The last people I personally knew who died of #AIDS or #HIV related diseases died in the early 2000. The timeline was
1. everyone is dying miserably of the plague
2. we have kind of a treatment (AZT) for a while
3. we have #HAART, everyone lives (for maybe very long), maybe with problems
4. with ART nobody gets infected or sick ever
Jeffrey (and my coming out) happened at about 2.
“we” meant being health insured and in a rich country.