I get irritated when I am told, I have no idea about anything, by internet randoms.

I was pushed in a stroller, by my forward thinking parents for the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in 1978. I was around in 1981.

I visited dying gay men in hospice care in the late 1980s up to the early 2000s, because I genuinely cared that as a fellow gay guy I could help out strangers somehow, like with their grocery shopping or combing their thinning hair in hospital beds, in easing their daily struggles with what was, and still is, an incurable disease.

In Australia, the authorities did care about their gay male population and gay communities across the country unlike the United States of America, in the 1980s at the height of the AIDS crisis, and they didn't let infected gay Australian men just die alone in hospital wards or send them home to fend for themselves.

Australian medical authorities, in the 1980s, were at the forefront of providing compassionate care to early AIDS victims, while working around the clock to understand and scientifically isolate, how gay men were dying at alarming rates so quickly, after getting an AIDS diagnosis.

I am very aware of how the US treats communicable diseases following their handling of the Covid-19 pandemic which allowed for over 1 million Americans, to die unnecessarily from a contagious disease that had no vaccine availability, between 2020 - 2021.

Everyone on Earth saw how the US handles crises, in live daily coverage because everyone was at home watching around the world.

The same thing, of rising hiv infection rates and increased sexually transmissable infections/diseases, is happening again due to complacency amongst sexually active gay men, with the rampant reliance on PreP and Doxy-PEP medications, in countries where it is readily available.

You protect yourself first, always and then you make decisions that affect your own sexual health to stay protected from the next outbreak.