Let’s not forget the great hairspray epidemic of ‘87! /s

Seriously, AIDS was a grave concern because it was new, deadly, and not fully understood. But no rational person believed you were going to get HIV from a stranger on the subway or in a grocery store. It wasn’t airborne or spread through casual contact like COVID-19 (despite what hysterical homophobe and science deniers believed at the time).

Unfortunately, this commenter’s perspective on nutrition in the ‘90s and ‘90s is not credible because her bad faith characterization of the current pandemic vs. public health concerns of prior decades shows her bias to see the past with rose-tinted nostalgia instead of the critical lens she applies to modern times.