How Does Aids Affect Our Society

When people usually hear the word aids, they automatically know it is a deadly virus. The aids virus was one of the most feared viruses in U.S history. The virus made its appearance in the U.S in the 1980’s. More than 70 million people have been affected with aids from the beginning of the epidemic until now. The aids virus and the witchcraft epidemic were to situations in which brutality and misjudgment surfaced in human society. People with aids were treated very badly and as if they did not belong, People without aids threatened to kill people who had aids, mostly homosexuals, and did not want to have any physical contact with them because they thought the virus was transferred by touch. The aids victims were basically alienated in society and was jumped or beaten by people who feared or disliked the disease. Most people thought that just because you were homosexual automatically meant that you had aids, which was an ignorant thing to believe. Bill Gates stated …show more content…
People who were accused of witchcraft were killed because of false accusations, just as people with aids were killed or mistreated because of accusations as well. Kathryn Howe stated in her book about witchcraft “Just because you believe it doesn't mean that it’s true” (GoodReads). This quote is very essential when it comes down to false accusations. People who were assumed to be doing witchcraft was alienated and kept away from society just like people with aids. A man in Salem, Massachusetts, John Proctor was executed because he was falsely accused of witchcraft. Also, a man named, Giles Corey, for the same reason. Trails were held for all people who were accused. The trails that were ordered was unfair, and people would lie on a person stating that the saw them doing something that was of witchcraft such as flying or drinking blood, and the court would believe it. It is astonishing how much ignorance chaos can