Medical science has absolved "Patient Zero" of everything that he was accused of anyway, so trying to link him to anybody seems rather pointless!
Yeah, the timing of the book couldn't have been at a worse time because of all the news coverade about Patient Zero theory being debunked right before it was published. I wonder if the book would have a different approach if it was written now - because seriously there were sections of the book that were just Six Degrees of Gaetan Dugas to try to create a direct line from him to Freddie...
(that said, this book was far more respectful of Dugas than many other things that I've read)
Why try to make an issue of the date?
The writers' theory was that Freddie had become positive already in the early 80's, and that the first test that he had in 1985 was already positive - and that Freddie was just either in denial or lying about the result until 1987... That, I thought, was the low point of the book.
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Date: 2017-01-04 05:47 pm (UTC)Yeah, the timing of the book couldn't have been at a worse time because of all the news coverade about Patient Zero theory being debunked right before it was published. I wonder if the book would have a different approach if it was written now - because seriously there were sections of the book that were just Six Degrees of Gaetan Dugas to try to create a direct line from him to Freddie...
(that said, this book was far more respectful of Dugas than many other things that I've read)
Why try to make an issue of the date?
The writers' theory was that Freddie had become positive already in the early 80's, and that the first test that he had in 1985 was already positive - and that Freddie was just either in denial or lying about the result until 1987... That, I thought, was the low point of the book.