I don't believe for a minute that he was infected that early. He would never have been as powerful a presence on the Magic Tour if so. Nowadays people can be HIV+ and live more or less normal lives, but in the eighties that sadly was just not the case for the vast majority.
Did he take some silly risks in the early eighties, and behave in a reckless fashion? Yes, though that was his choice, and appears to have been an informed one. But he wasn't infected then. The fact that it seems to have happened later, after he had made the decision to live more sensibly, only makes it all the more sad (and ought to make for a better tale in a book, really, but what do I know!)
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Date: 2017-01-05 08:15 am (UTC)Did he take some silly risks in the early eighties, and behave in a reckless fashion? Yes, though that was his choice, and appears to have been an informed one. But he wasn't infected then. The fact that it seems to have happened later, after he had made the decision to live more sensibly, only makes it all the more sad (and ought to make for a better tale in a book, really, but what do I know!)