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What we knew and how knowledgeable the general public was about it was a wide gap though, even as a child in the 90s I saw myself that people still had misconceptions about how it was transmitted. Someone in a position of power showing it to be safe to interact with people who had the infection was still a pretty big deal at the time.
Definitely. I'm referring specifically to the medical risk she believed she was facing, not the value of her actions.
She used her platform to remind the public that AIDS sufferers were safe and to destigmatize them - she deserves praise for that.
Comparing her to a theoretical Jesus who could not have known he faced no medical risk is fair, but the difference is that she knew she was at no risk.