People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the ongoing stigma faced by people with HIV and criticizes the inadequate political response to the epidemic.
Elton John's quote sheds light on the persistent social stigma that individuals with HIV/AIDS face despite advances in medicine and awareness. He argues that the rising infection rates and increasing fatalities are unacceptable, calling attention to the lack of effective political action to address these issues, ultimately conveying a sense of urgency and sorrow regarding the ongoing epidemic and its societal implications.
In practice
In a speech about health policy, this quote can be used to emphasize the need for more comprehensive approaches to HIV/AIDS treatment.
I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
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Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.
If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.
I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true.
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