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“In the Middle Ages, the leper was a social text in which corruption was made visible, an emblem of decay. Nothing is more punitive that to give disease a meaning the meaning being invariably a moralistic one.” Susan Sontag, writer and philosopher, in her 1977 essay, Illness as Metaphor.
‘Victim cremated in secret…Tourists help spread… Panic on luxury cruiser…Power to detain victims.”
These headlines, brimming with moral panic and describing a new health threat first seen in a group of marginalised communities in the US, could so easily be ascribed to Covid-19.
They are in fact drawn from Irish press reports from February 1985, detailing the emergence of cluster of rare opportunistic infections Aids assailing primarily gay and bisexual men, sex workers, injecting drug users and, latterly, haemophiliacs. ....

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