Godzilla stompin’ away, as usual.
Still a good precaution. And definitely necessary for everyone for when life has returned to normal in like three years just in case you meet the love of your life and they’re positive.
Couldn’t share this fast enough.
Rebloging this to add a little more info because it’s very important:
Antiretroviral therapy when used correctly can cause the user’s “viral load” (your viral load is how much of the virus is in your bloodstream), to drop because the medicine prevents HIV from creating copies of itself.
Regular blood tests are done to monitor your viral load, and after taking the medication long enough, it can drop so low that it becomes “durably undetectable”. This means that the HIV virus in you has become so miniscule that it can’t be detected, and by extension can’t be transmitted either. It’s important to note that in order to be considered durable undetectable, you MUST test as undetectable for at least 6 months after testing as undetectable for the first time.
Also very important, being durably undetectable does NOT mean that you’re cured or that the virus is gone, not by a longshot. The HIV virus is still very much there, but instead of being active, it’s gone dormant in a small number of cells called “viral reservoirs”. This why it’s EXTREMELY important that even after achieving durably undetectable status, you continue to take your Antiretroviral medications correctly. Because if you stop, the HIV virus will reemerge from the viral reservoirs and pick up right where it left off in creating copies of itself, and you will have to start all over again if you want to become durably undetectable again.
This is great advice for people struggling with or know someone who has HIV.
On this day, 20 February 1917, a food riot by mostly Jewish women took place in New York’s Lower East Side following an argument between a woman and an onion-seller on Orchard Street.
During World War I, the price of food and staple goods had risen significantly, and working class people found it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. After the argument began, the woman overturned the onion-sellers cart and hundreds of women began seizing food, and hurling it at police when they arrived. One of the participants was Maria Ganz, an anarchist factory foreperson.
Scuffles spread to nearby streets and the women marched to city hall where Ganz was arrested for making a speech in Yiddish.
A group of women subsequently established The Mother’s Anti-High Price League, with an office at the headquarters of the Jewish Daily Forward, and organise boycotts of certain goods across the city in order to force sellers to reduce prices.
More info, sources and map in our Stories web app: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9261/women’s-food-riot
Pictured: Ganz addressing a crowd during the riot https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2214661575385647/?type=3
