Ian comments on being accosted by a window washer in the CBD, and therefore forces my hand in commenting on this part of my current reading book, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. In the section in cleaning up crime in New York during the early 1990’s, I was interested to note that one of…
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Tipping Point: Gaetan Dugas, the AIDS patient zero
Page 21 of The Tipping Point mentions Gaetan Dugas, the so-called AIDS patient zero: “…the French-Canadian flight attendant, who claimed to have 2,500 sexual partners in North America, and who was linked to at least 40 of the earliest cases of AIDS in California and New York…” Assuming this time line of the AIDS epidemic…