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Russo is angry about the fact that the media and the public are not being very inclusive about the disease. He goes on and explains how this disease is portrayed as only affecting whites and heterosexuals. He is specifically angry because the media has ignored "specific homosexual content" Therefore, creating biases and not properly informing the people about the disease. If the media paints this picture of what a person with AIDS "should look like" that's erroneous this will make people have a wrong idea of the disease

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Russo compares the AID epidemic to Legionnaires disease by explaining how angry he was of how much people died who could have been alive today. He also compares to how Legionnaires disease effected specifically straight men and thus payed more attention too, rather than the latter.

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Russo is most angry about how the media is more focused on the stories on AIDS instead of focusing on the heterosexual disease (HIV). Also the fact it took 8 years long makes it believe that the gay people have been fighting for so long.  Towards the public, the gay community have basically been silenced, making people uneducated of the idea of homosexuality's. Making it seem like they weren't present or existent.

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Russo does this to emphasize that AIDS is more than just a disease, but it is a form of division that separates those with AIDS to those without it. Russo initially mentions war as something that unites people fighting for a common cause, but because AIDS doesn't affect the majority population, most people don't care. This has the effect of marginalizing those with AIDS, hence why the epidemics is a "war that has divided us."

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Russo compared the AIDS epidemic to a "war that has divided us" because it has separated the people who had aids as monsters and those without aids. They let the media stigmatize the disease and this was never destigmatized, the discrimination towards those with aids in minority groups, particularly the LGBTQ+. The stigma is what created the divide.

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It alienated people with aids from the general population as AIDS was most common with "fags and junkies". Usually a war unites a country, at least in some way, but with aids, one group of people has been targeted and "cast out", or declared as hopeless

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Because it did not happen to the "real people of the country", only to the "disposable populations of junkies" who deserve what they get.

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Because it did not happen to the "real people of the country", only to the "disposable populations of junkies" who deserve what they get.

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he says how the legionnaire's disease was treated with more attention because it affected straight men.

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The author compares how the society and government do not care about making it a priority to solve the problem unless it includes them, those of the same color, those who looked like them, and who sounded like them. No one took AIDs seriously because those affected did not meet the criteria. They could not get people hired to check the drugs and took almost 18 months just for one reporter to write about it. However, with the Legionnaire's Disease the whole world knew about it and everyone ensured that it would be posted on all newspaper and all news channels.

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This connects by explaining how the government and society do not really care about making certain issues and epidemics a priority unless it directly involves them. Mainly people with lots of power this effects. Language and words give people the power to speak their truth.

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Russo’s comparison between the AIDS epidemic and the reaction to Legionnaires disease by society in general highlight the prejudice against members of the LGBTQ+ community, specifically those affected by AIDS. In his perspective, thousands of lives could have been saved from dying of AIDS if they had been given the amount of attention and care as straight men affected by Legionnaires disease.

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This text connects to the world because people with higher authority and more power will only use their language when the matter affects them personally. People want to use their words when it affects a bigger population. They do not accept others and do not include those who "do not look like you"

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I think this can be connected to language to power because he saying how because the media was stigmatizing the disease, therefore isolating people of certain minorities. It relates to Audre Lorde's writings because she talks about how speaking out and using language can give power to those who are not understood.

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strong language with cursing gives a lot of emphasis and power on your speach

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Russo compare the aid epidemic to the legionnaire's disease by explains how many people died that could of been alive. he also explains that Legionnare's disease was more cared for since it was affecting straight men

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Russo compare the aid epidemic to the legionnaire's disease by explains how many people died that could of been alive. he also explains that Legionnare's disease was more cared for since it was affecting straight men

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Russo compare the aid epidemic to the legionnaire's disease by explains how many people died that could of been alive. he also explains that 

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Russo did this to put into context the extent of the division that AIDS had caused. It separated people with aids and those supporting people with AIDS from everyone else. It was to the extent that the rest of the population saw people with AIDS as “the disposable populations” which was why it took so long for action to be taken against it