A Toronto pop-up restaurant is the first of its kind anywhere, and was born out of a recent poll suggesting many still fear sharing food with someone HIV positive:
The 14-person team was working to open June’s, a unique pop-up restaurant in Toronto that is the world’s first eatery in which all of the kitchen staff are HIV positive.
“We really wanted to be able to challenge the stigma that still exists around HIV,” said Joanne Simons of Casey House, Canada’s first and only standalone hospital for people living with HIV/Aids. The idea of a restaurant was born out of a recent poll that suggested only half of Canadians would knowingly share or eat food prepared by someone who is HIV positive.
The event comes as, on average, seven Canadians a day are diagnosed with HIV, a rate that has decreased only slightly since the 1980s.
When Casey House opened in 1988, its first client was brought to the facility flanked by paramedics in hazmat suits. Despite huge advances in treating the disease and better understanding of how it is contracted, much of the stigma of that era endures today, said Simons. “I think that there’s still this lingering notion that if I have regular human contact with somebody with HIV, I may contract it – and it is still a death sentence.”
She pointed to some of the reaction on social media after the pop-up was launched as an example. But with these comments came an invaluable opportunity to publicly address some of the myths that persist today around HIV.
“There were a lot of questions about what happens if somebody cuts themselves in the kitchen and they’re HIV positive,” said Simons. “We manage that like anybody would in a kitchen: you make sure you provide first aid, you clean up the area, you throw away whatever has been touched by the blood and you clean the surfaces. We would do that regardless of whether you have HIV or not – that’s just common sense.”
Others wondered about the risk of transmission. “There’s absolutely no risk that somebody can contract HIV from sharing a meal,” she said. “HIV doesn’t live well out of the body for any length of time and through the cooking the virus dies.”
Of course, the so-called HIV retro virus does not cause AIDS, never has and never will, and the CDC is aware of this, but the HIV industrial-complex has become so enormous and so lucrative that they don’t dare stop the train now. What kills people who test positive for HIV is the anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that they give patients to suppress the virus. The side effects from these drugs are virtually indistinguishable from the symptoms of AIDS, which is why it’s easy for doctors to claim that people on these drugs eventually “succumbed to AIDS”.
But putting that reality aside, these restaurant employees obviously believe the disinformation about HIV, as do the potential customers who will eat there. And there can be no other purpose for this restaurant than to normalize homosexuality, or better yet get rid of “homophobia”. Don’t fear HIV+ people, don’t fear gays teaching your children, don’t fear transgender freaks in your public restrooms, etc. The liberal media first pumps you full of fear and then shames you for being afraid. Let your guard down, and embrace the rainbow future, goyim!
Pattern_Blind
And just like that for no reason what so ever, Hitler started rounding up jews and putting them in camps…
Wonder what it feels like to find a bloody bandaid in your food at a store manned by homosexuals with AIDS. I think it’s funny how people make a distinction between suffering the full break down from HIV and someone who just has HIV. Your gonna die and no one wants you near their food either way. Silly HIV infected homosexuals actually market this to get customers, welcome to (((Clown World))).
Chesterton
When I first read this headline, I thought it must be a joke, some satirical piece, but I checked it with other primary sources, and apparently it’s real. That’s how absurd the world has gotten today–when everything has become so outrageous and extreme that it can’t possible seem real at first.
But then again, this is only the beginning. The absurdity is going to go through the roof as the liberals are further emboldened and their hypocrisy goes unchallenged in the mainstream media. They have no checks and balances, and without them, they will spiral out into literal insanity and destroy themselves.
Ottify
Really? I mean…REALLY???
Ronald
The “lifestyle” of homosexuals, both gay and lesbian, is simply disgusting. They are literally walking petri dishes of numerous diseases, venereal and otherwise. If you think they are “just like us”, think again. They belong to a death cult, and they want to spread their disease and insanity throughout society, especially to our children.
Here’s just a sampling of what their “lifestyle” involves, if you have the stomach for it:
http://www.familyresearchinst.org/2009/02/medical-consequences-of-what-homosexuals-do/
konawolv
This is gross…
There are tons of obvious issues that I’m sure others will chime in on.. but I wonder what sort of tax advantages this “trendy” restaurant is getting.. I wonder how much they are paying these employees. I wonder if they discriminate against non HIV applicants etc.