So TR, do you want to create a WoS section and have Wasting redirect to that? Or, given that WoS is an entire novel with AIDS at its center, would you rather create a separate Wasting article for fear of overwhelming this page? Turtle Fan (talk) 03:23, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
- Redirect here. The information will be manageable, since they know less about it in 350 years than we did after five years. TR (talk) 04:48, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
- Makes sense. Turtle Fan (talk) 16:52, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
- Actually when you put it that way I suppose we're very fortunate that HIV didn't appear any earlier than it did. Nasty pathogens like it are under no obligation to wait to appear till they can be understood. Smallpox and the plague certainly proved that, but our ancestors were able to figure out simple, if crude and imperfectly effective, ways of managing them. Something like HIV would have been much more vexing, as the novel clearly shows. Turtle Fan (talk) 16:56, 27 December 2023 (UTC)