In 2009, H1N1 was widely blamed on people from Mexico leading to calls to shutter the U.S.-Mexico border. In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan refused to even utter the words HIV and AIDS, which many people homophobically dubbed “the gay disease,” letting thousands of Americans suffer and die without the necessary research funding, access to drug treatment, or the dignity of a government that cared about them. In 1901, during a smallpox outbreak, Italian and Irish immigrants living in New York were removed from their homes, forcibly vaccinated, and sent to Brother Island near the Bronx. In 1900, Honolulu’s Chinatown was burned to the ground because of an outbreak of bubonic plague.
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