They perform sick. I've learned to hold on to today a bit harder than I used to. There's the prospect of losing tomorrow. Mengden feels that it is important to put a face on the disease because discrimination has not gone away. Her friend stopped eating and told her that she was the first person who had been willing to share food with him since he was diagnosed.
People are still scared they can contract the disease from touching somebody else.
This isolates those who have to live with it.