YMMV / Babylon Five S 02 E 18 Confessions And Lamentations

• What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: Drafa plague is not intended as a stand-in for AIDS, despite the parallels: initially unknown etiology and vector of transmission, perception that it's punishment for immorality...
  • The episode namedrops AIDS, the Black Death, and a fictional plague as examples of how this kind of head-in-the-sand reaction is a near-universal failing not unique to any one example.