That's a Bit Much
While I do think that Reagan ignored AIDS for way too long, I wouldn't call him a murderer. I think that's going quite a bit too far. And I also don't blame him for AIDS. AIDS would be here no matter who was President in the 80's. The point is that he (and others) not only ignored it but misled the American people about it. And it might not have gotten so out of hand and we might be further along in research, etc. if the ignorance about the disease had stopped at the government. Instead they not only didn't go out of their way to stop the myth that it's only a gay disease, they also did plenty to perpetuate the state of fear & denial concerning AIDS. And a little funding would have gone a long way in those early days.
You'd think this "you get what you deserve attitude" towards AIDS would've ended years ago. But Page Six's statement that AIDS is "a disease spread through unsafe sexual practices and illicit use of hypodermic needles" proves otherwise. Of course, that's true. But the underlying cruelness of the context of that statement is disturbing. What does it matter how someone gets a disease? It doesn't make it any less tragic. People can get cancer through all sorts of unhealthy habits but people don't go out of their way to point that out. And don't even start with me about the continually idiocy of the government concerning education on any matter sexual. Abstinence is dandy but not the least bit realistic.
On a sidenote, at the beginning of the epidemic it was also in the blood supply. A fact that was suspected quickly then proven and still ignored by the government long enough for plenty of people to contract the disease from blood transfusions and other ways. GRRR... this all makes me angry.
REAGAN-HATERS GO NUTS
You'd think this "you get what you deserve attitude" towards AIDS would've ended years ago. But Page Six's statement that AIDS is "a disease spread through unsafe sexual practices and illicit use of hypodermic needles" proves otherwise. Of course, that's true. But the underlying cruelness of the context of that statement is disturbing. What does it matter how someone gets a disease? It doesn't make it any less tragic. People can get cancer through all sorts of unhealthy habits but people don't go out of their way to point that out. And don't even start with me about the continually idiocy of the government concerning education on any matter sexual. Abstinence is dandy but not the least bit realistic.
On a sidenote, at the beginning of the epidemic it was also in the blood supply. A fact that was suspected quickly then proven and still ignored by the government long enough for plenty of people to contract the disease from blood transfusions and other ways. GRRR... this all makes me angry.
REAGAN-HATERS GO NUTS
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