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Originally Posted by dcortez
Silly conspiracy theories aside, it is a verifiable fact that the Regan administration knowingly ignored the serious nature of hiv/aids when it first started cropping up in america in the early 80s.
In fact, hiv/aids proliferated at an incredible rate, much due to the ignorance (not to mention the morally richeous indignance) and willingness to let it run its course (on the belief that it was a 'gay' disease and 'those' people had it coming).
Now it is a serious epidemic that affects heterosexual christians too.
The same brilliant 'management team' which allowed a disease like hiv/aids to get so out of control because of its moral beliefs is now trying to 'democratize' the rest of the planet based on similar moral values.
What surprises me more is that, as counterintuitive as these mindsets are from a rational perspective, in the last US election, more than half of the american voting populus seemed to endorse the continuation of this style of lunacy.
Strange days ahead...
-Dino
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So you blame the US government for the spread of AIDS? How about blaming the europeans for the plague or the Chinese for SARS? Damned native americans let smallpox get out of control.
Everyone was ignorant in the beginning.
1982. Less than 1000 AIDs deaths in US. $2.6 million in US funding for AIDS research
1983. CDC undertakes case study. Mode of transmission not discovered yet
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001257.htm
HIV link reported later that year
1985. First international AIDs conference held in Atlanta
Congress approves $70 million to AIDS research. HIV antibody test approved.
1987. Reagan calls AIDS "public enemy number one". AZT approved
Federal funding for HIV/AIDS doubled nearly every year from 1982 to 1989.