Posted on 03/11/2016 2:42:50 PM PST by Nachum
Must have missed her nap.
This is more than a psychopath, Hillary is pure evil.
She missed her nap or her afternoon dose of Zoloft.
Do not double-up in case of missed doses, Mrs. Clinton.
Even homosexuals knew it as "gay cancer" in the early 80s.
It was obvious to anyone with a brain that it was transmitted sexually, and in 99% of the cases it was gay men.
Once HIV infected donated blood entered the general population, it now became something everyone *could* get.
But still to this day it is a gay male disease.
At least in the developed world.
And really, what could have been done about it to stop it?
Uh, don't receive unprotected anal intercourse.
Was that just too difficult to understand?
I guess so, because gays blamed Reagan because an instant cure wasn't available.
As if they'd take sex tips from an old fogey president.
I doubt anyone is going to have to apologize for praising this obnoxious b__ch when she dies, because no one will.
When the disease was first noticed it was called GRIDS (Gay Related Immunodeficient Disease). Because it was almost completely restricted to the homosexual community.
The name was quickly changed. Because it was too accurate.
Me too. Lost a classmate to AIDS that finally took him in the early nineties after he had moved away. As long as I live, I’ll never forget how that 30 yo man in the casket could look like a 110yo that had been dead for 10 years.
What’s scary, is that he was a surgical nurse during the late 80s
In 1983, the CDC first warned blood banks of a possible problem with the blood supply. The virus was spreading and patient #1 was not identified until a year later.
In 1984, US scientists discover the virus that causes AIDS; however, this is about a year after the French discovery. President Reagan introduces the topic shortly after.
I was aware in 1982 that there was something going around the gay community, but it was largely rumor and just not reliable. I was working with at-risk kids and in athletics, so we were cautious about anything that may have been transmitted through fluids. Numbers were (and still are) very hard to pin down, but the French started to look harder at it in 1983.
Given the reluctance to report it and the inability to track down solid information, RR acted responsibly. The gay crowd hated on him because he was not talking about it in public. He did not want to start a panic and possibly even more civil problems than they already saw heading for them. He openly addressed it in 1985, when he felt we were better prepared for it. It had NOTHING to do with gays. It was a health issue that had enormous and terrifying consequences attached.
This is typical liberal right-bashing. What better time to drag it out than on this day? They have no shame.
We don’t need 4-8 more years of a president WITHOUT A CONSCIENCE. Burn in hell, Hillary.
Really? I don’t see that quote about them being strong supporters of research. Where is it?
it sickened me to see Hillary Clinton there
Gay or not, it wouldn't have made a difference.
"Are joo talkin-a-to ME!?"
Nose to nose in an instant. "Yep 'Slick'. I'm a talkin to joo. What joo gonna do now? P!$$ in your panties?"
The article criticizes the Reagan’s for doing nothing about AIDS until their second term (i.e., mid-’80s) and then somehow lauds Elizabeth Taylor (Rock Hudson’s friend) for holding an AIDS benefit in 1992.
How many gay people (and blood transfusion recipients) died because AIDS wasn’t treated like any other sexually transmitted disease, with an effort to track down known sexual contacts?
I didn't see it but apparently Clinton said Nancy Reagan had been a strong advocate on stem cell research, which she was, and on HIV/AIDS research, which she wasn't. She wound up walking back the HIV/AIDS part.
The worry was that infected "bisexuals" would infect heterosexual women who would then infect heterosexual men...of course monogamous individuals had little to worry about (as long as they did not have a promiscuous spouse).
Ronald Reagan speaking out wouldn't have changed a thing. Homosexuals were infecting other homosexuals--they resisted closing down bath houses which were likely sites for spreading the infection.
Yeah, not a fan either. I think they were in at least two episodes - AIDS Walk and the Armoire Heist.
You DO KNOW that HRC was in bed passed out drunk and that was Huma playing damage control.
I remember taking a layman’s pharmacology course in the late 70s in college. There was a day where we covered birth control methods. Efficacy rates were compared between condoms, IUDs, “the pill”, etc and the instructors pointed out what a poor success rate condoms had (about 85%). Fast forward a decade later and, suddenly, condoms were the magic bullet that instantly kept away all diseases, not to mention pregnancies, and we needed to literally throw them at our students to make sure they had one in case the mood hit.
That’s when I knew politics had taken over science.
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