January 29, 2014 at 8:25 am
I’m not sure about the back and forth arguments regarding AIDs. It was definitely a politically motivated issue, as well as a politically divided one. And I’m with the camp that was trying to teach personal responsibility. Those were drowned out by the “just put a condom on it”, “you can’t expect people to modify their behaviors in any way!” diatribes. You’d think a condom could never ever fail.
Bill Clinton promised an Aids vaccine would be developed during his first term of office during the campaign in ’92, and one obviously hadn’t been developed thus far because Bush (senior) didn’t care enough. And no earthly sum of money was enough to throw at the research, but God forbid any behavioral expectations for disease prevention (beyond putting a condom on it) whatsoever were even hinted at…any politician with such uncosmopolitan ideas was commiting political suicide. When the Secretary of Health and Human services is making the public claim to Congress (in 1994 or thereabouts) that there might not be any Americans left due to AIDs soon, we’ve far surpassed the point of rational reasoning. And in 1994 we had a pretty good handle on exactly how HIV was actually spread and how it was not spread (by contrast, in the late ’80s not so much).
Anyway, I’ve drawn blood from a patient with full-blown AIDs (in the 90s) and it was very unsettling to feel with one slip of that needle I could be in the same position. That is a bad, bad disease and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
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Liz says:
January 29, 2014 at 8:30 am
Team America was a truly satirically brilliant movie, and this bit sums up the early ’90s “sensibility” I’m referring to above quite well I think.
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