Brittain33
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« on: October 28, 2014, 07:06:40 AM » |
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« edited: October 28, 2014, 07:08:22 AM by Gravis Marketing »
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With AIDS, it had already become a major disaster for gays in the U.S. by the early 80s, but at that time we weren't considered relevant victims for "real" Americans. Reagan didn't mention AIDS until 1986, I think, which was several years into the epidemic.
Reagan's response to Legionnaire's Disease demonstrated the government could move swiftly and loudly on a public health scare, even a trivial one, if the victims were significant.
Dems weren't much better than Reagan at the time. The hero was C. Everett Koop, a conservative Reagan appointee for Surgeon General who stepped up and did his job.
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