06-12-2004, 11:17 PM
Quote:i am sure that all of the people he let die of aids
This implies that these people, who had AIDS, might not die if Reagan did what you wanted him to do.
At last check, AIDS has a 100 mortality rate.
But you want the president, who's been in office less than a year, to speak out immediatly about a disease which had not become an epidemic yet.
In the 80's, Arpi was putting cocaine up his nose. I was putting dirt up mine, along with riding bicycles and and playing soccer, so the conversations regarding the mood of the country and the president's job were limited.
I shall reference the movie American Psycho for my conception of how people were discussing AIDS during the 80's.
There's the scene where Patrick and others are sniffing cocaine, as was the usual, and they start discussing an article about a theory about how AIDS might be able to be spread like the common cold since death is caused by opportunistic diseases, not by the immuno-deficiency virus itself.
I would guess that this scene is a reflection of the actual mood of the country; how everyone was worried because no one knew anything about how it was transmitted. (The movie takes place in 86-87.)
Obviously, this is because Ronald Reagan didn't say anything about it. (wtf)
Sure, the argument gets made; spending money MIGHT help cure the diesease but not spending money will not help.
Let us open up our missals, and turn to this week's reading from the Book of Rock.
"The money's not in the cure. The money's in the medicine."
Why should the government want to find a cure? They want to collect money so that they can keep giving out the medicine, not give out the cure.
Brother Rock's soundbyte suggests that businesses does not want to find a cure. We have Brother Sir O to explain to us why our government won't help find a cure. I would like Brother Galt to explain how the free market would want to find the cure.
In my opinion, having a bunch of companies doing nothing but manufacturing the medicine leave it open for a small company to find the cure, which is why those larger companies would want to find the cure and maybe patent it (I'm not sure of the whole patent rules, whether medicine can be patented) before any one else. But, even if it is patented, then that basically tells the world that someone has the cure.
What is the motivation for the government to find the cure? To get re-elected? Who's gonna be elected? Another person who won't help get you a cure faster.