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Topic	If Nixon and Reagan had handled the crack and aids epidemics....
MrMallard 02/11/21 2:55:47 AM #6:	brestugo posted... I think the drug of choice during Nixon's era was heroine. It is curious that when we fucked around in Southeast Asia, a narcotic originating there floods the streets. Reagan fucks around in Latin America and the drug originating there (coke) floods the streets. As for AIDS Reagan defined it as a "gay disease" and once that decision was made, I don't believe he cared that much afterwards. For a time, like Trump did with Fauci, he forbade his surgeon general to even talk about it. The whole story of Reagan and AIDS is in And the Band Played On. What I know of the situation comes from Lindsey Ellis's video about RENT. Pretty solid cliff notes version if nothing else, with an entertainingly critical take on RENT sandwiched between it. The part where she juxtaposed the glitzy, shallow dancing of RENT with a guy from the CDC going "it's a PLAGUE! it's a FUCKING PLAGUE!" was pretty amazing. And she points out that the word passed down to the CDC from Reagan was "look pretty and do as little as possible". --- I can feel it in my bones, I'm gonna spend another year alone. Now Playing: Persona 5, Minecraft <cite>MrMallard posted [p:950514698] in If Nixon a... [t:79289253]...</cite> <quote>brestugo posted... </cite> <quote>I think the drug of choice during Nixon's era was heroine. It is curious that when we fucked around in Southeast Asia, a narcotic originating there floods the streets. Reagan fucks around in Latin America and the drug originating there (coke) floods the streets. As for AIDS Reagan defined it as a "gay disease" and once that decision was made, I don't believe he cared that much afterwards. For a time, like Trump did with Fauci, he forbade his surgeon general to even talk about it. The whole story of Reagan and AIDS is in And the Band Played On.</quote>What I know of the situation comes from Lindsey Ellis's video about RENT. Pretty solid cliff notes version if nothing else, with an entertainingly critical take on RENT sandwiched between it. The part where she juxtaposed the glitzy, shallow dancing of RENT with a guy from the CDC going "it's a PLAGUE! it's a FUCKING PLAGUE!" was pretty amazing. And she points out that the word passed down to the CDC from Reagan was "look pretty and do as little as possible". --- I can feel it in my bones, I'm gonna spend another year alone. Now Playing: Persona 5, Minecraft</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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