4,000 dead from swine flu

[Blair]

Yes it is "UN FRIGGN BELIEVABLE" because I did no such thing. Once again you are seeing what you want to see.

Oh my bad......I only imagined a post by someone named poppy that said Reagans inactions were attributed to 20,000 + deaths due to aids.....:roll:

 

[Blair]

I wouldn't not blame Ronald Reagan for the AIDS epidemic, but it is a known fact that Ronald Reagan did stand idly by with absolutely no public comment during the beginning stages of the disease when it only affected gay men, and well into it's insideous growth. In fact, he had no comment until the disease befell actor Rock Hudson.

SILENCE = DEATH

And exactly what is it that he should have done????

"Well.......You boys behave"...or what?????

 

[poppy]

Oh my bad......I only imagined a post by someone named poppy that said Reagans inactions were attributed to 20,000 + deaths due to aids.....:roll:

Blair, I going to apologize for this ahead of time, you're an idiot. 20,849 deaths occurred before he took action, how you are reading into this fact that I'm blaming Reagan for these deaths is beyond comprehension.

And exactly what is it that he should have done????

"Well.......You boys behave"...or what?????

What was needed? Money.

From The Body - - -

Members of Congress calling for a sustained federal response to AIDS had to operate in this political and electoral climate. The most active members of Congress in the early years of the AIDS crisis represented districts or states with large gay constituencies. For example, in the House of Representatives, three Democrats, Barbara Boxer of San Francisco, Henry Waxman of Los Angeles, and Ted Weiss of New York, were active in calling for a committed federal government response to AIDS. But they and their supporters faced an uphill battle given both the Reagan administration's general policies of fiscal austerity and its particular hostility to even acknowledging the potential seriousness of AIDS.
From June 1981 to June 1982, the period generally considered the first twelve months of the epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spent $1 million on AIDS, compared with $9 million in response to the much smaller problem of Legionnaires' disease. In late 1982, Congress allocated $2.6 million to be targeted for the CDC's AIDS research, but the Reagan administration claimed that the CDC did not need the money and opposed any congressional supplemental appropriations designed to fund federal governmental AIDS policy efforts.
In the absence of presidential leadership, Congress was forced to ascertain on its own how much money doctors working inside government needed to address the AIDS epidemic. The Reagan administration resisted these efforts but refused to exercise an on-the-record veto of supplementary AIDS funding efforts. In the crucial early years of the epidemic, when federal resources could have been profitably spent on basic research and prevention education, federal AIDS researchers relied on supplemental funding in the form of continuing resolutions initiated by Congress. Year after year, Congress significantly increased AIDS funding relative to the Reagan budgetary proposals.

 

[Blair]

Blair, I going to apologize for this ahead of time, you're an idiot. 20,849 deaths occurred before he took action, how you are reading into this fact that I'm blaming Reagan for these deaths is beyond comprehension.


What was needed? Money.

From The Body - - -

OUCH!!!!

Now I am convinced....You and Bob are the same person

 

[poppy]

OUCH!!!!

Now I am convinced....You and Bob are the same person

No we are not and I wish I could smack you harder in some way (not literally). I have never heard anyone blame the deaths of these unfortunate indivduals on anything other than the DISEASE.

 

[Blair]

No we are not and I wish I could smack you harder in some way (not literally). I have never heard anyone blame the deaths of these unfortunate indivduals on anything other than the DISEASE.

smack me over something you said.....Lets' review....

Reagans failure to take action on the AIDS epidemic until 6 yrs. passed and 20,849 Americans had died.

You tell me....What does that insinuate?

 

[poppy]

smack me over something you said.....Lets' review....

Reagans failure to take action on the AIDS epidemic until 6 yrs. passed and 20,849 Americans had died.

You tell me....What does that insinuate?

This conversation is over.

 

[Blair]

This conversation is over.

It was over a while ago......

 

[scooterbug44]

Anyhoooooooooooooo................

So basically we need to be proactive and preventative regarding swine flu, but it isn't a plague just yet.

 

[Blair]

Anyhoooooooooooooo................

So basically we need to be proactive and preventative regarding swine flu, but it isn't a plague just yet.

sorry....