okay
uh do you have any particular um ideas about our funding of AIDS research
yes
yes i think it's important that we uh
either make a special tax for it or implement the money toward that away from other areas
it's going to be such an amazing
insurmountable insurmountable you can't even imagine the cost it's going to cost to take care of these people
and and if they can find a resource of course they can cut the pain and suffering but if anything the cost
they're going to save a well fortune just implementing that money toward that
do you think it's more important than cancer or something else simply because the the numbers are so large
yes i do
oh well cancer the numbers are larger
okay
um however AIDS has the opportunity to become to become larger than cancer within a very quick time
because my thought leads to you know i have uh school age kids
um-hum
uh i think a a a good amount of money ought to go to the education which they they doing seem to be doing
um-hum i i agree
uh because i think you want to stop it before it gets to you know it's not the kind of thing you can reverse if you've got to stop it before it starts
um-hum
something inside inside me upsets me to think that there're there're lots of diseases in in my husband's family there's a genetic disease
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why aren't people making a stink about that and you know and curing you know making this gung ho rally to cure that
i think it's because the sheer numbers i really think it's that
it's a scare also
it is
uh AIDS is a major topic right now it's trendy
in the news it's in everybody's point of view
but until you've really worked with it and seen it
that's that's the difference it is it is
oh i'm sure it's devastating
and and there there is a real scare scare a real fear you don't know
um-hum
you know how dangerous it could be i had answered a uh job ad for we have a local VA hospital down here
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and they said they needed a lab assistant and i'm working part-time now i'm a substitute teacher
right
uh but you know i get called sporadically and they needed this lab assistance in the neighborhood and said you didn't have to have experience i'm really an artist but i figured oh you know i'll find out what it is
and she she very casually said well think about whether you want to this because there are lab animals and blah blah blah and the
um you might be exposed to AIDS in the animals but you know you'd have gloves and this and that and it did make me flinch it did make me not want to do that
well i remember the first time i worked with an AIDS patient i was terrified i have to admit it
and i know educationally wise everything i'm supposed to know
imagine how they feel
right
and it still scared me
sure but i get you know these these were lab animals i'm not crazy about rats to begin with i mean but here's humans and you can feel compassion for them
that's true but you'd be surprised how many nurses don't
oh i don't know
it
i'm not kidding i
yeah i guess it people will do anything you know just because it's a job and they have to make a salary but
i i work in a public a county hospital and uh well first of all most of those nurses there are LVNs because the pay is bad for them
uh-huh
and they don't they don't have many RNs and very few BSNs
hm
so
the care is shoddy
the care is shoddy yes
uh the compassion is low the hours are long and there's a lot of people
so they tend to isolate them and leave them
for a large amount
right yeah how can you feel when there's a sign on your door you know i is it
huh
there there's usually a sign on the door saying quarantined or something you know or
yes they're in isolation
sure
they certainly are
i'm sure a big part of it is uh they they suffer mentally as well as physically
they definitely do they definitely do
yeah you know it it just when i when i see a headline that says that we're giving twenty five billion to Russia because you know they need to eat better and then we've got so many problems at home
i know
and we our debt i i'm just so concerned
what where is this you know my husband says well they're printing up more you know i don't know where where is it coming from do they ask us
i know
where are they spending it i know
who who are i mean where are they spending this money you know
well i don't know how we could spend it when we owe so much i don't understand
me either
you know you would think it balances you know you don't have it you can't spend it but we seem to it's a mystery
um-hum
yes we do yes we do
uh so i guess you're saying you think we should spend more for AIDS research
um i
i'm not i don't really know what we are spending actually
uh that's exactly what i was going to say i don't really know how much we're spending it may be one of those things that takes twenty years to find anyway or fifty
well well i hate to think there's a you know it seems that anytime a bureaucracy works on something they waste a lot of money on administration costs
oh i know
and a study of how to do this can cost millions of dollars
instead of just trying it
right right uh
i don't know um
i imagine
