well Charlie what do you think should we spend more on AIDS research or stay the same
well i don't i don't think we're uh spending enough so i i think we should i that i should i think we should spend more
why do you think we don't spend enough
uh
let's see
um you know to tell you the truth i i couldn't tell you exactly i couldn't tell you what we're spending but from what i from what i hear um
from most of the AIDS uh you know just reading about AIDS advocacy groups and oh people like that uh there have been a couple of deaths um lately uh like one lady that was on the President's AIDS committee
um that we're not i it just doesn't seem like we're taking the disease as as seriously as we need to
uh lot of lot of talk about it but we're doesn't i don't know what do you think
well i agree with you i think we have a lot of talk but not dollars and you know we we situation our situation where
yeah
we're faced with people that
you know choose a lifestyle that may cause AIDS but then at the same token there are a lot of people like the children in Florida
who didn't choose a lifestyle
but there was not help for them
right
and i think one of the things we can do as far as the government goes is just to dispel some of the myths
you know drinking from a water fountain will give you AIDS
um-hum
using a restroom will give you AIDS
yeah
but at the same token i feel like heart disease cancer
multiple sclerosis
where do we put those in perspective to AIDS
um-hum
well i wonder what i don't know what the statistics are but i think uh
it's uh the numbers of of people infected do you know any have any idea what they are what they're estimating now
no i don't and you know i'm like you i do not know
yeah
well i you know what it
what the government is spending on AIDS
yeah what what i think is that is that somehow in in our most a lot of our minds it's still a disease that affects primarily homosexuals and intravenous drug users
but what we're finding is that that that it's
it's um also it's affecting a lot more people than that that that there's a lot more um uh
yes
heterosexual transmission of the disease than than we probably thought
right
so
and you know i mean as long it's as long as it's um limited to those
two select you know two kind of narrow areas homosexuals and intravenous drug users it it it's probably gonna get unfortunately sad to say a lot more lip service than it will actually actually dollars
and uh it might be that as it spreads among the general population more that that uh
you know and and in all these stories about these kids who had transfusions and these
oh there's been a couple housewives lately that were you know national news that they had had transfusions transfusions uh transfusions and they you know and they're they're they died you know and left behind families and oh
oh
yeah
yep
well i'm in Texas and we have a teacher that died from AIDS
oh you you all did in your uh in your school school district or something
yeah
well not my school district but it was in the state of Texas and it was because of a transfusion and i think that got a lot more publicity because again it wasn't a minority group
yeah
yeah
and you know we're looking at a situation that hopefully can be controlled
yeah
i know yeah i don't know kind of kind of scary actually
it is frightening you know because it could be you or i and then what what would we do we'd want help
yeah
what are what are you gonna do if you're in an auto accident and uh you had need a blood transfusion are you gonna have confidence in the blood supply
i don't i don't i don't know that i would
that's true
or will
yeah well my mother had a blood transfusion about four years ago and i i was scared to even mention to her
um-hum
yeah
that there was an emergency situation we couldn't give she couldn't give her blood we couldn't go down to give her our blood for her
yeah
and you know there's always the possibility
yeah and and i think as long as it's uh as long as it's still people that are thinking that it's mostly even people that that it's almost like because they're choosing to practice those lifestyles that they're choosing you know that's their choice
that they ran that risk i mean i you know that's probably i hate to say that that sounds cruel
no but the i agree with you
uh that sounds cold cold and cruel but that's probably
as long as people perceive of it being that way i i mean that probably explains the lack of um lack of concrete money and being spent
yeah and i think it's you know
yep
