re: #141 Interesting Times
By fantastic coincidence…
That was one thing Reagan did wrong, though I don’t think Reagan himself thought much about AIDS till he learned Rock Hudson had the disease (Reagan had known Hudson was gay for over 20 years before most people knew). The worm did begin to turn in 1986, but it took time to get the government in a position to mount an effective response. The big medical issue of 1986 for both the Congress and the White House was actually vaccine liability reform, and the need to spend political capital on that reduced the administration’s ability to take action on AIDS.