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[machinist] On drugs, Nancy Reagan just said ‘no.’ On AIDS, she said nothing. - The Washington Post

From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
To: machinist@lists.ibiblio.org, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
Subject: [machinist] On drugs, Nancy Reagan just said ‘no.’ On AIDS, she said nothing. - The Washington Post
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 04:20:19 -0500

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/on-drugs-nancy-reagan-just-said-no-on-aids-she-said-nothing/2016/03/11/3f9d59e8-e483-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html

I remember that Reagan era well. The AIDS epidemic was just getting wound up and gays were dropping like flies. There was NOTHING coming from the Reagan administration

about preventive measures the public should use to avoid infection with this new _and supposedly_ little understood disease. Damn near no advice coming from the CDC or the FDA

or the Surgeon General's office. Nothing. There was exactly nothing about risks from oral sex or for that matter from bodily fluids. A sin of omission, but why would you expect otherwise from

such an administration. They could have done so much to prevent the spread of AIDS but I guess they hated the gays and kept silent hoping their numbers would diminish as the disease spread throughout their community.

[machinist] On drugs, Nancy Reagan just said ‘no.’ On AIDS, she said nothing. - The Washington Post, Lawrence London, 03/12/2016
- Re: [machinist] On drugs, Nancy Reagan just said ‘no.’ On AIDS, she said nothing. - The Washington Post, Lawrence London, 03/12/2016