[speaker001:] well Charlie what do you think should we spend more on AIDS research or stay the same
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] why do you think we don't spend enough
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] using a restroom will give you AIDS
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but at the same token I feel like heart disease cancer multiple sclerosis where do we put those in perspective to AIDS
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] no I don't and you know I'm like you I do not know
[speaker002:] yeah well I you know what it
[speaker001:] what the government is spending on AIDS
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] heterosexual transmission of the disease than than we probably thought
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] yep
[speaker001:] well I'm in Texas and we have a teacher that died from AIDS
[speaker002:] oh you you all did in your uh in your school school district or something
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and you know we're looking at a situation that hopefully can be controlled
[speaker002:] yeah I know yeah I don't know kind of kind of scary actually
[speaker001:] it is frightening you know because it could be you or I and then what what would we do we'd want help
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] that's true
[speaker002:] or will
[speaker001:] yeah well my mother had a blood transfusion about four years ago and I I was scared to even mention to her
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and you know there's always the possibility
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] no but the I agree with you
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah and I think it's you know
[speaker002:] yep