[speaker001:] well Michael what do you think about um funding for AIDS research do you
[speaker002:] well um uh that's something I've never thought a lot about um I've I work in a hospital and I've worked in the hospital for about fifteen years and I've taken care of a few AIDS patients
[speaker001:] oops um-hum uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] um when they asked us did did we want to um keep it the same or uh spend more or spend less I think uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I think right now what what they're spending is adequate uh my for my personal opinion
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker002:] um because I think it's something that's gonna take them a while to come up with a uh vaccine for I don't think it's gonna be that easy to come up with or I think they already would have by now you know
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] and um so I don't know if if spending a lot more money would really make any difference right now I think they're doing the is as much research as they can possibly do you know and uh what about you
[speaker001:] uh-huh well I guess I'm not too aware of how much they're spending right now you know
[speaker002:] I'm not either I'm definitely not aware of how much
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh it's something I've never really kept up with at all
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah I mean I go ahead um-hum
[speaker002:] um I don't know I'm not sure uh I know uh I've always thought more about the disease rather than the the research you know what I mean and uh that sort of thing
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] um if if we were talking about the money um I'd just have to say what they're spending is probably enough simply because I don't know that much about it you know
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I mean I I can see that research is needed and you know definitely I mean it's becoming a major problem
[speaker002:] oh yeah I think so I think so yeah yeah
[speaker001:] but uh I guess the area that I think more about is I would like to see them focus on uh preventing it uh in more you know
[speaker002:] yeah well that's true that's true because um it's a such an easily preventable disease
[speaker001:] right and I I feel like just saying uh safe sex is not the answer it's it's uh abstinence in certain cases and yeah and knowing you know
[speaker002:] um no it's definitely not that's true that's true um myself um um I'm just recently or about to get a divorce
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh course I'm not all ready to just run out there and start dating everybody I can or anything but it's sort of scary
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] to find yourself single again you know and um because you never know what's gonna happen you don't know who you're gonna come across you know course it's it's not that I'm wanting to
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] I'm not gonna wanting to go and have sex with everybody I see but it's something you got to think about these days a single person
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] you know and um I mean it certainly changed my attitude about that in a hurry and um
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I think for a lot of people it has so
[speaker002:] certainly yeah
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] but um uh I know that uh in some of these larger cities they're passing out free syringes and all of that sort of thing to prevent you know so that uh the drug addicts won't be getting dirty needles and everything and uh I don't know I don't think that's a bad idea
[speaker001:] uh-huh drug addicts um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] I know it uh sort of doesn't address the problem of drug addiction it just sort of keeps that going
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah yeah
[speaker002:] but um I don't know at least drug addiction can be treated whereas AIDS so far cannot be
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know so I don't know that I think that's I'm not too too much against the the passing out of the free syringes myself I don't know what do you think about that
[speaker001:] um-hum well yeah boy that's that's a hard issue it really is
[speaker002:] it's it really is it really is they gave us a hard topic
[speaker001:] yeah I mean I I definitely think that it's the drug problem that needs to be addressed but as you say um people I mean in the meantime well someone who's not ready to give up drugs um you know if they're perpetrating perpetrating the AIDS problem passing that on to each other then you know
[speaker002:] um-hum that's true that's true yeah you know I guess if you consider the two problems drug addiction an AIDS AIDS would have to have come first I guess as far as
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] something to uh to do about it so so I don't know um course there's so many things in the world where
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] if you solve one problem you may be creating another you know
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh so I guess you just have to take the two problems and see which is worse and which is the most important to solve at the time and I don't know but um
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] but I've never looked into how much money they're spending I have I have no idea
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and I know a lot of our tax money goes to that
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but uh I really have never looked into it I have no idea um
[speaker001:] yeah I haven't either I've heard you know uh different voices speaking up and saying we're not spending enough and mostly that's what I've heard so I don't know
[speaker002:] yeah yeah right sure yeah
[speaker001:] and yet I know it's um it sounds like big money to me but it probably takes a lot
[speaker002:] yeah I think it is I think it is yeah it does every it seems to take more than uh for any little thing they do it seems to take a lot more money that you would think it would you know but uh
[speaker001:] so um-hum yeah did you have any fear working in the hospital with that
[speaker002:] uh that's one thing I've never really feared um uh I a lot of the my family
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know they fear me working like that and under some some of those conditions but um uh I don't fear it at all um I work in in the operating room a lot and um and of course when we
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh um-hum