[speaker002:] you think about AIDS research
[speaker001:] well AIDS is a nasty terrible disease and you die from it so I think that uh they need to look into it and it's kind of like cancer I don't you know how many years have we tried to find a cure for cancer I think it'll probably be as difficult
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh how about yourself
[speaker002:] um well I'm certainly in favor of AIDS research and I think probably the government could spend a bit more money on it than it does I think that because besides the fact that it's a deadly disease that it's a contagious disease so that it's um although it is not killing that many people now it still has the opportunity to get out of control and become a huge problem
[speaker001:] yeah they say a million people are infected with the HIV virus and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh yeah I think
[speaker002:] that's in the world or in America you
[speaker001:] uh in the country America
[speaker002:] oh really hm that's whose figure is that
[speaker001:] yeah and they they have millions I don't know uh I've just heard it on the radio sometimes you hear things that on the radio that you know could be true or couldn't be
[speaker002:] okay um-hum
[speaker001:] uh do you feel like this is a I guess they're spending a billion or so a year on this AIDS research
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh do you think they should spend more
[speaker002:] um I I think they should actually although probably perhaps not a an incredible amount more than what they're doing and I don't necessarily think that they should uh fund AIDS AIDS research and you know in the process neglect cancer research or whatever I think that it would be a good thing for the government to increase funding for medical research in general
[speaker001:] what do you think Doug of Mister Johnson
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] magic
[speaker002:] what right uh well I am sorry that he has the virus I'd um I don't know I don't I think it's very strange that the media hasn't um questioned him more strongly to you know about gay sex or intravenous drugs or anything like that as they probably would for a lot of other people
[speaker001:] do you think he's the hero that he's being called by a bunch of other a bunch of the media
[speaker002:] um well not not really though I mean I think he's probably doing the right thing for a man in his position but I don't think it's anything exceptional that he's doing it's what many people have done already who are just less famous
[speaker001:] you know I took advantage of the opportunity when you know he came out I I talked to my kids about it you know it's something that I hadn't done hadn't done before uh
[speaker002:] um-hum uh-huh well that's good
[speaker001:] I'm glad that Mister Johnson's changed his tune on uh safe sex to abstinence or I I was glad he did that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] for young kids because a lot of kids would have ended up dying because of what he was promoting
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh let's see what are some of the other questions I you don't uh let's see I don't have any friends that have the disease I guess you might might not
[speaker002:] um yeah I do my cousin does for instance
[speaker001:] is it pretty nasty
[speaker002:] and um yeah yeah it is he's actually um he had AIDS related complex for a while and he is now in full blown AIDS and really not doing very well and has various brain tumors and that sort of thing so that it's it's a very nasty thing
[speaker001:] yeah it sound awful is it just that the immune system ceases to function properly and
[speaker002:] um yeah that's that's basically it that um the immune system can at first slow down and you know the white blood cell count goes down which is and that's AIDS related complex but then when things get completely out of control and it basically hits bottom that's AIDS
[speaker001:] and
[speaker002:] and in that case you know people are prone to getting any kind of you know weird cancer that only animals got before and yeah that sort of thing
[speaker001:] oh really