WEBVTT - Introducing Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis

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<v Speaker 1>It's well documented from the time of the Black Death

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<v Speaker 1>in thirteen forty eight that with almost every epidemic, people

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<v Speaker 1>respond to the epidemic in exactly the same predictable ways.

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<v Speaker 1>The first thing they do is they deny that it's

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<v Speaker 1>even occurred.

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<v Speaker 2>Does anybody that White House know about this epidemic?

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<v Speaker 1>Now, I don't know anything about any And then they

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<v Speaker 1>want to blame someone for having caused it.

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<v Speaker 2>Almost sexual promise, gourity is a violation of God's laws.

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<v Speaker 2>We pay the price when we violate the laws of God.

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<v Speaker 1>They then start losing faith in institutions. You know, the

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<v Speaker 1>institutions that were supposed to protect them are now a suspect.

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<v Speaker 3>You can't trust the medical establishment, you can't trust the media,

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<v Speaker 3>and you certainly can't trust the government.

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<v Speaker 1>And at the same time there's inappropriate legislation.

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<v Speaker 4>You had the preachers who were calling for quarantine and

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<v Speaker 4>putting people in camps and tattooing their HIV status on

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<v Speaker 4>their bodies.

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<v Speaker 1>This has occurred in epidemic after epidemic after epidemy, and

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<v Speaker 1>of course we saw it in spades.

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<v Speaker 5>With the aids up at him.

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<v Speaker 6>I'm Leon Nafock, host of Fiasco in our New season,

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<v Speaker 6>we're looking back at the beginning of AIDS in America.

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<v Speaker 2>It's mysterious, it's deadly, and it's baffling medical science.

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<v Speaker 7>It was something nobody had ever seen. Within just five years,

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<v Speaker 7>almost everyone I knew was dead or dying.

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<v Speaker 4>Forty million infected people.

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<v Speaker 6>Is a pay fiasco. The AIDS crisis coming soon only

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<v Speaker 6>from Audible