Speaker 1: It's well documented from the time of the Black Death
Speaker 1: in thirteen forty eight that with almost every epidemic, people
Speaker 1: respond to the epidemic in exactly the same predictable ways.
Speaker 1: The first thing they do is they deny that it's
Speaker 1: even occurred.
Speaker 2: Does anybody that White House know about this epidemic?
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know anything about any And then they
Speaker 1: want to blame someone for having caused it.
Speaker 2: Almost sexual promise, gourity is a violation of God's laws.
Speaker 2: We pay the price when we violate the laws of God.
Speaker 1: They then start losing faith in institutions. You know, the
Speaker 1: institutions that were supposed to protect them are now a suspect.
Speaker 3: You can't trust the medical establishment, you can't trust the media,
Speaker 3: and you certainly can't trust the government.
Speaker 1: And at the same time there's inappropriate legislation.
Speaker 4: You had the preachers who were calling for quarantine and
Speaker 4: putting people in camps and tattooing their HIV status on
Speaker 4: their bodies.
Speaker 1: This has occurred in epidemic after epidemic after epidemy, and
Speaker 1: of course we saw it in spades.
Speaker 5: With the aids up at him.
Speaker 6: I'm Leon Nafock, host of Fiasco in our New season,
Speaker 6: we're looking back at the beginning of AIDS in America.
Speaker 2: It's mysterious, it's deadly, and it's baffling medical science.
Speaker 7: It was something nobody had ever seen. Within just five years,
Speaker 7: almost everyone I knew was dead or dying.
Speaker 4: Forty million infected people.
Speaker 6: Is a pay fiasco. The AIDS crisis coming soon only
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