Even when I was a Democrat in the eighties, I was mystified by attacks on Reagan for supposedly not stopping AIDS. Anyone with half a brain knew even in the early eighties that AIDS was mostly caused by unprotected homosexual activity. And the spread could have been halted by the use of condoms. But I remember AIDs activists actually blaming Reagan for a disease whose spread could easily have been stopped in its tracks by the same people it was killing. The truth was too hard for them to face: male homosexuals spread AIDS and could have stoppped it.
The way to stop the AIDS plague in the eighties would have been to completely shut down the bath houses.
THEN what would the leftists have said?
A large number of cases were related to IV drug use. Who knows how to stop that?
Wait, I just had an idea...