I remember those times very well. A lot a gays became unhinged because the disease was so poorly understood and there was no effective treatment. So, they lashed out and blamed, naturally, Reagan and the government. In fact, funding for AIDS research was growing exponentially and some really smart people at NIH were working tirelessly to research the disease and develop treatments.
The effort paid off. But you will never convince the nutjobs like this that their loony tunes history is completely made up.
Not good enough, he wanted it NOW, and bought it secretly from janitor who had access to the study medicine.
So he stupidly takes a bunch of it and almost dies.
He ends up finding some combo that kept him alive for a few years, but only after a bunch of trial and error.
Today, in the developed world being HIV+ is considered a chronic illness.
In fact I can't remember the last time I took care of an actual AIDS patient.
Must be 15 years at least.
Blaming Reagan for not finding an instant cure, or anybody else for that matter is sickening.
Hell, among gays, even they figured it had to be spread by their sexual practices by the early 80s.