From the caption of the first photo:
> Here we are in school. That’s Paul on the left, our friend Ric Weiland, and me on the right.
In case you are wondering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Weiland
> Here we are in school. That’s Paul on the left, our friend Ric Weiland, and me on the right.
In case you are wondering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Weiland
Here is another article discussing how he distributed his wealth:
https://www.geekwire.com/2017/remarkable-life-legacy-ric-wei...
The number of times I have heard of this misfortune is sometime truly astounding. A whole community ravaged by an illness that we don't have a solution to, with the government turning their back to it.
Reagan and the US government not only “turned their back” and failed to act for years, leading to conservative estimates of thousands of new infections that could’ve been prevented; they also also actively interfered: for example, Congress banned the use of federal funds for prevention campaigns that “promoted or encouraged, directly or indirectly, homosexual activities”. So a lot of the prevention campaigns became ineffective fear-based propaganda rather than what was needed: targeted education to vulnerable communities about safer sex and needle drug use practices.
Do you also think the government is turning their back to cancer? The reality is if a cure is to come, it will come from private industry (for profit companies).