Aware of AIDS
Dear Editor,
I'd like some feedback (facts, opinions, feelings) from McCookites on the subject of AIDS in and around McCook.
While talking with a friend who lives in McCook, I was told there might be a young man with AIDS living in one of the housing units.
I thought about that a while, recalled I knew there was a young man with AIDS who lives in his own home.
If the first information is true, and the rumour is also true, it means there are at least two people in McCook with AIDS. I pity them, but also have some questions and concerns. If there are two young men in McCook with AIDS, does that not suggest there are others?
Whatever the case, I should hope there is a strong effort to educate young people and make them aware AIDS is a factor in McCook and therefore a fact to consider. Shouldn't the educators and medical personnel make an effort to educate our young folks regarding this deadly disease? And, do so in a personal, in your face so you have no doubt, manner! Is such an effort in progress?
If so, let's hear about it among the public via the public news.
If not, pull your heads out of the "sand".
Writer Ray,
Curtis