“HIV” Infection from a FACIAL??

I have a short human interest story for you. This morning, an article appeared in The New York Times about a “cluster of three women” who became “infected with ‘HIV’” following a process referred to as a vampire facial.

At Least Three Women Were Infected With H.I.V. After ‘Vampire Facials’

In case you don’t know what a “vampire facial” is, it is also known as “platelet rich plasma treatment” and, according to Garza Plastic Surgery, “The procedure involves drawing a small amount of your blood, spinning it in a centrifuge to isolate the PRP, and then injecting or applying it to the target area.” I’ve never donated blood or plasma, but this sounds similar to the procedure performed when a person donates plasma, in which their red blood cells are actually returned to them after the plasma is extracted. Basically, what happens with a vampire facial is that the client’s own blood is somehow “purified” to “isolate” the platelet rich plasma, and that “purified” blood is then applied directly to the skin, or injected via microneedling. This is somehow supposed to rejuvenate the skin and provide a more youthful appearance. (Maybe we should stop this obsession with remaining forever youthful; there’s an idea.)

Regardless, a spate of several articles appeared today, reporting on these “cases,” in newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, NBC News, and more, including the NYT article linked above. Let’s dive in. As always, emphasis is mine throughout.

At least three women were infected with H.I.V. during cosmetic “vampire facial” procedures at an unlicensed spa in Albuquerque, federal officials said Thursday. It is the first time that H.I.V. transmission through cosmetic injection services has been documented, they said.

The first time? Apparently this story began to break in 2018, 34 years after “HIV” was announced as the probable cause of AIDS. How is it that this is the first instance of “acquiring HIV” via cosmetic procedure? This reminds me of the case of Kimberly Bergalis, who was alleged to have “acquired ‘H.I.V.’” from a dental procedure. Ms. Bergalis had had two molars extracted by a Dr. David Acer in Florida in 1987, and subsequently “developed AIDS” and died in 1991. Dr. Acer was admittedly “‘H.I.V.’ positive” at the time, but here’s the weird part: six infections were traced back to Dr. Acer by the CDC. That seems highly improbable on the face of it, and indeed, there is some controversy surrounding Ms. Bergalis’s account, which you can read about on her Wikipedia page or by reading the relevant section in Peter Duesberg’s book—he covers her case extensively.

According to the mainstream itself, “HIV” is notoriously difficult to transmit—even the highest-risk sexual practices are alleged to require at least fifty exposures to “transmit ‘H.I.V.’,” and most estimates are much lower at less than one per one thousand. Furthermore, over forty years, there have only been 58 total cases of “HIV” acquired by needle stick injury in the health care setting. It seems highly improbable that one dentist should have been able to “transmit HIV” to six people. It is even more incredible when you consider that, per the mainstream, “HIV” is so fragile that it dies almost as soon as it hits the air. I can’t even imagine the mechanism via which these six “infections” occurred.

How is this related to the vampire facial “infections?” Recall, if you are old enough, that the first few years of AIDS were accompanied by a pervasive panic and fear that “HIV” could, in some sense, be community-acquired. According to Oprah Winfrey in the late 1980s, 20% of heterosexual people could be “dead of AIDS” by 1990. Ms. Bergalis’s case was highly publicized as “proof of concept” of such potential transmission. However, the narrative flipped within just a few years to the one that has been in place ever since (and the one I believe was always intended to be in place), which is that “HIV” is a “risk group disease” and that it is not only impossible to acquire it through casual contact, it requires a Herculean effort to even transmit it sexually. This is how they explain the unchanging demographic characteristics of “HIV positivity.” The effective “othering” of the risk groups is the icing on the cake.

This is why I think that these stories about “vampire facial infections” are important—there is a reason this is being reported on now. There is a reason that the public health authorities and the government-backed mainstream media are promoting this story at this time. This NYT story is actually pretty boring in and of itself, but I do think its publication is significant. Oh, here we go:

Overall, she noted, the risk of infection during cosmetic procedures is generally low. “If you have any concern, go and get an H.I.V. test,” Dr. Stadelman-Behar said. “The C.D.C. recommends all adults between 13 and 64 get tested at least once as part of routine medical care and know their status.”

Go get an “HIV” test! Come on, join the club, it will be fun. You’ll probably have to get one eventually anyway, if you want to give birth, join the military, get life insurance, or donate blood, among other things. We’re almost done.

Five people carrying viruses that were highly similar were confirmed to have spa-related cases. But two of them — a woman who had been a client and her male partner — had advanced H.I.V. disease that investigators said most likely resulted from earlier infections, prior to their spa treatments.

I continue to be flabbergasted at the mental steeplechase course these journalists and public health officials have to blunder their way through. The “infections” were linked because of the “high similarity” between their alleged viruses; yet “HIV” itself is so highly variable—each patient contains a “quasi species;” a “swarm of viruses,” remember—that even within the same patient, no two identical genomic portions can even be found. (And, mysteriously, two of these patients with “highly similar strains” were determined not to have spa-acquired “infections.”) It can’t work both ways. Also—“spa-related cases?” Really? I’m waiting on the nail salon “infections” next.

The article finally limps to the following conclusion:

Investigators said they never identified the exact route of contamination at the spa during the spring and summer of 2018.

[…]

She advised people who receive these kinds of cosmetic procedures to ask providers to open syringes and vials in front of them, and to make sure that when their blood is drawn, the vials are properly labeled with their name, date of birth and date of collection.

“But the biggest takeaway is that licensing is super important,” she said.

That’s it. That’s the end of the piece. They don’t know how this happened, only that it did, allegedly. (Did it really?) But you can do something to “protect yourself”—make sure you aren’t going to an unlicensed “med spa” for fillers and facials—this isn’t exactly news.

No, I think the importance of this article and its sudden appearance across multiple news outlets is in its timing. At over four years past the announcement of the Covid pandemic, many people are wise to the apparatus of fear that is put into place by the public health establishment to control the population’s behavior. We aren’t so easy to control now, four years in, but that won’t stop the fear mongering, from yet another iteration of “bird flu” (sorry, that one’s never going to stick) to this bizarre attempt to resuscitate “community acquired HIV.” The message is that other people and even animals and even spas—anything enjoyable, really—are dangerous. We should probably expect this messaging to get worse and more obnoxious before it gets better. Let’s arm ourselves with knowledge, confidence, and determination to resist this dehumanizing narrative.

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