The all too perfect HIV AIDS story

Open thread-ish (question at end)

One of the biggest problems HIV AIDS whistleblowers face is the fact that the “official story” regarding HIV AIDS is, at first blush, perfect and squeaky clean. This in itself ought perhaps to be a red flag, as messiness is an integral part of reality. If something looks too good, it usually bears further investigation. Nevertheless, their all too perfect narrative has only to make a dazzling first impression because few people bother to follow up. After all, it isn’t a problem if you’re not in a “risk group,” or so we’re told. Seduce your target audience and get everyone else to ignore you so they don’t notice the contradictions. It’s a strategy that works quite well in many situations.

I was recently alerted to the following piece that claims that introducing “measures regarding PrEP” in Amsterdam dramatically decreased the number of “new infections” in the city. This is an example of what is referred to as “proof of concept,” a term I hate because it isn’t proof at all. It’s more like a preponderance of evidence in a small sample. (I’m being colloquial here.)

Just as a refresher, the all too perfect official story goes something like this. In about 1980, a strange epidemic of immune deficiency began being reported across the United States (and as it turns out elsewhere, although early focus was heavily on the United States), in which mostly young and middle aged men were succumbing to deadly opportunistic infections that historically only struck the very old or those undergoing cancer chemotherapy. However, thanks to the valiant efforts of heroic scientists and activists (although some did provably fraudulent work ::cough :: Gallo ::cough::), the infectious agent was quickly identified, a test was developed to detect its presence, and magical drugs (but still no vaccine) were brought to market to treat the “infection” and quickly turned AIDS into a “chronic manageable condition” and everyone lived happily ever after. However, as we know, there are many holes in this story, that the powers that be have done their utmost to censor and suppress knowledge of these holes.

Here’s the Amsterdam story:

Amsterdam HIV cases drop to almost zero after PrEP scheme

According to figures from the Dutch AIDS Fund, there were only nine new cases of the virus in Amsterdam in 2022, down from 66 people diagnosed in 2021. 

The organisation claimed that 128 people were diagnosed with HIV in Amsterdam in 2019, and since 2010, the number of new infections in the Dutch capital has fallen by 95 per cent. 

What’s interesting to me about this very short article is what’s been left out. What measures did they take regarding PrEP, exactly? That seems important. Here we go:

With a goal to reach zero new HIV transmissions in the city by 2026, the city of Amsterdam reportedly provided an extra budget in 2019 to make PrEP – the medication which reduces viral HIV load to undetectable levels, and makes the disease untransmissable – more widely accessible, including to people like sex workers, who may have a higher risk of infection.

This is not informative at all. The city “provided an extra budget” for PrEP? Where is the information on the actual uptake of PrEP in Amsterdam? This is an important piece of the puzzle. Have their testing methodologies changed? (We can surely recall from Covid the trickery of testing more to portray the appearance of more “cases.” It works the other way too, not that I’m saying that’s what happened here because I don’t know.) Also, two years is not a sufficient amount of time to establish a long term pattern, especially if confounding variables are ignored. It’s possible that this phenomenon deserves more research to understand what is driving it, but that is the most any responsible scientist should infer from this. (There are also intriguing possibilities that these types of drugs might be interfering with the tests in a way that has nothing to do with HIV, but that is a topic for another post.) Nonetheless there is insufficient information in this article to come to any conclusion.

Regardless, it is stories like this that continue to promote the narrative of perfection surrounding HIV AIDS. Not only is this a misrepresentation, for many reasons not limited to those listed above, but there is also an ugly underbelly of the HIV AIDS story that is routinely censored and ignored.

The ugly underbelly, of course, is not limited to the catastrophic effects of the drugs, but also emcompasses outrageous discrimination against HIV-positives as well as the horrifying psychological specter of believing you have an incurable fatal disease. Putting aside the fact that fully half of American HIV-positives are not on ARVs, and that it is therefore impossible that ARVs reduced HIV AIDS to a “chronic manageable condition” for everyone, a glance at some HIV AIDS chatboards, as well as at the lawsuits including a 26,000 plaintiff class action lawsuit against Gilead for Truvada, indicates that their side effects are no joke.

I believe that the reason so many more people’s eyes have been opened to the fraudulent nature of the Covid narrative (which still appears perfect to a significant but diminishing number of people) than that of AIDS is simply that Covid affected everybody. Thanks to the early “risk group” designation for AIDS, the disease was largely ignored after the mid 1990s at the latest. Therefore, since it did not apparently (I used that word for a reason) affect the population at large, the anomalies were less noticeable.

What do you think of the veneer of perfection surrounding HIV AIDS? What holes do you see in the story, and more importantly (and I’m really curious to hear this so consider it open thread if you want to share), what led YOU to question HIV AIDS? (If you don’t question it I’d love to hear from you too. I love hearing different perspectives. I’m always open to learning.) Was it Covid or something else?

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