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There is no doubt that some people experience a decline in their immune system and general health thereby.

The question has always been what causes it. The assumption proposed early on was a communicable viral disease. Unfortunately, this virus has never been isolated.

Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, I recall being taught first that a condom would prevent the spread, then that it wouldn't - and today we are back at now it will.

Except other long term studies on couples where a partner had HIV positive test results have shown things to be … Not so simple, as there was not a single case where the other partner tested HIV positive after over 20 years in the study.

Using additional data, they estimated somewhere in the neighborhood of one in a thousand sexual encounters would spread the virus.

Which is nonsense - it can't propagate at that low of an infection rate. Certainly not enough to cause a pandemic in Africa.

Amd here we arrive at the shellgame.

What did happen in the 60s and 70s was the eradication of smallpox. This allowed explosive growth rates among third world populations with no extant infrastructure to deal with it.

It also meant that any kind of immune system disorders would become more prevalent in first and second world natioms - as in prior decades you would simply get a second or even third case of smallpox which would kill you. Hence the addage that if you got it a second time, it was always worse and often you would get it a third time.

Consider - our kidneys occasionally have disorders that progress with age or develop as part of the aging process. Parkinsons is another such disease. Muscular dystrophy, macular degeneration, etc. These are normal age related issues within our populations.

Why would our immune systems be exempt from similar complications?

When we study people suffering from AIDS, we notice that their immune cells are not properly coordinated and have improper antigens on their surface. This causes the immune cells to attack and destroy each other on contact.

Which is more probable - a super stealthy virus no one has yet identified; or an immune disorder?

The current weird theory is that the virus includes itself into the lipid structure of the immune cell via a form of budding - but, again, without proper isolation and imaging it makes this theory little better than raw conjecture.

The methods used for parsing the genetic code of the virus together are, also, dubious exercises in statistics that would, at their core, be unable to differentiate between virus RNA and human or malformed human RNA.

In essence, I am putting forth the argument that smallpox concealed an entire category of immune disorders. The deaths in africa were largely caused by starvation and portions of the medical community, high off the world endeavor to eradicate smallpox, were hot and heavy on the search for a new disease to be paid to battle. Even if they were of noble intent, their inherent bias overlooked the localized fraud to claim resources for dead people. HIV has since become a conclusion in search of evidence, which statistical analysis of recombinant RNA and DNA processes are all too happy to provide.