@Moon @p @graf if I'm reading this document correctly, i'm shocked.
not only is the disease non-contageous, and actually a name for a bundle of different diseases, but it's essentially the name for partying so hard that your body gets fucked from too much drugs (e.g. dementia, pneumonia, etc.).
Basically people were partying to death in the 80s and pharma-scholar complex took some virus that was benign (HIV) and built an entire industry around it. A quote:
> The virus was introduced as fortunate
> fallout of the failed War on Cancer. The next day the new
> virus was already termed, the “AIDS virus”, by the New
> York Times (Altman 1984). Overnight nearly all AIDS
> researchers dropped the lifestyle-AIDS hypothesis to work
> on the new “AIDS virus”, which was already endorsed by
> the US government. The CDC’s director of the Task
> Force on Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections,
> James Curran, was the only one who later announced the
> reason for his conversion to the new “AIDS virus”:
> “That’s where the money is” (Shilts 1987).
unreal, what the hell