Historical Parallels Between the AIDS and COVID-19… and Where They Converge

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A year ago I wrote on how Anthony Fauci’s recent antipathy towards generic therapies for COVID-19 had a precedent in the 1980’s with his handling of AIDS. Now after having watched the 2004 documentary based on “The River,” I found even more parallels. What follows is my itemized account:

1.     Role of wild meat in generating the pandemic:

AIDS: HIV infected humans through exposure to “bushmeat” in Africa.

COVID-19: SARS-CoV-2 infected humans through exposure to the wet market in China.

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2.     Role of environmental degradation in generating the pandemic:

AIDS: HIV emerged in humans due to deforestation and roadbuilding activities that led to more contact between forest dwellers and the outside world.

COVID-19: Novel viruses like SARS-CoV-2 are emerging in human populations due to climate change.

3.     Exaggerated dangers that led to unnecessary suffering:

AIDS: Despite limited evidence Fauci suggested HIV could be transmitted through “routine close contact in a family household.” This played a role in the unnecessary ostracization of disease victims like high school student Ryan White, who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion. To this day, AIDS in the US is mainly confined to intravenous drug users and homosexual men.

COVID-19: Procrustean lockdown policies recommended by Fauci may have killed more Americans than SARS-CoV-2. The anticipated overcrowding of hospitals was also used as pretext for relocating COVID patients into nursing homes in Michigan, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The consequences on the elderly in New York nursing homes was so severe that the Governor Cuomo took measures to “redefine” many nursing home deaths as “hospital” deaths. Shockingly, Fauci still held up the New York governor as “the model for fighting coronavirus.”

The extreme measures used to mitigate the disease were based on a UK model that erroneously predicted 2.2 million deaths in the US. We now know the death rate from COVID is comparable to that of the seasonal flu when nursing home deaths are excluded.

4.     Endorsement of expensive therapies with questionable benefits:

AIDS: AZT is the first therapy promoted by Fauci for treating AIDS despite frequent deadly side effects and sloppy research preceding its approval. Treatment with AZT costed about $10,000 per year in 1993.

COVID-19: Remdesivir was singled out as “the standard of care” by Fauci for treatment of COVID despite deadly side effects and lack of demonstrable survival benefit to hospitalized COVID patients. Treatment with Remdesivir is over $3,000 per patient in the US.

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5.     Massive investment in failed vaccines

AIDS: For decades, Fauci was deeply invested in researching vaccines for HIV, but even as late as 2014 a prototype that costed $121 million in research funding was deemed “no more effective” than the placebo. Total funding for HIV vaccines between 2000 and 2020 was $12 billion.

COVID-19: Vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 became widely available in early 2021, but there is no credible evidence mass vaccination for COVID-19 provides a survival benefit and vaccine related deaths and disabilities increased unprecedented levels. Shockingly, Fauci doubled down and recommended the vaccination of children as a strategy for reaching “herd immunity.” Even more shockingly, the FDA followed up by green-lighting their use on infants as young as 6 months. The Trump administration had spent over $16 billion on Project Warp Speed.

Revised version of Francisco Goya’s “Witches’ Sabbath”

The silver lining in this ongoing crime against humanity how how it shed light on the dark underbelly of the medical establishment and made it easier to discern real doctors from the spineless droids that never questioned the monstrous policies they implemented.

How many patients paid with their lives?

How many minions paid with their souls?