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Originally Posted by WaxOff
I am asking questions to debunk myths based on how the disease is spread versus created. I'll admit that I'm not educated as much as I'd like to be on the topic of HIV and AIDS. But over the years I've heard conspiracies and theories and blatant bull@h!t about what the virus is or is not. Everything ranging from "it's God's curse on the gays" (Bull$h!t) to the introduction of a different Y chromosome into the bloodstream (theory) and even it being a product of government funded chemical warfare (conspiracy theory).
But in the 25-30 years since the outbreak really took off, no one has ever come forward and said "We have found that the virus is created by conditions x and y combined with agitation from z." I may not have a degree in biomedicine, but how is it illogical to think that knowing what creates the virus can help find its cure? Don't you have to know what's wrong in order to fix it?
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There is not really an excuse for you to think that viruses spontaneously appear following the swapping of needles or engaging in sex. You're theoretically college educated. I don't believe that you asked it to dispel the myths of
others.
HIV somehow mutated and spread to humans 30ish years ago (or spread to humans before that and mutated into its current virulent form later). The fact that we don't know the details of that mutation incident doesn't change the fact that it happened. (It doesn't even matter if it was intentional - tin foil hat - or not.) The flu did the same thing, the cold did the same thing. The reasons we can't vaccinate for HIV but can for the flu have nothing to do with its origins and everything to do with its mutation rates and the characteristics of retroviruses. Not to mention the public perception of HIV as a 3rd world /bad behavior disease.