A word on HIV/AIDS, hunger, and drugs, by Jan Spreen, excerpted from the transcript of her speech at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, 13 August, 2006.

We do research and say: look how much we care, look how we try to save lives! But, when it really comes to it, we don't give a fuck.

If we really cared, we wouldn't send them truckloads of killer drugs, but shiploads of food and clean water providing equipments and whatever else they really need.

If you say: HIV is not the cause of AIDS, people almost always immediately answer: ignorant!

Now, isn't that quite an amazing application of the word ignorant? I mean, the single person in the world who doesn't hear or read, at least 186 times a day, the generally admitted certainty that AIDS is caused by HIV must be that one and only eighty-five years old, blind and deaf-mute hermit, living since 1953 in an abandoned igloo on an isolated iceberg floating around somewhere in the Arctic Sea.

Anybody else saying: HIV is not the cause of Aids cannot possibly say that out of ignorance. He's a fool, or a clown or ... a very well-read person who knows a couple of things that are ignored by the vast majority of the newspaper-reading, radio-listening and TV-watching brainwashed population of the Earth.

Personally, I rarely feel the urge to call a person who expresses ideas opposing mine a fool or a charlatan.

If the expressed ideas seem to be unacceptable, I simply show that they are not my cup of tea and leave in peace.

If the expressed ideas sound funny, I happily laugh.

If the expressed ideas sound interesting, even if they also sound strange, I ask the person to replace my ignorance with knowledge and comprehension, after which I decide whether or not I want to store the new thoughts in my overall interpretation of reality.

HIV is not the cause of Aids

Is that an unacceptable idea? You may think it is, and, because no denialists are present here tonight, I know you all think it is, but, unless science comes up with satisfying answers to questions like how HIV causes Aids as well as with efficient Aids therapy, not one single alternative approach should be discarded, especially now that twenty-five years of medical research hasn't got anybody anywhere. Don't try to protest, you won't get away with it. Forty million infected, zero cured. You've said it yourselves.

HIV is not the cause of Aids

Is that a funny idea? It is? Well then, give in to that uncontrollable spasm of the zygomatic muscles, slap your thighs, sit back and relax to be able to carefully listen to a couple of ideas that are desperately trying to find a way into your brains.

HIV is not the cause of Aids

Is that an interesting idea? Of course it is, seen the achievements of AIDS research after 25 years of global war on HIV! So let's presume that, because you are the audience and I have a microphone, it is my destiny to replace ignorance with knowledge, as it is your destiny to sit still and listen, after which you must decide whether or not you want to imbed some newly acquired ideas into your overall appreciation of reality.

To be honest, I must admit that, intellectually spoken, the mere concept of a virus that causes a breakdown of the immunity system, thus becoming the mother of diseases, is a brilliant move in itself, a pure stroke of genius. Seen from a capitalist's point of view, that is. Of course.

Indeed, comparable to the cold example above, many pathologies are only diagnosed in patients with poor immunity defenses. But as long as immunity breakdown can be avoided by wearing warm clothes and swallowing a good portion of grandma's delicious vegetable soup, there is no glamour, fame or money at all in it for medical science and pharmaceutical industry.

HIV majestically deals with this uncomfortable situation and some twenty-five years ago an absolutely unbeatable version of the – Cold weather deteriorated the immunity system, germs did the rest – formula has been brought into life:

HIV deteriorates the immunity system, germs do the rest.

What coats? What sweaters? What grandma's vegetable soup? This is a chemical compounds' job solely! Culture conditions are set by germs so that other germs can grow. I can go home to play the guitar, come back tomorrow and find beautiful cultures in perfectly clean Petri dishes I didn't even care to take out of my drawer.

The world is changing. AIDS, SARS and Avian Flu clearly show that germs are threatening to take over global control and from now on the only possible way to face health care is with truck loads of chemicals.

Is that a funny idea?

I don't think it is.

The world is changing. AIDS, SARS and Avian Flu clearly show that germs are threatening to take over global control and from now on the only possible way to face health care is with truck loads of chemicals.

Is it that an interesting idea?

Well, if you plan to make a lot of money over the back of badly ill people or if you are convinced that overpopulation is a major hazard that can only be overcome with genocide, it is a very interesting idea. In all other cases it is not.

Looking at my stopwatch, I see I'm way ahead of schedule. So I propose to jump back in time and pick up the Q2/A2 enigma that must by now have become an unbearable obsession to most of you, and explain the underlying idea of answer two. Explanation which, in fact, also contains the bottom line of this presentation.

Q2 – Why now?
A2 – Because yesteryear's parents have become today's grandparents.

The HIV/Aids nightmare started in say 1981. Today is 2006. 25 years have passed by. This quarter of a century corresponds to approximately one generation. Thus, many parents of 1981 are grandparents today.

More often than not parents, especially fathers, are very busy building careers and earning money and, even if they love their kids, they do not have much time to spend with them.

Grandparents are in a different situation. Professional passion and obligation are growing thin and grandchildren are often infinitely more interesting than books and TV-movies.

Grandparents have time not only to love and worship their grandchildren, they also have time to observe them.

That cute six-year-old little boy. One moment he's the brave knight fiercely facing terrible enemies and dragons with a plastic sword. One moment later he's sitting on the couch with a teddy bear in his arms, thumb in his mouth. Sometimes he seems to be so fragile, so lonely, so lost in a big, big world. It breaks grandfather's heart. And it makes him think of all the other kids in the world, all basically the same.

What kind of society have we prepared to receive them? grandfather thinks. A society controlled by profitable concepts that suggest germs might soon be in charge? A society where truckloads of killer drugs are disguised as health care? A society where medical genocide is the preferred method to control world population?

Yesteryear's father is sitting in a rocking chair facing the couch where grandchildren perform heart breaking scenes.

I am a hypocritical bastard, today's grandfather thinks. I look at a child who has full access to everything a child can desire. And I become sentimental. Why don't I have similar feelings when I see pictures showing children dying of starvation? Pictures of a mother carrying her dead six-month baby, victim of the Nevirapine screw up?

We do research and say: look how much we care, look how we try to save lives! But, when it really comes to it, we don't give a fuck.

Because, if we really cared, we wouldn't be able to see those pictures because of the eye-filling tears.

If we really cared, we wouldn't send them truckloads of killer drugs, but shiploads of food and clean water providing equipments and whatever else they really need.

I am a hypocritical bastard, yesteryear's father says to himself. Germs taking over global control. That is a concept inspired by greed. Only to be believed by the mentally disturbed and addressing intellectual dwarfs.

It is a concept that can only be kept alive through huge planetary indoctrination of a world population that simply cannot believe that they are so thoroughly mislead by the leaders in all domains. I look at my hands. What have I achieved? Nothing. The day I will be the richest man in the cemetery, this dead baby's mother whose picture I'm looking at will still be shedding tears.

Yesteryear's parents often had no time or energy left to sit back and meditate, to observe kids and watch them live their lives. But today's grandparents have. They reconsidered. And they agree:

Germs do not create condition. They follow changes in condition.

Think it over and put some energy and time in an attempt to unravel the enigma of disease starting from the above hypothesis. Many people you call denialists and charlatans are already well on their way following that thread. As are many of yesteryear's parents and former members of the Aids apologists' community.

They reconsidered and they asked me to tell you about their thoughts. They hope that you will also start to reconsider soon. Soon, meaning: many years before the year 2006 + 25 has slipped into the past.

I thank you for your attention.

© 2006 by Jan Spreen

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