Many Sizes. Many Styles
Letter of Triple M from South Africa, to Christine Maggiore of Alive and Well.
Christine Maggiore's Introduction: Several months ago, I received an email message full of tough questions from a very skeptical but polite woman in South Africa. She expressed concern about the validity of our views, and asked what other than HIV would explain the death and suffering that surrounds her. In this recent letter, she shares some observations confirming her new-found suspicions that AIDS may not be all that she has been told.
Dear Christine,
I have been communicating with you for some time, and following all your arguments closely. I would like to share my experiences and suspicions with everybody on your email list.
When my husband died of AIDS last year, I got very scared and went for an HIV test. It came out
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positive. The months that followed my diagnosis were real hell to me. My blood pressure was constantly high, I developed panic attacks, and I suffered from migraines. There was not a single moment that I didn't think of death, I could even feel like I was failing to breathe, especially when I was alone.
After taking my viral load and CD4 cell count, my doctor told me that I would start falling seriously sick at the beginning of 2001, but I refused to take the drugs he suggested. My health was getting really bad, and I was surely on my way out. Then I came across your writings and I started communicating with you. With the encouraging news I was getting, I became less frightened; the stress reduced and the panic attacks and migraines disappeared. I got absorbed in reading about AIDS and I started observing AIDS cases of people who were close to me and noticed they seemed to follow a certain pattern.
The following are some of the cases I observed closely.
1. My husband and I were separated. After I left him, he lost his job, and started selling our property to earn a living. He reached a point where he had no job, no property, no family, and no food and started falling sick. He had no money for medical care, and his girl friend left him. I can imagine the kind of stress he went through. After contracting TB, he was diagnosed with AIDS, and he eventually died. His death was called ³AIDS.²
2. My brother decided to take an early retirement. He had five children and a wife. Due to complications, he failed to get his retirement money. Without a source of income, he could not support his family or even buy food. He was reduced to a beggar. He fell sick and he was diagnosed with AIDS. Eventually, he died of "AIDS."
3. A close friend in the UK who tested positive lost her first husband to AIDS. She re-married and came to live in South Africa. She was healthy without any medication or illness for eight years, until the second husband divorced her. She was left with no work, no source of income, and two children from the first marriage who depended on her. Her second husband held a PhD, and after their divorce, she moved from a first class life to that of a beggar. She had nowhere to stay, no food, she had nothing. She too developed TB, was diagnosed with ³AIDS² and died.
Now I wonder, does HIV get activated by stress and/or poverty or it is actually the stress/poverty which killed these people regardless of whether there was HIV? To me it seems as if the stress played a major role and HIV played an insignificant role, if any. God knows better, but I think that if I had continued with my initial stress following my diagnosis, I too would be dead by now.
I realize that in our age, humanity as a whole is under a lot of stress. We are stressed by family and occupational problems, political issues, poverty, etc. challenging our immunity. Secondly, I realize that our bodies are full of toxins which may lead to suppression of our immunity. Take for instance the so called normal life 'straight' people live. We depend on pharmaceutical drugs for every health problem; every headache, flu, stress, chronic diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, for contraceptives, etc. We are forever pumping drugs into our bodies. The foods that we eat are treated with all kinds of drugs like ones that make chickens mature within a few weeks. Our vegetables that are sprayed with chemicals, our water is treated with chemicals and full of pollutants. Are we absolutely sure that this mass intake of drugs has no effect on our immune systems?
What about the immunization compulsory to every new born? At a very early fragile age, when the immune system is developing, the baby's body is bombarded with all sorts of microbes in the hope of stimulating the immune response, yet we are told that too many infections can depress the immune system.
I am not a scientist, but simple logic tells me that there is much more to AIDS than HIV. I would be happy if somebody ‹especially the AIDS experts) could clarify these issues.
Thanks Christine for opening up the dialogue on AIDS. You have no idea how many lives you are saving every day.
May God bless you,
Triple M
South Africa