Hello, I’m Paul Franks and I’ve written a conspiracy-thriller called ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, based upon my four years researching HIV/AIDS. In this original podcast series, I’ll tell you everything you need to know about the story behind the story, the four-year research and writing process from inspiration to publication, and all points in between.

In the previous episodes I outlined some of the reasons why I believe CMV played an important role in the complete breakdown of the immune system known as ‘AIDS’. In Episode Twenty, ‘Explaining AIDS’, I will explore in detail the mechanisms by which CMV wears down the immune system.

In his 1984 lecture, Fauci (as well as promoting a virus which turned out to be the IDAV / LAI double contaminant sent by the French to the Americans in September 1983) outlines the mistaken belief that a new virus – the virus that became known as HIV but which was called HTLV-IIIB by the Americans – was selectively infecting and damaging T4-helper cells, the conductors of the immune system orchestra. Incidentally, Fauci says they are called T-cells because they are derived from the thymus gland, but actually they originate in bone marrow and mature in the thymus. Fauci is correct when he says that in AIDS, the number of T4 helper cells goes down and the T4/T8 ratio is inverted. I already explained in a previous episode that CMV has the same impact on T4 / T8 cells when a person gets infected. Fauci, and the other proponents of the ‘HIV causes AIDS’ orthodoxy, says that the infection of one type of cell, the T4 helper cell, has a domino effect in terms of wiping out the entire immune system.

As I did not believe the ‘HIV causes AIDS’ orthodoxy, I had to find evidence which supported an alternative explanation as to how the immune system collapses in AIDS patients. I discovered it in Chapter Twelve of ‘The Stealth Virus’, specifically at the end of the chapter, with the story of ‘Edith’. In Chapter Twelve, Paul Griffiths describes how CMV establishes sanctuary sites within the body where it can replicate free from immunological attack. He also states that because CMV is always at work in a body, even if sometimes only at a low level, the immune system never switches off.

Griffiths explores these concepts in more detail in his imaginary ‘Edith’ case study at the end of the chapter. CMV hides in sanctuaries in the body that are protected against immune system attack by a series of genes encoded within the virus. Every time the herpes virus CMV reactivates, or a person becomes infected by a different CMV strain, the immune system responds but always seems to be one step behind the virus. The immune system becomes more and more angry that it cannot evict CMV from its sanctuaries like it does with other invaders like measles. Over time the immune system commits more and more resources to attacking CMV so that eventually most of a person’s T8-suppressor cells are actively searching for the sanctuaries where the CMV is hiding. Eventually, a person’s immune system commits more resources to chasing after CMV, than it does to all the other invaders combined. This can take place over decades, or in seriously ill AIDS patients, over a matter of months.

This has two effects: first, the T8-suppressor cells are angry and inflamed because they cannot kill CMV virus and end up attacking other tissues instead, leading to chronic problems in organs such as the heart. Second, because the T8-suppressor cells focus more and more on CMV, other pathogens (other viruses, bacteria, even vaccines) have, literally, licence to kill.

In early AIDS, people were being killed by CMV and opportunistic infections. CMV’s guerilla tactics do not kill T-cells directly; they distract and wear down an increasingly frustrated immune system, leaving the door wide open for other pathogens such as PCP pneumonia, toxoplasmosis, KS et al to strike. This is, in other words, the immune system overload and burnout explanation of AIDS.

Thank you for listening to Episode Twenty of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please tell your friends about it. In Episode Twenty-One of ‘A Dive Into Darkness’, I will examine ‘Transplant AIDS’ cases from the 1970s.

Till the next time, goodbye and happy reading.

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Fauci lecture 44 mins – 50 mins.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stealth-Virus-Prof-Paul-Griffiths/dp/1477566791 The Stealth Virus

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