This morning, I got the depressing news that my boss had, in
the place of a weekend supposed to be spiced with meeting with some top
government brass and functionaries and, of course, some dose of spiritual
exercise, he had in fact spent the whole of Saturday and Sunday on the cushion
of a hospital bed. Though he looked nothing like one whose big plans had been
turned the other way round on the occasion of physical indisposition,
supposedly on the aegis of the excellent brand of healthcare available in these
“highbrow” medical facilities, there were a few glints of evidence of stress
and recuperation on him-slightly sunken eyes, the little droop on his
shoulders, and the merciless consumption of fruits. In his usual gay and
down-to-earth manner, he had regaled us of how it happened, and all the perks
of the story. His words:
‘’ I was terribly sick on Saturday. My wife had to drive me
to the hospital, to show you how weak I was even to drive. When I got there,
they had to put me on drips, three, in fact. Then they started to tell me about
blood and testing……and the doctor started to ask me if I was HIV positive… and
I said what about it…is is a death sentence?……I will just go to Agbalaka….and
that would be it. Look, gentlemen, there is nothing like HIV, it’s a big fraud
by the West. Listen there is a great similarity between malaria, cancer and what you call HIV, they
weaken the immune system. If I had not attended to what happened to me, I would
be dead in the next three days…..and when I went the next day for the results,
they asked me to get away from there……’
Throughout today, one thought has remained prominent on my
mind: can this be true? Could it be we have been expending useful energy and
resources on some wild goose chase that proves more virtual than realistic?
Could it be we are, Hamitic as we are according to both the Biblical and
historical facets of the story, bowing once again, as always to the antics and
dictates of the West? Now I know a lot of people and interests may begin to
throw questioning glances my way, the barrage of scientific and biological
hullabaloo hitting me from all corners and angles even before I finish my
sentence, and that is why I make this my view and opinion exclusively-one which
I am fully, totally and restrictedly responsible for and have a right to. This
is because it is based on findings which have been independently and rationally
conducted, with infallible facts as back-up. First, what else do we know about
HIV, other than that it is a virus transmitted mostly through sexual contact,
and other practices which make for a leeway into the blood stream? How does
that compare to other diseases like malaria, typhoid fever, even cancer, which
is even more deadly, and others? Again, if it is true that it is transmitted
through sexual contact, mostly, are we saying, in all sincerity, rationality,
honesty and fairness, that the amount of infections we record are commensurate
with the amount of sexual proclivity and perverseness actually going on? This
is not a statement made in the negative faith of desiring that more and more
people succumb in death to the pandemic, but with everything gravitating
towards sexuality in the mass media, advertising, dressing, speech, music,
movies, and the rate of the act itself (apart from other practices like
tattooing and piercings which have become like the norm these days) there are
more people healthy than there ought to be. Nobody should tell me there has
been sensitization and enlightenment, for there is little effect of a physical
solution to a spiritual problem. Again, why has there never been any talk of
the disease among our ruling class, and even the actual West, who are actually neck-deep
in the malaise of all forms of unfortunate sexual inventions and practices? Did
I hear someone tell me better management? I close ears to that, because I would
have none of that. Again I ask, why has the politics lingered over people who
have claimed to have the vaccine or even cure for the infection? Before our
very eyes Dr Agbalaka challenged whoever had the full-blown AIDS, not HIV, to
come forward and receive cure under three months, yet the discovery died a
natural death like a trampled tomato stem. One other doctor who got the cure
was murdered in cold blood in very mysterious circumstances.
Is there an ailment transferred by blood contact, that
weakens the immune system with time, nd turns its sufferers into wizened,
weakened vegetables before inevitable death? Of course there is. What is it
then? The answer is I do not know. But it could be anything normal, an
aggravation of a previously threatening condition. Attributing it to sexual
contact does not hold much water in the light of the argument hitherto
presented. I am not a medical personnel; neither am I versed in anatomy. But I
can sure put two and two together, and this line of thought seems sensible to
me.
Ogbonna Nnaemeka Henry.
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