| The image above is my own idea of a "novel" treatment for HIV and AIDS. It came to me completely out of the blue, while I was out dancing one night in North Carolina. My friend, Bernie Possidente, chair of the biology department at Skidmore, said that he was almost sure it was a "novel" idea, and getting a grant wouldn't be too difficult. I still think it would be worth consideration as a possible treatment. My rules for this idea were: #1, do no harm. #2, it must be extremely inexpensive to make. #3, it must be heat resistant. #4, it must be easily consumable, ie. a pill is preferable to an IV injection. #5, it must work.
Think of the virus as a swarm of killer bees. Mean, yes. Menacing, yes. Deadly and ferocious, yes. Like the bees metaphor, we know that the virus has only one shot at its goal, occupation of, and replication within white blood cells. To do this the virus requires a healthy CD-4, white blood cell, and enough RNA, Transcriptase, and Protease to be able to hi-jack the cell. So, at least we know its target.
The idea being to flood the patient's system with false positives, thereby allowing the virus to fulfill its biological imperative, in a safe(r) way without giving it the potential for replication. To my understanding at this point, it's just a numbers game. If the patient has a high viral count, he/she will need more than someone with less. It also seems logical to me to assume that contact is a random event between objects in our blood, so by introducing more of these particles, the greater the odds that contact will occur.
It seems to me that the virual shell is the first dangerous part of this virus, in that if it weren't keyed for CD-4 Receptors, it wouldn't be able to get out, and would simply turn to dust in the blood. And without the keys, the viral RNA would stay put within the particle. That's the other beautiful thing about these particles, they'd contain simple effector protiens to cap the viruses RNA, therby ending the potential for reinfection due to collapse, impact, or seepage by the laiden particles.
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