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I can't remember the specifics because it was literally like 5 years ago when I was looking into it, but what made sense to me was the idea of HIV deriving from cases of the same person being infected with syphilis multiple times. Like you have someone, say Corona (random name), who gets syphilis and doesn't treat it. Then he goes out and has buttsex with another syphilis carrier, say Revo (random name), and contracts another strain of syphilis. This happens over and over again with new partners (Ang, Therealdope, Kaderp, Ja'Mychal, Gunt, RR, -- random names). I'm wondering if a mutation occurs at some point. There's evidence that it could.
The timeline is also interesting. There was a (very) large number of confirmed syphilis cases in the mid-late 70s that went untreated. In San Francisco, specifically. These syphilis patients must've either gone on to die in obscurity or somehow miraculously cured themselves because untreated syphilis will cause brain, nerve, heart damage etc, yet there wasn't a proportional deathcount of syphilis patients when the numbers say there should've been. There were actually suspiciously few deaths.
Then a few years later, early 80s at this point, a bunch of sick people came out of the woodworks and started showing up to clinics and ERs with a new set of symptoms. Gay Related Immune Deficiency. Now known as AIDS. Ground zero: San Francisco. Not an actual disease per se, but a collection of symptoms.
YOU DO THE MATH
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