Let me get this straight...

[KevinM1]

Wait, Drich's "AIDS experience" was him reasonably freaking out due to a false positive from a blood test?  And he attributes the proper results to god saving him rather than the doctors being smart enough to run a few more tests to confirm/deny the original diagnosis?

LMFAO

Again no. AIDS is determined by counting white cells. HIV is just one cause of AIDS. It is not the only cause. I tested positive for AIDS, just not HIV

Are you speaking of ICL?  Because it presents differently than AIDS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic...ocytopenia).  Low T-cell counts != AIDS in and of itself.

But, again, testing positive for something does not mean you have it.  False positives are a thing.  That's why your doctors ordered more tests.  Severe diagnoses, like AIDS, like cancer require further tests to verify.  One test is never usually enough, considering that actual verification usually means expensive and often painful treatments for the patient down the line.  So, doctors are going to make damn sure they get it right before subjecting their patients to that kind of thing.  And false positives were most certainly more common regarding AIDS back in 1990 than they are today.  1990 was the infancy of AIDS detection and treatment.

Basically, it's what I said.  Instead of understanding science (and, you know, the reality it describes), you have the hubris to think that god saved you because you thought really hard about it rather than there most likely being an error (either in detection, or the doctors knowing what they were talking about) and that error being corrected.

Too funny.