The “someone” is Mother Abigail who is perhaps one of the most famous posters ever on this board. Her work on SARS and Ebola pretty much are Internet folklore.
What, to be exact, she predicts is that HIV has now permeated the entire world and has embedded itself into almost every culture.
She believes that because HIV is perhaps the most mutanagenic bug on the planet, that there will soon be a mutation among the zillions made daily - which will allow the virus to be transported via cough water droplets to a new patient. (i.e. airborne transmission)
Many bad bugs have this ability to ride the massive water droplets expelled in sneezing etc. It is not uncommon at all.
She continues to point out that once in the new lungs it will set off a catastrophic series of events called a cytokine storm. The research in Spain (cited above) now appears to validate that hypothesis.
That simple mutation, in her opinion, is a worldwide game changer - on a scale we can not really grasp.
It appears to me that the number of families with premonitions of very dark clouds on the horizon is far greater than ever I imagined. Or at least that is the impression I get from the Internet and reality TV.
I hope that helps put a little finer point on the issue.
One early warning marker of a new mischief virus at work would be a sudden alarming increase of hospitalized diabetics(especialy type one as well as heavily insulin dependant type twos) going into supra hyperglycemia and diabetic ketoacidosis.
When a diabetic who has been scrupulous about maintaining his insulin levels and sugar levels finds that his levels have gone out of control; we often suspect sepsis or viral infection because of the rise of his natural glucocortical steroid levels. Stress on the immune system gives rise to increased available glucose; but without the means to process the extra available glucose(producing extra insulin when needed), a diabetic may find himself in serious difficulty.
I know we’ve had a serious influx of DKA patients where we are over a couple of days...almost like a town convention of diabetics. Some have reported recent cold or flu symptoms and i know a flu/ “pro longed cold or respiratory illness” has been making the rounds recently.
Thusly, in a future respiratory HIV plague scenario, the canaries in the coal mine may very well be suddenly massive numbers of hyperglycemic diabetics(even those with historically mild cases of DM 1 or 2) being hospitalized first even before the flu really takes hold of them!
Kartographer, have you seen this thread?