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den is taking this approach


What I am saying is that the thing that needs careful checking is this path:

Bianca Carvalho (tranny) -> Bianca Biaggi (Nacho Vidal shoot in Brazil, bareback)
Bianca Biaggi -> Darren James (TT Boy / Evasive shoot in Brazil)
Darren James -> Lara Cox (bareback DAP)
Darren James -> Jessica Dee

This theory says that everyone working with Bianca Biaggi is now first generation (she's worked with RLD in addition to Nacho, and perhaps others). Also, since Nacho worked bareback in the first shoot above Nacho is first generation too.

(Bianca Carvalho contacts are also first generation of course)

Of particular interest is the timing of events. This timeline might allow Darren James to work with Bianca Biaggi after she became contagious but before she tested HIV+. In other words, maybe Darren did get an honest HIV- test result, done to AIM standards, and nobody cheated on test results in that shoot. Darren might not have taken any greater risks in Brazil than he normally takes in LA when following AIM standards.

I got a volume discount on making assumptions here of course, but it seems consistent enough to be worth a few phone calls by AIM to check it out. The assumption was that the hole in the process was with Darren or Lara and that the outbreak had been contained within the first generation. But if Bianca Carvalho is “patient zero” in porn then this outbreak is already at third generation and this wasn’t realized for over two weeks.

More disturbing is the possibility that it’s possible everyone after Bianca Carvalho might have been doing testing to AIM standards. This implies that AIM standards aren’t tight enough to prevent an outbreak from reaching at least three generations. One generation is a lot of people exposed, but three is enough to expose almost everybody. That’s not containment at all. I have no idea what AIM could do to improve: weekly testing or even same-day testing?

Den’s posts that you linked to are from before he & I exchanged e-mail. He wasn’t aware of the post from Smartt saying that Bianca Carvalho might well have been HIV+ at the time of the Nacho shoot.
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