Fausti ran the same scam playbook during Aids as Covaids.
He is a nigerian prince con artist:
• Ramp up fear of spread of some "contagion"
• (E.g. Pump the fear so much that people are afraid to hug aids patients and they die isolated and alone, and it takes years to undo the damage)
• Publish flimsy evidence of said contagion and say you "isolated the virus"
• Make testing recommendations based on flimsy evidence above.
• Pump the positive numbers.
• Pump the symptom list to basically anything
• Push some high price pharmaceutical with flimsy evidence of benefit
• Hide all evidence of harm.
• Stifle any other research for treatments, especially ones that are low cost.